Perry Good is a popular speaker, trainer, corporate coach, and author. She is known for her interactive, entertaining style and her broad knowledge in the fields of applied psychology and education. She received her Master’s Degree in educational anthropology from New York University, and worked closely for many years with Dr. William Glasser as a senior faculty member of the William Glasser Institute. She is a founding member and a senior faculty member of the International Association for Applied Control Theory (IAACT). Perry has conducted more than 2,000 seminars, workshops, and keynote speeches in the United States, Canada, Australia, Indonesia, Croatia, Norway, and Slovenia. Her audiences have included school teachers, administrators, counselors, mental health and social services personnel, youth services providers, drug-abuse prevention specialists, relief workers in war-torn countries, and corporate executives and managers. A native of North Carolina, she has lived in France, San Francisco (where she worked on “Sesame Street”), and New York City. She now lives in Chapel Hill with her husband, who is an artist and publisher. Their daughter, a social worker, also lives in Chapel Hill with her husband. Perry Good is the author of In Pursuit of Happiness,Helping Kids Help Themselves, Overall Direction, It’s Finally OK to Be the Boss, and co-author of A Connected School.