Daryl Schwartz

Founder & CEO

Daryl is no stranger to adversity and the need to press through life’s challenges. Having lost his brother to suicide, he is driven to address the root causes of pain, trauma and mental health issues for first responders, to help them overcome. Daryl envisions a new approach to responder mental health, knowing that not one size fits all and departments need to provide resources that responders will actually utilize. He spends much of his time listening to the needs of the responder community to help build Sessions the way that is most effective for them.

Chief Bryan Roach (ret.)

Chief Bryan Roach retired as Chief of Police for Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) after a long and storied career that began in 1991, when he joined the department. In addition to Chief of Police, Bryan served as Assistant Chief of Administration, Deputy Chief of Administration and served as Interim Deputy Director for the Department of Public Safety for IMPD. Chief Roach transformed IMPD, bringing a culture of wellness to the department by forming the department’s first Wellness Department. IMPD’s Wellness Department was nationally recognized and the core wellness team traveled to departments throughout the country, educating other law enforcement agencies on officer and departmental wellness. Chief Roach is a graduate of the National Executive Institute and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s National Academy. He served as an IMPD SWAT team member and has been awarded two Medals of Valor and the Medal of Merit. Furthermore, Chief Roach was awarded the Humanitarian Award by the Indianapolis NAACP and selected as a Champion of Diversity for the Indiana Minority Business Magazine, awarded the Jake Laird Local Public Safety Hero Award, and the Hulman Health Achievement Award by the Indiana Public Health Community.

Robert Boik

Bob served as a strategic advisor in a variety of public sector roles in his career. Most recently Boik spent the last six years with the Chicago Police Department, the 2nd largest police department in the nation. Within CPD, Boik served as the executive director for constitutional policing and reform. In this role, Boik managed more than 500 staff in implementing Department reforms to achieve compliance with the most extensive consent decree in the nation. In doing so, Boik led the development of the “Roadmap for Operational Compliance,” which is a strategic plan and performance management roadmap designed to achieve cultural change throughout the Chicago Police Department. In addition, Boik achieved a 790% increase in compliance with the Department’s consent decree in a two-year period, taking the Department from 48 paragraphs with some level of compliance when he took over the position to 427 when he left the Department.