Our Authors

Sue Dathe-Douglass serves as Global Vice President of Leadership, Sales and Delivery Effectiveness at FranklinCovey. Sue served as a subject matter expert in the creation and launch of FranklinCovey’s Leadership: Great Leaders, Great Teams, Great Results; 7 Habits for Managers; and Predictable Results in Unpredictable Times content and solutions. Her work and thinking is influenced by the thousands of individuals, leaders and organizations she has partnered with in over 148 countries.

Joy Davidson, Ph.D., is a psychologist, certified sex therapist, author and video-maker based in Manhattan. She is a familiar expert guest on national television and radio, including “Oprah,” “20/20,” CNN News, NPR, “Prime Time Live,” “Entertainment Tonight” and “Montel.” Dr. Davidson is the author of or contributor to six nonfiction books, and the creator of multi-volume self-help videos for women and couples. She is well known as a magazine and Web advice columnist and appears frequently in publications such as Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Esquire, Redbook and Men’s Health.

Clayton Davis lives with his wife in Severna Park, Md. He holds the airline transport pilot and flight instructor ratings with more than 10,000 hours logged in everything from gliders to jets. He has published flying stories in aviation magazines and many short stories elsewhere. He served in the USAF as a codebreaker and Russian linguist. Awarded the Saint Ignatius Gold Medal by the Azov Academy, Russia. After retirement from military service he was a high-school mathematics teacher. Clayton Davis graduated from Syracuse University, B.A. ’67, and is listed in Marquis Who’s Who in America.

Randee Dawn is a New York-based journalist and is a senior editor with the Hollywood Reporter. Randee freelances for MovieMaker magazine. She has previously worked for Soap Opera Digest, National Public Radio’s “Living on Earth” and WGBH-TV’s “The Ten O’Clock News.” In the past 20 years she has covered the entertainment industry for Billboard, The Boston Phoenix, E! Online, New Musical Express and other national and international publications. She also contributed to the first edition of Les Series Tele, a French book about American television, and has a paralegal certificate from New York University. Her short fiction has appeared online in 3AM Magazine and on the “Well-Told Tales” podcast.

Sylvia Day is a former Russian linguist with the U.S. Army Military Intelligence. She sold her first novel 13 months after she began writing and followed that with the sale of 10 more within the next year to multiple publishers, including HarperCollins and Kensington. Her award-winning books have been called “wonderful and passionate” by WNBC.com, “wickedly entertaining” by Booklist and frequently garner Readers’ Choice and Reviewers’ Choice accolades. She is a devout Morelli fan (while secretly carrying a torch for Ranger). Visit her at www.SylviaDay.com.

Vox Day is a game design expert and libertarian opinion columnist. He left the frozen tundra of Minnesota for the sunny shores of the Mediterranean more than a decade ago, speaks three languages and is a member of the SFWA, IGDA and Mensa. He is the author of numerous games, books and graphic novels in the fantasy and science fiction genres and is the inventor of the WarMouse™. For more information about Vox Day, join the spirited discussion that takes place daily at his blog, Vox Popoli, at voxday.blogspot.com.

John D. Day, MD, graduated from medical school at Johns Hopkins University. He did his residency and cardiac electrophysiology fellowship training at Stanford University. Dr. Day is an electrophysiologist at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Salt Lake City, Utah. He previously served as president of the Heart Rhythm Society and currently serves as the Utah Governor of the American College of Cardiology. He is recognized as an international thought leader on atrial fibrillation management. Dr. Day is board certified in cardiology, and cardiac electrophysiology. He has published more than 100 manuscripts, abstracts, and book chapters and regularly lectures both nationally and internationally on heart rhythm disorders. Dr. Day is the former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Innovations in Cardiac Rhythm Management. In 2017, Dr. Day published The Longevity Plan: Seven Life-Transforming Lessons from Ancient China, with HarperCollins as publisher. The Longevity Plan was an Amazon number one bestseller and was named best books of 2017 by the Huffington Post and won the Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal for the best book of 2017.