Stephen G. White, Ph,D

Dr. Stephen White is a psychologist and the former President of Work Trauma Services
Inc., a consulting group he originally founded in 1982 to assist employers with serious
workplace crises. His extensive work in organizational trauma reduction led to his
specializing, since 1989, in the assessment and management of workplace and campus
violence risk. Dr. White has consulted nationally and internationally on over 4,500 threat
cases for numerous Fortune 500 companies, private and public organizations, law firms
and their clientele, colleges and universities, and law enforcement, military and
governmental entities. He has testified before the California State Legislature on behalf
of workplace violence prevention legislation. Dr. White has authored or co-authored
peer-reviewed publications on stalking, workplace and campus mass murder, violence
risk assessment, autism and violence, and workplace trauma management. Dr. White, in
collaboration with Dr. Reid Meloy, developed and published in 2007 The WAVR-21.
Now in its third edition, the WAVR-21 is an evidence-based structured professional
judgment guide for assessing workplace and campus violence risk. Dr. White has
contributed chapters on workplace violence in the first and second editions of The
International Handbook of Threat Assessment, published by Oxford University Press, and
is a Contributing Editor for the Journal of Threat Assessment and Management. He was a
member of the expert panel of the 2012 US Army-sponsored Workplace Violence in the
Military Program, providing peer reviews of scientific proposals to study predictors of
targeted violence across Department of Defense service areas. In 2022 he received the
Distinguished Achievement award from the Association of Threat Assessment
Professionals. Dr. White has served as an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department
of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, a voluntary position, where
he co-facilitated professional development groups for medical students. He is a soughtafter
trainer and a frequent guest lecturer at regional, national, and international forums
for security, human resource, and mental health professionals, campus administrators,
law enforcement agencies, and employment law attorneys.