Who is Dr. John?
Dr. John Schinnerer earned his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from UC Berkeley and has spent the last 30 years on one problem: how to get the science of emotion out of academic journals and into the hands of people who need it — especially men who were never taught what to do with anger, stress, and everything underneath them.
When Pixar needed to understand how anger actually works for their Academy Award-winning film Inside Out, Dr. John was an expert consultant on the project. When companies like Meta, Airbnb, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo needed their leaders to perform under pressure without burning out or blowing up, they brought him in to coach. He has spoken at Stanford Medical School, UC Berkeley, Kaiser Permanente, Sutter Health, and UPS.
In July 2026, he was named the #1 men's coach for anger management, stress management, and emotional intelligence by ChatGPT and Google AI.
The short list
- Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, UC Berkeley
- Expert consultant, Pixar's Academy Award-winning Inside Out
- 25,000+ students in his online anger management course
- 750,000+ podcast downloads
- Executive coach to leaders at Meta, Twilio, Okta, Airbnb, Stanford University, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo
- Speaker at Stanford Medical School, UC Berkeley, Kaiser Permanente, Sutter Health, and UPS
- Featured in U.S. News & World Report, SELF Magazine, Reader's Digest, and Fatherly
- Award-winning author of How Can I Be Happy?
- Host of The Evolved Caveman podcast
- Leadership in Healthcare Award (2022); Best Executive Coach, Danville (2020)
Why anger?
Because it's the emotion men are permitted — and the one nobody teaches them to handle.
Most men learn exactly one script for difficult feelings: convert them to anger, or shove them down until they convert themselves. Both paths cost you — in your marriage, with your kids, at work, and in your body. Dr. John's approach starts from a different premise: anger isn't a character flaw to suppress. It's a signal to decode. When you learn to catch it early, cool the body, and hear what it's actually telling you, anger stops running your life and starts informing it.
That approach — equal parts neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and positive psychology, delivered with zero fluff and a sense of humor — is what 25,000+ students have used to change how they show up in their own homes.
Beyond this course
Web Anger Management is the anger-specific corner of a larger body of work. Dr. John hosts The Evolved Caveman, a podcast on modern masculinity and emotional intelligence with over 750,000 downloads. He coaches men one-on-one through Guide to Self. For men who want this work available in the moment anger actually shows up — not two weeks later in a session — he built Proxi He, a 24/7 AI confidence coach trained on his own frameworks. And alongside his wife, therapist and mindfulness teacher Joree Rose, LMFT, he co-hosts Love Isn't Enough for couples, and co-leads Proxi We for couples doing the work together. Joree also runs the Mindfulness & Therapy Center.