I am a recovering "workaholic"—that's "workaholic", not "alcoholic. Earning my Ph.D. in Mass Communications Research and Social Psychology from Syracuse University's Newhouse School during a time of turmoil and social unrest known to us Boomers as the 60's and 70's I walked the streets of our nation's most impoverished neighborhoods and joined the War on Poverty, but Poverty won. Moving on to the State University of New York and a combined 42 year career I became a recognized management and organizational development consultant, a professor, System Vice Provost and University Vice President. I have been invited to the Whitehouse and sent to the Doghouse. My team and I were awarded more than $600 million dollars from government and foundations to make our communities, country and nations around the world better custodians of their peoples' futures. I am now happily retired and doing what I "want" to do, not what others "tell me to do." That is writing, consulting and speaking, hurtling down snow covered mountains as a full time ski instructor, sailing the clear waters of Lake Champlain, riding my bicycle; and, always, always seeking my next adventure, but most of all enjoying the ride wherever it takes me.