RJ Eskow is a writer, business person, and songwriter/musician. He has worked as a consultant in public policy, technology, and finance, domestically and in over 20 foreign countries. He also held senior-level positions at several major insurance carriers and has served as CEO of two companies. He is experienced in finance, strategic planning, marketing, data analysis, and IT. He specializes in health and medical issues, and has also worked in film and music.

Eskow currently provides consulting services and is developing a start-up company. As a performer, he has been signed to RCEG Records and his new album will be released in 2007. He's grateful he has rock music to fall back on if this business thing doesn't work out.

Besides writing for The Huffington Post, he maintains his own blogs: Future-While-U-Wait for technology and futurism, A Night Light for politics & music, and The Sentinel Effect for healthcare-related issues. He can be reached at "rjeskow@gmail.com."


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Dr. Kathleen Reardon is a Phi Beta Kappa professor of management at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business. She is the author of numerous articles on communication, persuasion, negotiation and politics, including in the Harvard Business Review. She was awarded membership in Mortar Board and Phi Kappa Phi. Her latest book is It's All Politics: Winning in a World Where Hard Work and Talent Aren't Enough(Currency/Doubleday) looks at advanced politics -- what people need to know to offensivley, constructively use politics and to defensively recognize and deal with destructive types.

Kathleen Reardon has also published The Secret Handshake (amazon business and nonfiction bestseller), The Skilled Negotiator and They Don't Get, Do They. She is on the board of First Star, a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit devoted to protecting children at risk. She also conducted the feasibility study as co-principal investigator for the Starbright Foundation (now merged with Starlight) chaired by Steven Spielberg.

Dr. Reardon is also the author of "Courage As A Skill," The Harvard Business Review, January 2007. You can read more at this site. and a new site.

As an avocation, she paints and helps people injured in war or with chronic illnesses learn to also at this site.

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