Gordon S. Curtis is principal of Curtis Consulting, an executive transition coaching and agency firm. He has helped hundreds of top executives accelerate and achieve success at critical leadership junctures of company building, realignment, advancement, exit, and career transition campaigns. His clients come from top emerging and established organizations and institutions including AmEx, AOL, Boston Consulting Group, EMC, Fidelity Investments, Monitor, Bank of America, GE, IBM, MIT Sloan, JP Morgan Chase and Pearson, and Sun Microsystems. Previously, Curtis served as director of career services and alumni relations at Boston College Graduate School of Management. A sought-after speaker, he has also been interviewed for and featured in the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Sunday Globe, and Fast Company, among other leading media sources. Curtis is a board member of GiveUsYourPoor.org and resides in Marblehead, Massachusetts.

Greg Lewis received his Ph.D. in English from Kent State University. He has taught at Kent State, St. Bonaventure University, and St. John Fisher College. He is coauthor, with Charles Gant, of End Your Addiction Now. Lewis's commentaries have appeared in the Washington Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer, as well as on many Web sites. His work is anthologized in the college English textbooks Language Awareness and The Norton Sampler: Short Essays for Composition.