Izzy Kalman

Izzy Kalman is a Nationally Certified School Psychologist who has been working in schools and private practice since 1978. He has developed fun and effective methods that use role playing to teach basic psychological principles for solving bullying, aggression and relationship problems. Following the Columbine massacre in 1999, when he saw that the modern world was embarking on anti-bully campaigns to try to rid schools of bullying by treating it like a crime that will not be tolerated, he knew that such an approach could not possibly work, and created a website, www.Bullies2Buddies.com, to teach a truly psychological approach to the problem. He has also become the world's most vocal critic of the well-intentioned but misguided anti-bully movement. In fact, he is one of the world's only critics of this incredibly popular but failing movement.

Izzy has been working intensively since 2002 with Cross Country Education, which sponsors his full-day seminars. Over 40,000 mental health professionals and educators throughout the US and Canada have attended thus far. He is Director of Bullies to Buddies, Inc., the company he and his wife created to produce materials and provide consultation on bullying. He is the author of Bullies to Buddies: How to turn your enemies into friends, and other publications and products for dealing with bullying and relationship problems, and creator of a whole-school bullying prevention program, Victim-Proof Your School.