Dr. David L. Mount

Dr. David L. Mount is the President and CEO for the Mind Body Institute Beyond. Dr. Mount is a mind-body personalization creativity innovator champing mental health promotion asset mapping and empowerment. His resume includes being a TEDx speaker, a NIH Designated Health Disparities Scholar, a NC 40 leaders under age 40 award recipient, a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “Building the Dream” nominee, and a boundless personalization performance based coach. His self-empowerment investment activities range from social justice advocate, lecturer, writer, community organizer, team-builder, professional speaker, and clinical psychologist with specialties in primary care psychology, medical neuropsychology, and medical rehabilitation psychology. He owns and operates a full scale multimedia production studio, has written several dozen peer-reviewed scientific papers, contributed to high profile book chapters, promoted numerous student enhance endeavors, and written a book entitled: Waking Up in College. Dr. Mount is a sought-after speaker for national meetings and is a winner of mentoring, teaching, and service awards in the states of Alabama, Georgia, Missouri, and North Carolina. He was an undergraduate student at Alabama State University where he received his B.S. in Psychology and Minor in Sociology in 1994. From there he continued his education at Argosy University where he received his M.A. in clinical Psychology and later accomplished his doctoral studies in Clinical Psychology in 2001. From 2001 to 2003 Dr. Mount pursued his residency (Clinical Neuropsychology, NeuroRehabilitation Psychology) at the University of Missouri. In 2005 he started a faculty appointment at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and was one of the first faculty member recruited into the Maya Angelou Center. He holds several certificates including Substance Abuse Professional, North Carolina State Board of Examiners of Practicing Psychologists, Board Certified Health Service Provider in Psychology, American Board of Disability Analysts- Disability Analysts & fellow, National Academy of Neuropsychology- Affiliate level status, Behavioral Medicine (University of Pittsburgh), Chronic Disease: A focus on health behavior (University of Pittsburgh), and Neuroimaging (University of Pittsburgh & Carnegie Mellon). He has held postdoctoral and faculty positions at several institutions. Dr. Mount has lived in Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Missouri, Illinois and North Carolina.