Traumatic brain injury (TBI)

Steven Schulz was four months into his second tour of duty in Iraq when it happened: he was caught in the blast of an Improvised Explosion Devices or roadside bomb and his life has not been the same since.

Interpersonal communication has always been important to Ed Steenerson, first as a rehabilitation psychologist and later as an engineer and manager in the high-tech industry. Ed’s leadership and team-building skills were all the more remarkable in light of the head trauma he had suffered from a serious injury in his teens. Through hard work and persistence, Ed had learned to overcome the after-effects on his memory and cognition. But while working for a Fortune 100 company in his early 40s, things began to fall apart.