Founder
The Edwards Associates and Strategic Vision
San Diego, California
Darrel Edwards, Ph.D., Fellow ABPP, SM ASQ, Fellow AACP
Co-Founder and General Director StrategicVision,
San Diego CA 1972-present
Brigham Young University 1961-1965 Honors Program; 1965
B.S. Psychology,Philosophy and Religion
1967 M.S. Psychology,Philosophy and Religion
1968 Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, Philosophy & Religion
Brigham Young University 1968 Phi Kappa; Phi; Psi Chi;
Sigma Xi; University Scholar 1965-1968 University,
Philosophy and Psychology)
Pennsylvania State University 1968-1969
Fellowship from the US Department of Health – Verbal Learning
and Verbal Behavior Psycholinguistics and Semantics
Psychiatric Residences
Utah State Inpatient Hospital; Outpatient Clinic; and Utah
State Prison 1967-68
The Pennsylvania State Mental Health Services 1968-69
The National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD 1969-70
U.S. Naval Hospital, Pentagon, Anapolis, Patuxut Naval
Air SWtation
Created (with J. Susan Johnson)
ValueCentered Psychology® 1972 (Theory of Human
Motivation; The Tree of ValueCentered Knowledge™)
Created Grid Research 1968
Created – Autonomous Hierarchical Cluster Analysis 1972
Created – The Love Scale: The Edwards Commitment Scale 1988
Founder StrategicVision (initially TRI) 1972 General Director
Founder Institute for a ValueCentered Life 1989 Chairman
ABPP – Diplomate American Board of Professional Psychology: Clinical Psychology 1978
ASQ – Senior Member of the American Society for Quality 2001
AACP – Fellow: American Association. of Clinical Psychologists 1994
IGS –Felloe Institute of General Semantics 1968
Author: The Rhinosaurus Eats Only Grass
Author: The Secret to Almost Everything: The Secret to
Human Motivation
Author: Love-Based Decision-Making: The Magic of the Why –
ValueCentered Psychology: A Uniquely Different Program
Author: 362 Manuscripts for DoD and Medial, Psychology, and Psychiatric journals on Clinical
Decisions and Medical Performance Quality (outcomes – medical, administrative and customer)
Who’s Who
The West, America, the World, Medicine and Healthcare, Science and
Engineering, Business and Finance
One of the Top 2000 Scientists of the 20th Century
[Worldwide) 1999 – elected by Oxford University International Biographical Society
Tuesday, May 21
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM