Retired Army Brig. Gen. Loree Sutton, M.D. is a psychiatrist whose culminating military assignment involved serving as the Founding Director of the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury from 2007 to 2010. Committed to empowering others, Sutton has more than 25 years of leadership experience encompassing a diverse mix of domains: civilian and military; combat and peacekeeping; command and staff; clinical and academic; organizational design and development; transmedia strategic communications; public policy; global health; education, technology and training. Her military awards and recognition include Honorary Non-Commissioned Officer; Legion of Merit; German Armed Forces Badge for Military Proficiency; Bronze Star Medal; Expert Field Medical Badge; and the 9th Infantry Regimental “Manchu” Belt Buckle. Since retiring from military service in November 2010, Sutton has engaged with numerous community-based organizations to catalyze and accelerate peer-to-peer neurobiologically-based training for veterans, service members, families and caregivers. Organizations include the Trauma Resource Institute, Homeward Bound USA, Coming Home Project, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Center for a New American Security, Paws and Stripes, Equus Medendi, and Soldier's Heart. Sutton has also been featured on NBC Dateline, Fox News and Invisible War, an upcoming documentary on military sexual trauma. Further, Sutton co-founded Threshold GlobalWorks with Laurie Leitch, Ph.D. and developed the Social Resilience Model while serving as Bellagio Practitioner Fellows, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation (project titled "Global Leadership Meets Neuroscience: Building Resilience in a Weary World"). Looking ahead, Sutton’s interest in resiliency extends from individuals, families and communities to the realm of global leadership and national security. She remains passionately devoted to the public health imperative of scaling sustainable cultural change and advocating strength-based and resiliency-informed approaches to leadership based upon emerging advances in neuroscience.

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