Dr. Richard Tedeschi is Executive Director of the Boulder Crest Institute for Posttraumatic Growth, in Bluemont, Virginia, where he has been one of the developers of programs based on posttraumatic growth principles to help combat veterans and first responders. He is also Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychological Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he served for 42 years.

He has published nine books and numerous professional articles on posttraumatic growth, an area of research that he developed while at UNC Charlotte. As a member of the Graduate Faculty, he taught the courses Professional Ethics, Psychological Treatment, Psychology of Personality, and Positive Psychology, among others. He was chair of many Masters thesis and Doctoral dissertation committees. He served as the Coordinator of the Masters program in Clinical/Community Psychology for many years.

Dr. Tedeschi serves as a consultant to the American Psychological Association on trauma and resilience, and is a Fellow of the Division of Trauma Psychology and the Division of Psychotherapy. He is also a member of the Division of Military Psychology and the Division of Independent Practice. He is a Past President of the North Carolina Psychological Association.