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Randy Gravitt is a seasoned leader with deep expertise and experience in coaching and nonprofit leadership and has helped scores of organizations grow their sales, profits, customer satisfaction and leadership. He started InteGREAT Leadership more than ten years ago. Over the last decade, he and his team have served an impressive and diverse client list including banks, healthcare organizations, churches, schools, colleges, professional sports teams, and global non-profit organizations. Randy is also an author and has published Unstuck, Finding Your Way with Dan Webster, and Winning Begins At Home.
Claudia Gray is the Chicago-based author of the New York Times bestselling Evernight series. She’s been a fan of vampires ever since she was a little girl scared out of her wits by black-and-white Dracula movies. You can learn more about her work at www.claudiagray.com.
Dr. John Gray is the author of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. USA Today listed Mars/Venus as number six among the most influential books of the last quarter century. In hardcover, it was the number one bestselling nonfiction book of the nineties. John Gray’s books are translated into approximately 45 languages in more than 100 countries.
Dr. Gray’s more recent books include Mars and Venus in the Bedroom, Why Mars and Venus Collide, and Work With Me (with Barbara Annis). John has appeared repeatedly on Oprah, as well as on The Dr. Oz Show, TODAY, CBS This Morning, Good Morning America, etc. He has been profiled in Time, Forbes, USA Today, TV Guide, and People. He was also the subject of a three-hour special hosted by Barbara Walters.
Kevin R. Grazier, Ph.D., is a planetary scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., where he holds the dual titles of Investigation Scientist and Science Planning Engineer for the Cassini/Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan. There he has won numerous JPL- and NASA-wide awards for technical accomplishment. Dr. Grazier holds undergraduate degrees in computer science and geology from Purdue University, and another in physics from Oakland University. He holds an M.S. degree in physics from, again, Purdue, and he did his doctoral work at UCLA. His Ph.D. research involved long-term, large-scale computer simulations of Solar System evolution, dynamics and chaos—research which he continues to this day. Kevin is also currently the science adviser for the PBS animated series “The Zula Patrol” and for the Sci-Fi Channel series “Eureka,” as well as the Peabody AwardÐwinning “Battlestar Galactica.” Commited to astronomical education, Dr. Grazier teaches classes in stellar astronomy, planetary science, cosmology and the search for extraterrestrial life at UCLA, Cal State LA and Santa Monica College. He has served on several NASA educational product review panels, and is also a planetarium lecturer at LA’s landmark Griffith Observatory. He lives in Sylmar, Calif.—and occasionally Mesa, Az.—with a flock of cockatiels and a precocious parrot.
Dan Grech is the founder of BizHack Academy and YBYS. He’s on a mission to help 1 million small businesses grow ten times faster through the power of storytelling and AI. The grandson of a Philadelphia public school science teacher and a LaLiga soccer coach in Spain, Dan proudly carries forward a family legacy of teaching, coaching, and entrepreneurship. He’s led marketing at high-growth startups and billion-dollar energy firms, taught at Princeton and Columbia, and reported for public radio’s Marketplace and The Miami Herald, where he was part of a Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Denver with his wife and two kids—and for over a decade, he moonlighted as an improv comic.
Susan Green is an award-winning journalist. She freelances for Vermont Life, a quarterly magazine; the Burlington Free Press, the state’s major daily newspaper; and Seven Days, an alternative weekly. She also has reviewed films for BoxOffice magazine and written entertainment stories for the Hollywood Reporter. Her articles have appeared in Rolling Stone, Premiere and USA Today, among other national periodicals.
With Kevin Courrier, Green co-authored two editions of Law & Order: The Unofficial Companion (Renaissance/St. Martin’s Press, 1998 and 1999). Her coffee-table book about Bread & Puppet Theater came out in 1986 (Green Valley Media). She contributed a chapter to Backstory 3: Interviews with Screenwriters of the ’60s (University of California Press, 1997) and her short fiction has been published in several literary journals.
Melanie C. Green, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She received her bachelor’s degree (in psychology and literature) from Eckerd College and her Ph.D. in social psychology from Ohio State University. She wishes she could have attended Hogwarts as well, but the owl with her admission letter must have gone astray. Her research explores the persuasive power of narratives, which gives her a perfect excuse to read books such as the Harry Potter series.
Robert Greenberger is a writer and editor with extensive credits in fiction and nonfiction. Having grown up watching too much television, he feels eminently qualified to contribute to Smart Pop’s collections, this being his third offering. By day, he is production manager at Weekly World News, where the stories are even more outrageous than anything witnessed at Seattle Grace. He makes his home in Connecticut.
