Dr. Erick J Lauber

Dr. Erick J. Lauber received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the Univ. of Michigan Psychology Department over 30 years ago and has been teaching, training, and producing educational materials ever since. His scholarship has appeared in over 100 journals, magazines, and book chapters, and his media products have won over two dozen national awards.

In 2004 he joined the faculty at Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania and has since taught communications, interactive media, journalism, and leadership, both on- and off-campus. He has been a leader of numerous non-profit and for-profit organizations and has won both regional and national leadership awards. Most recently, he has created several leadership programs for young and mid-career professionals and is training more and more people in the basic principles of collaboration, communication, and leadership. With his students, he created a parenting blog at Decoding Today's Youth . com for parents and GrowingUpSucksPodcast . com for young adults. He resides in Indiana, PA with his wife and often visits his three grown children who are spread out across the U.S.