Curtis Frye is the author of more than 30 books, including Microsoft Excel 2016 Step by Step and Microsoft OneNote Step by Step for Microsoft Press. He has also created and recorded more than 60 online training courses for lynda.com and LinkedIn Learning, including Office 365 for Mac: Excel Essential Training, Excel: Scenario Planning and Analysis, Excel: Statistical Process Control, and Microsoft Excel: Using Solver for Decision Analysis.

Curt is a popular conference speaker, offering his Improspectives® program on applying the techniques of improvisational theater to business and life as well as Which Game Are You Playing?, which applies lessons from the strategies and tactics of popular games to business. He earned his undergraduate degree in political science in 1990 from Syracuse University and will receive his MBA from the University of Illinois in December 2018.

Curt lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife, Virginia.

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