Stephen Robinson, MA, Peak Performance and Personal Optimization Trainer

Chad Storlie, USAR, SF, tours in Bosnia and Iraq

Dan Taslitz, USMC, Reconnaissance, Tour in Iraq

Steve Robinson, USA, Special Forces, Gulf War veteran

Robert Scaer, MD, author of The Body Bears the Burden and The Trauma Spectrum

David Berceli, PhD, Founder of Trauma Release Exercises

Stephen Robinson, MA, CEO of Magis Group LLC directs the planning and development of training programs on force optimization and stress mitigation expressly for military personnel, their families and the care providers who serve them. Mr. Robinson also facilitates optimal performance segments of trainings, teaming with military trainers.

Mr. Robinson received his BA in Political Science and History from Hampden-Sydney College (VA) and his MA in Political Science from University of Richmond. He has taught college Political Science and studied US National Security issues, foreign affairs, and international conflict under the tutelage of Lt. General Sam Wilson, USA (ret’d), completing his Master's Thesis on U.S. Military Special Operations Forces. Mr. Robinson also studied International Relations in the doctoral program at the Claremont Graduate School in California.

Mr. Robinson has served twenty years as a corporate trainer, peak performance coach and consultant and has provided tools to assist his clients in overcoming self-limiting behaviors and to maximize their potential.

Chad Storlie, USAR, SF, holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) and is a United States Army Reserve Special Forces (“Green Beret”) officer with over 17 years of Active Duty and Reserve Service. He has held a variety of Command and Staff assignments in Infantry, Special Forces, and Joint Headquarters units. Storlie’s initial duty assignment was as an Infantry Officer with the 2nd Infantry Division and the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). Following selection as a Special Forces Officer, he served a total of six years on active duty with two Special Forces Groups in the positions of: SFOD-A Commander, Support Company Commander, and Battalion Logistics Officer. His most recent assignment was in Baghdad, Iraq (11 months) as the Ground Plans Director for a Special Operations Task Force supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Storlie has been awarded the following tabs and decorations: Combat Infantryman’s Badge, Bronze Star Medal, Parachutist Badge, Global War on Terrorism – Expeditionary Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Air Assault Badge, Ranger Tab, Special Forces Tab, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Armed Forces Reserve Medal with “M” device, and the Global War on Terrorism – Service Medal.

Storlie is a graduate of the following military schools: the US Army Command and General Staff College, the Special Forces Officer’s Qualification Course, the Infantry Officer Advanced Course, and the US Army Ranger School. He has his MBA from Georgetown University and has been published in Infantry Magazine, Military Review, and Special Warfare.

Dan Taslitz, USMC, Reconnaissance, Tour in Iraq, served seven years in the United States Marine Corps as a Reconnaissance Team Leader. This included a combat tour in Iraq where his team's missions included reconnaissance and surveillance, counter-IDF, counter-IED, cache search and destroy, direct action assaults and raids, HVT search and detentions, counter-ambush and presence patrols. Among Sgt Taslitz's awards are the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal with combat 'V' device and the Combat Action Ribbon. As a Reconnaissance Marine he is also qualified in Airborne operations and as a Marine Combatant Diver.

Prior to entering military service, Mr. Taslitz spent ten years as a senior faculty member with the National Outdoor Leadership School. In this capacity he was an expedition leader in remote wilderness settings around the globe that included operating in mountains, deserts and oceans throughout North America, in Central America and in Africa. He is an experienced high-altitude mountaineer and wilderness guide.

Steve Robinson, USA, served twenty years in the Army. He served in the Ranger Battalion, 24th Infantry Division, 1/10th Special Forces, 8th Infantry Division, Ranger Instructor 6th Ranger Training Brigade, Long Range Surveillance Detachment Team Leader in Korea, ROTC Instructor, and finally in the Office of the Secretary of Defense as a briefer and analyst on health effects which arose out of the 1991 Gulf War.

Robert Scaer, MD is Board Certified in Neurology and has been in practice for 33 years, twenty of those as Medical Director of Rehabilitation Services at the Mapleton Center in Boulder, CO. Dr. Scaer received his B.A. in Psychology, and his M.D. degree at the University of Rochester. His primary areas of interest and expertise are the fields of brain injury and chronic pain, and more recently the study of traumatic stress and its role in physical symptoms and diseases

Dr. Scaer has lectured extensively on these topics, and has published several articles on the whiplash syndrome and other somatic syndromes of traumatic stress. He is the author of The Body Bears the Burden: Trauma, Dissociation and Disease, presenting a new theory of dissociation and its role in many diseases, and recently published, The Trauma Spectrum: Hidden Wounds and Human Resiliency. He is currently retired from clinical medical practice, and continues to write, lecture and teach.

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David Berceli, PhD is the founder and CEO of Trauma Recovery Assessment & Prevention Services (TRAPS © 1998). Fluent in Arabic, Mr. Berceli has lived in nine countries and provided specialized trauma recovery assistance to international and local organizations whose employees are living and working in trauma inducing environments. As a trauma consultant for the past 15 years, he has designed and implemented comprehensive and individualized trauma recovery, stress management and conflict resolution programs for International Relief Agencies, Government and Non-Government Organizations (NGO) whose staff are living and working in trauma inducing environments. Mr. Berceli is a Clinical Social Worker (MSW), Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT), Certified Bio Energetics Therapist (CBT), and Spiritual Director (MS).

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