Murray R. Barrick is the Stanley M. Howe Leadership Chair at the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa. He is a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and the American Psychological Association. The author of numerous scholarly articles and chapters, he also serves on the editorial boards of the "Journal of Applied Psychology and Personnel Psychology,"
Ann Marie Ryan is a professor of industrial/organizational psychology at Michigan State University and president of Employee Research Group, a consulting firm. She is president of Division 14 of the American Psychological Association as well as president of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
Susan Nations is an author, national literacy consultant, conference presenter and intervention teacher in the Sarasota County Public Schools. She is the co-author of Primary Literacy Centers: Making Reading and Writing STICK!, More Primary Literacy Centers, and So Much Stuff, So Little Space: Creating and Managing the Learner Centered Classroom. She has also written many teacher's guides for various educational publishers. She has been a classroom teacher and literacy coach with students and teachers in kindergarten through fifth grade for more than 20 years. Susan currently works at Gocio Elementary School in the Sarasota County School System. She works with students and teachers at the school site to implement and improve literacy instruction. Susan also coordinates staff development and testing at her school site. She was the Sarasota County 2004-2005 Teacher of the Year and a finalist for the 2009 Literacy Teacher of the Year. In addition to her site-based job, Susan is highly requested to speak and present at local, state, and national conferences. Most recently, she has presented for the Florida Reading Association Conference, the International Reading Association National Conference, and the Staff Development for Educators (SDE) national conferences. She also provides customized literacy training for schools and districts around the United States. Susan lives in Sarasota with her husband Don and their four sons.
