Our Authors

Coach consultant, former CEO and author C. James Jensen began his career as a salesman with Encyclopedia Britannica in his senior year of college. He is an active member of the World Presidents’ Organization and serves on the board of directors at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Aspen University and Sugarmade, Inc., a sustainable organization that manufactures 100% tree-free paper products.

C. RAJSHEKHAR RAO is a sports writer with the international news agency, The Associated Press. He has in the past written for prominent Indian newspapers like The Hindu, The Indian Express and Daily News and Analysis. AYAZ MEMON, one of India’s most prolific journalists, brings with him 33 years of experience in sports writing. He started his career covering sports and went on to edit newspapers like Mid-Day, Bombay Times and DNA as well as magazines like Sportsweek. Ayaz was also sports editor for the Times of India and the Independent at various stages. He is currently consulting editor with NewsX.

C. Richard Weylman, Chairman of Weylman Consulting Group and CEO of The Weylman Center for Excellence in Practice Management, is a highly sought-after sales and marketing consultant, speaker, and media expert. His writings have been featured in Investment Advisor, Fundfire, NALU, GAMA News Journal, and on www.wsj.com and www.forbes.com.

CAREY D. LOHRENZ was one of the first female F-14 Tomcat fighter pilots in the US Navy. Lohrenz has translated her leadership and strategy experience in the Navy to help top business leaders of Forbes Global 2000 and Fortune 500 companies supercharge their performance in today’s competitive business environments, adapt strategies under pressure, reduce errors, and overcome obstacles along the way.

CARLY FIORINA is a passionate advocate for entrepreneurship, innovation, and effective leadership. In 1999, during the worst technology recession in twenty-five years, Carly was recruited to lead Hewlett-Packard (HP). As she refocused the company on innovation and market leadership, revenues grew, innovation tripled, growth quadrupled, and HP grew to become the eleventh largest company in the US.

Carmela DiClemente is a former BBC producer who has worked with top names in the UK radio business, including Claudia Winkleman, Richard Hammond, Zoë Ball and Dale Winton.

Chad Parkhill is a writer and bartender who lives in Melbourne, Australia. His written work has appeared in a number of literary journals and websites including the UK’s The Quietus.

Chandresh Bhardwaj is a seventh-generation lineage holder from a family of Indian gurus practicing the Tantric tradition. He conducts talks all over the globe, including Sweden, The Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Belgium, Canada and the US. He is the founder of the Break the Norms Movement and the not-for-profit Uncensored Spirituality Foundation.

Charles and Mary Lamb interweave the words of Shakespeare with their own to bring 20 of his best plays to the young reader. They collaborated on several books for children, publishing in 1807 their famous Tales from Shakespeare.

CHARLES DICKENS was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England. The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. When the family fortunes improved, Dickens went back to school, after which he became an office boy, a freelance reporter, and finally an author.

CHARLES F. ANDREWS was a close friend of both Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore. An Anglican clergyperson, he was the only person to call Gandhi by the nickname “Mohan,” and was considered by Gandhi himself to be the highest living representative of Christianity.

Charlie Lawson is an Unnatural Networker to the core. He shows you in this book how he went from being a complete non-networker to being confident to network anywhere, anytime, with anyone. As head of

Chetan Bhagat is the author of five blockbuster novels, Five Point Someone (2004), One Night @ the Call Center (2005), The 3 Mistakes of life (2008), 2 States (2009) and Revolution 2020 (2011). All five books have remained bestsellers since their release and have inspired major Bollywood films. The New York Times called Chetan the the biggest selling English language novelist in India's history. Time Magazine named him as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World.Chetan also writes for leading English and Hindi newspapers, focusing on youth and national development based issues. Chetan quit his international investment banking career in 2009, to devote his entire time to writing and make change happen in the country. He lives in Mumbai with his wife Anusha, an ex-classmate from IIMA and his twin boys Shyam and Ishaan.

CHRIS DUCKER is an international bestselling author and founder of Youpreneur.com—the entrepreneurial mastermind community that helps experts become the go-to leader in their market.

CHRIS McLEOD is an Australian author, editor, and journalist who has family in Ukraine.

CHRIS PARKER began his study of interpersonal and intrapersonal communications in 1976. It became a lifelong study that has underpinned four decades of work in a variety of professional roles.

Christopher W London earned a doctorate from Oxford University in 1987 with a dissertation on British Architecture in Victorian Bombay. An art and architectural historian, he specializes in British architecture in India, and has won an award for his work in building preservation in New York. Affiliated to the Royal Institute of British Architects, he has lectured at Cambridge University, for the Victorian Society of Great Britain, and for the Society for South Asian Studies in London. He was guest editor and contributing author to Architecture in Victorian and Edwardian India (1994) and The Arts of Kutch (2000), and has contributed to Bombay to Mumbai: Changing Perspectives (1997), Lucknow: Then and Now (2003) and Banaras: The City Revealed (2005) all published by Marg, Mumbai. The Times of India and The Indian Architect & Builder, as well as several newspapers in London and Cambridge, have carried his articles. The author resides in London and New York.

Colby Sharma LL.B. is a leading expert focused on helping organizations unlock greater resiliency in their teams to produce great work and master deep change. His clients include leading financial institutions such as The Bank of Nova Scotia and Manulife Financial. As a presenter, Colby blends great insights in a style that is fresh, thought-provoking and engaging. The Curveball is his first novel.

RAJAN WELUKAR, an eminent academician, is the former vice-chancellor of the University of Mumbai, Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University and GH Raisoni University. He lives in Mumbai.

Abdur Raheem Kidwai is Professor of English at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh and Visiting Professor at the Department of English, University of Leicester, UK. He earned two doctorates in English from the Aligarh and Leicester universities. He has published two books, The Quran: Essential Teachings (Jaico) and Bibliography of the Translations of the Meanings of the Glorious Quran into English: 1649-2002 A Critical Study (KFQPC, Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Madina, Saudi Arabia), and numerous articles and reviews on the English translations of the Quran.

AASTHA PARIVAAR is a federation of 14 community-based organizations, formed by, of and for sex workers across Mumbai and Thane, that works to give a face to the community of sex workers, helping them claim the dignity that they deserve as much as any other person in society. (To know more see www.aasthaparivaar.org) Aastha Parivaar is supported by FHI 360, a global development organization with a presence in 125 countries.

Noëlle Perez-Christiaens was one of the first Westerners to study with B. K. S. Iyengar in Pune. She has published 27 books on yoga and aplomb. In 2008, Noëlle received the degree of Doctor of Ethnophysiology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

COREY PEIN is an investigative reporter and a regular contributor to The Baffler. A former staff writer for Willamette Week, he has also written for Slate, Salon, Foreign Policy, The American Prospect, and the Columbia Journalism Review, among other publications. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

COREY WRENN has a B.S. in Business Administration from University of South Dakota and an M.B.A from University of Nebraska at Omaha. Corey is the Vice President, Treasurer, and CCO for Pecaut & Company.

CRISTINA SCHREIL is an award-winning journalist, photojournalist and ghostwriter.

CUONG LU was ordained a monk at Plum Village under the guidance of Thich Nhat Hanh. He is the founder of Mind Only School in the Netherlands and the No Word Zen order of “invisible monks and nuns,” based in France, and the author of Wait and The Buddha in Jail.