Rosalene Glickman, Ph.D. is the creator and author of Optimal Thinking, hailed by academia and the media as "the successor to positive thinking" and the essential ingredient for "personal, interpersonal, and organizational optimization with best practices."

Dr. Glickman is the President of OptimalThinking.com, a division of The World Academy of Personal Development Inc., based in Century City, Los Angeles. She has provided training and consulting for numerous organizations including Johnson & Johnson, BP, U.S. Army, Warner Bros., Young Presidents' Organization, California State University, Fullerton (School of Business Administration), Mensa, National Australia Bank, Internal Revenue Service, The Australian Institute of Management, and Air New Zealand.

Rosalene has been featured on Bloomberg TV, Fox News Channel, CBS Weekend Magazine, New York Times, Association Management Magazine, Government Executive Magazine, Inc magazine, Business Review Weekly, Australian Business Magazine, The Australian, Personal Success Magazine, Successful Selling and Managing Magazine, L.A. Weekly, and the list goes on.

Dr. Glickman is the recipient of the "Woman of the Year" award for National Business Women's Week in Hollywood. She has been nominated for special recognition by Queen Elizabeth II for Australia's highest award, The Order of Australia.

Dr. Glickman, who was born in Australia, lives in Los Angeles. She has earned a Ph.D. in Psychology, a Teaching diploma and a degree in Business Administration.

Gordon L. Patzer, Ph.D. is currently dean of the Walter E. Heller College of Business Administration at Roosevelt University in Chicago, and tenured professor. Earlier, California State University awarded him lifetime designation as Professor Emeritus.

After earning his Ph.D., Dr. Patzer held executive-level positions in strategy for consumer / audience behavior in the primetime programming division of CBS Television Network and the movie industry division of Saatchi & Saatchi. As an entrepreneur, he started two small businesses—a talent booking agency and an employment agency.

Dr. Patzer is respected and recognized internationally for his expertise in the psychology and sociology of physical attractiveness. Hundreds of researchers and scholars formally cite his published analyses and perspectives, and scores of writers for popular mass media have published interview quotes. Dr. Patzer has published five books and 25 research articles. His most recent book, The Power and Paradox of Physical Attractiveness (2006) is published by BrownWalker.

Marvin J. Wolf has written as a professional since 1965, and his byline has appeared in periodicals and bookstores in at least 132 nations. After military service as a combat photographer, company commander and public information officer, Wolf served in employee communications management and in several advertising creative positions for organizations including Foot Cone, Wells Rich Greene, Northrop, Transamerica, and Avco. Self-employed since 1978, he is the author, co-author or ghost writer of a dozen books and hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles, as well as of marketing literature, collateral advertising, and business materials. Mr. Wolf was accredited by the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) in 1977.

Wolf lectured several semesters in the School of Communications at California State University, Fullerton. He has organized, moderated and/or served on dozens of panels at writers conferences, and has taught a broad panoply of writing skills at workshops and seminars. He served four terms as president of Independent Writers of Southern California, and three years as director of professional development.

The American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) honored Wolf's service as mentor to a generation of professional writers with their prestigious Robert C. Anderson lifetime achievement award in 1994. He was chosen ASJA runner-up Author of The Year in 1995. Wolf's writing has been honored also by the Greater Los Angeles Area Press Club, the US Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association, the Orange County [California] Advertising Federation, the IABC, the Southern California Business Communicators, and the Pacific Industrial Communicators Association.