Dr. Ken Druck

Recipient of the prestigious Distinguished Contribution to Psychology and Visionary Leadership awards, Dr. Ken Druck has inspired and guided audiences, readers, coaching/consulting clients, and the general public for over 40 years. His books, Courageous Aging: Your Best Years Ever Reimagined, Raising an Aging Parent: Guidelines for Families in the Second Half of Life, and The Real Rules of Life made it onto the Amazon Best Seller’s List. His new book, How We Go On: Self-Compassion, Courage and Gratitude on the Path Forward, touted by Katie Couric, Daniel Burrus and Oasis President/CEO, Simona Valancuite as a “must read,” comes out Sept. 4th.

Ken was recently on the cover of The Costco Connection and Aging Well magazines and his work is featured regularly on CNN, PBS, network specials as well as in the nation’s top newspapers, podcasts, and social media. Ken was voted “Best of YPO and gives keynote speeches for conferences and audiences worldwide, including The United Nations, Harvard School of Public Health, Rotary and California Women’s Conference. Ken is also a trainer/advisor for the Dept. of Psychiatry at the UCSD School of Medicine.

A specialist in healing after loss, family relationships, and resilience, Ken has helped countless individuals, couples, families, organizations, and communities turn their greatest challenges, changes, setbacks and losses into opportunities for becoming the better, stronger, smarter version of themselves. To honor his 21-year-old daughter, Jenna, Dr. Ken founded the Jenna Druck Center in 1996. The Center’s Families Helping Families program assisted countless thousands of bereaved families, including those who lost loved ones at 9-11, Sandy Hook and Columbine. The Center’s Spirit of Leadership program helped over 18,000 young women become leaders in their own lives and communities.

Druck Enterprises Inc. and Ken’s home are in Del Mar, California where he lives with his beloved Lisette only a few miles from his daughter, Stefie, twin grandsons, and son-in-law, Tony.