Steve Stockdale serves as the Executive Director for the Institute of General Semantics, headquartered in Fort Worth since 2004. A former Trustee of the Institute, he has taught General Semantics at Institute-sponsored seminars since 1996. He contributes regularly to ETC: A Review of General Semantics, a quarterly journal published since 1943.

Steve graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1976 and was first exposed to the field of General Semantics while taking a graduate class at TCU in 1979. After completing active duty as an instructor navigator, he worked nineteen years for Texas Instruments, Raytheon, and Rockwell-Collins in project management and business strategy. In 2001, he initiated a major career transition that was documented as one of the success studies in the 2005 book Capitalizing on Career Chaos by Dr. Helen Harkness.

B.S. Air Force Academy