Warren H. Chaney, Ph.D.

Dr. Warren H. Chaney is a writer, artist, filmmaker, behavioral scientist and businessman. For more than 34 years, Fortune 500 companies and other large private and governmental organizations used his research for memory improvement and information retention skills. Aside from his professional work in the areas of behavioral science, Dr. Chaney is a highly experienced filmmaker having written and sold seventeen screenplays, produced and had released nine feature films and directed seven others. He has produced and directed more than 150 episodic television and commercial productions and in 2000, his “World in Crisis” television miniseries received critical acclaim in the national press. He had earlier, received very favorable reviews for his two-hour network broadcast special titled, “America, A Call to Greatness,” starring Charlton Heston, Peter Graves, Rita Moreno and Mickey Rooney.

During his career, Chaney has worked with and directed such well-known actors as Richard Roundtree, Dick Van Patten, Jane Russell, Hugh O'Brian, Rita Morino, Chris Makepeace, Gene Autry, and Tia Carrera. Dr. Chaney has received considerable recognition and numerous industry awards for his producing, directing and writing. Academically, he was selected in 2009 as an “Outstanding Alumni” by North Texas State University where he had completed his doctorate and in 2014, received the same recognition from his undergraduate alma mater, Austin Peay State University.

Chaney’s publications include twenty-four books (with five best sellers) and over 186 articles for professional journals and magazines including entries for Collier's Encyclopedia. He has been included in numerous "non-paid" bibliographies including, "Who's Who in the South and Southwest", "Who's Who in Health Care" and the "International Bibliographer's Index". Dr. Chaney has been featured in national publications and mass media to include "Good Morning America", "Real People", "P.M. Magazine", A.B.C. Radio, and the "C.B.S. Weekend News". His films have won awards from competitions such as The New York Film Festival, Versailles Film Festival, and CineCon '92. His personal film achievement awards include ones for "Best Original Screenplay" and "Best Director".

As an artist, Chaney has provided illustrations for many book and magazines including full color published art in Remington-Collier's two volume set, The Space Patrol Chronicles. He has sculpture artwork on display in London, the University of Minnesota and in 2014 and 2015, on tour with the London Sherlock Holmes Society's traveling exhibit.

Dr. Chaney’s background in behavioral science and management includes major executive positions with national companies such as the Frito Lay, Inc., Western Company of North America, and World Trade Imports Incorporated. For ten years, he was a professor of management at a major university while managing one of the nation’s largest independent management consultant firms. As a consultant, Chaney’s clients included companies and organizations as NASA, Bell Telephone, Hoffman-LaRoche, Humana Corporation, Diamond Shamrock, Celanese Chemical Corporation, The Joint U.S. House and Senate Labor Management Sub-Committee, and over 200 others.

In 1996, Dr. Chaney was invited to join the Board of Directors of Profit Financial Corporation (which he did), one of the nation’s largest entity planner and business education organizations. He also served on the Board of Directors for B.C.I., a prestigious international financial law firm, and Frontier GeoSciences, Inc., a nationally recognized corporate leader in environmental reclamation.

Chaney retired from film and television in 2005 and assumed the C.E.O. position at the Mind Technologies Institute, a national corporation specializing in the preservation of brain health as well as the research and enhancement of cognitive mental functions. He left the position shortly after the Institute sold to the Excel Corporation in November of 2012. He returned to his writing and has since written and had published, five novels and 28 magazine articles. In 2015, he was sitting on two national boards of directors.

Dr. Chaney originally hails from Kentucky, has a Ph.D. in Management/Behavioral Science, an M.B.A. with a concentration in Finance and an undergraduate double Bachelors Degree in both Marketing and Speech and Theatre. He is married and has five children.