Dr. Lisa Barron
Professor Barron is Professor of Organization and Strategy at the Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine. Her principal research and teaching interests focus on negotiation and organizational behavior. She has consulted with large and small organizations and has taught negotiation techniques to executives, career counselors, and educators. Her research focuses on negotiation. In particular, she is interested in salary negotiation, and her work focuses on differences in the way men and women approach salary negotiation and on the centrality and meaning of money in memos and omens lives. She has received numerous grants in support of my work.

She is currently working on several projects regarding salary negotiation and the meaning of money. Her research has been published in the journals Human Relations and Career Development International. Her research on gender differences in salary negotiation has been written about or recognized in The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and the Orange County Register. In addition, she has appeared on radio programs for WBUR, KNX, CBS and NPR. She has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in organizational behavior and negotiation at the Anderson School at UCLA, Pepperdine University, and UCI. She has taught Executive Education at UCLA for the past three years.

Professor Barron is a member of the Academy of Management, the American Psychological Association, the Western Academy of Management, the International Association for Conflict Management, and the Association for Psychological Types. She is a reviewer for leading journals in the fields of Management and Psychology. Her doctoral work is in Organizational Behavior from The Anderson School at UCLA. In addition, she has an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA and a BA in Psychology and English from Stanford University.

Allan Elder
Mr. Elder began managing projects in 1984 with the U.S. Army, has over 12 years experience in Project Management related to technology, and has consulted, performed projects, and provided workshops for industry leaders such as Southern California Edison, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, Computer Sciences Corporation, Intel, Corel, Qualcomm, several start-ups, and the U.S. military. He has managed international projects using virtual teams in Canada, Japan, and Europe, and has served as the director of software engineering for technology firms and as the department chair for a technology college. He continues to work with current technologies.

Mr. Elder currently teaches project management topics for the Extension Division at the University of California, Irvine, specializing in the topics of software and technology project management. He has a Master of Project Management degree, has performed extensive post-graduate work in Information Systems at Claremont Graduate University, and is currently completing his doctorate in Organization and Management. Mr. Elder has more than 6 years experience as a classroom instructor, instructional designer, and corporate trainer, developing classroom, multimedia, and hands-on laboratory learning programs.

Mr. Elder has earned the designation "Project Management Professional" (PMP) from the Project Management Institute. He was one of the first dozen people certified as a technician and instructor by the BICSI organization for telecommunications infrastructure. He also has been certified by Novell and Microsoft and is a senior examiner for the California Awards for Performance Excellence (CAPE), 2002-2003 (the California State version of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Awards program). All of the above designations require proven experience as well as extensive knowledge in their respective fields.

Dr. David Hartl
Over the past two decades Dr. David Hartl has been dedicated to creating organizational climates conducive to learning and change. He helps organizations, executives, and managers improve their effectiveness through training and development, executive consultation and coaching, management education, supervisory training, comprehensive training program development, organizational surveys and research, restructuring design, change management, organizational effectiveness consulting, total quality initiatives, team building, stress management, leadership development, managing technology infusion, mediation and conflict resolution, negotiation, organizational diversity, and other strategies. He also provides conference or meeting designs and facilitation services for involving people in policy analysis, decision-search, program development, consensus building, and alignment with strategic and continuous improvement plans and organizational goals.

Dr. Hartl has more than 35 years experience as a project manager, department head, business executive, teacher, consultant, researcher, trainer, and speaker. He has earned a distinguished national and international reputation through hundreds of successful consulting relationships with organizations in California, throughout the United States, and in the Middle East and the Far East. Corporate clients have included Chevrolet Motor Division, Saturn Corporation, Hughes Aircraft, Fluor Daniel, IBM, Digital Equipment Corporation, TORO Irrigation, Polaroid, Allergan Pharmaceuticals, Fluor Enterprises, Coca Cola Foods, World Citrus West, Taco Bell, Able Computer Communications, Ameriquest Mortgage Corporation; Lehman Brothers, Cannon Systems, Packard Hughes Interconnect and Silicon Systems.

Since 1965, Dr. Hartl has taught at the graduate level in management, organization dynamics and leadership, adult education and training, organization development, organizational research, and the consulting process. His academic association with the University of Southern California began in 1976 where he taught for more than twenty years in the graduate program of public administration. He served as director of the USC Center for Training and Development, and chair of the organization behavior department. He currently teaches in the College of Business Administration at CSULB. Previously he taught at Boston University and The Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Hartl is the author of more than 250 articles, book chapters, monographs, research reports, and papers in the fields of adult education, training, planned organizational change, leadership, management, team building, stress management, and psychological and temperament type in organizations. Dr. Hartl holds a masters degree in adult education (1965) and a doctorate in social psychology (1974) both awarded by Boston University. He is professionally certified in the use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and other psychological instruments.

Dr. Brad Killaly
Professor Killaly's work has focused on evolutionary economics, with specific attention to the causes of organization change, organizational decision making, and organizational learning. Professor Killaly's research is in the fields of strategy and organization theory, with specific interests in the subjects of evolutionary theories of firm change and performance and the competitive dynamics of industries.

Some of the specific questions he is currently addressing in his work on the U.S. international telecommunications industry are the causes of inter-firm imitation in international expansion, the impact on survival of the speed of expansion strategies, and the performance consequences of make-versus-buy strategies in a service industry. He is also is investigating the complex relationship between firm experience and survival under conditions of industry disruption (i.e. Prohibition) in the U.S. brewing industry.

Joe Tinervia
Joe Tinervia has over 25 years of experience managing writing projects and publications.  He has served  as managing editor with the Macmillan Company, as editor in chief with ITT Publishing, and as editorial director with the McGraw-Hill Book Publishing Company.  

He currently conducts professional training programs and teaches organization, communication and dynamic presentation classes.  He has taught at Irvine Valley College, Santa Ana College, and the University of California, Irvine.  In May 2006 he was named Professor of the Year by Saddleback College's Business Division. His clients have included Disney University, 3M Dental, 3M Surgical, Toshiba, Motorola, Orange County Fire Authority and Irvine Ranch Water District. 

In addition, he has conducted  train-the-trainer workshops nationally at institutions such as Baylor University, the University of Alabama, Michigan State University, the College of San Mateo, and Saddleback College. He has written numerous articles and has coauthored a number of textbooks.