Dr. Susan B. Lord is the Executive Director of the Center for Peace through Culture, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping people flourish through integrative experiential education. With her extensive background in curriculum development and teaching, she specializes in the intersection of western science and eastern philosophy to develop new models of education and public health. She enjoys writing and has lectured in a variety of public and professional forums throughout the country.

The Center’s signature program is called LifeSchoolTM, developed to address the overwhelming stress experienced by school teachers and students. Teachers, working in small groups, learn skills that build resilience and calm which can then be taught to their students. Resilient teachers foster resilient students. The program results in more peaceful, healthy and rewarding lives for the entire school community.

Dr. Lord has a consultative medical practice in holistic lifestyle medicine and psychospiritual counseling to inspire and empower people to live healthy, meaningful lives. She teaches a mindfulness approach to life, which integrates mind, body, heart and spirit. From 2014 to the present, she has also worked in addiction medicine using a holistic approach.