Ross Cornwell is a native South Carolinian. He was educated at Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina, and Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. He is a graduate of the Goethe Institut, Ebersberg, Germany. He has enjoyed two careers—one in higher education and the other in the private sector as a publisher, writer/editor and consultant. His background includes stints as a journalist and columnist, and work in public relations, scriptwriting, speechwriting, newsletter publishing, corporate communications, and film criticism, both print and broadcast. He served as Executive Assistant to the President at Clemson University and later was managing editor of four national circulation newsletters, including Think & Grow Rich Newsletter. Programs he headed won the CASE Grand Award, presented by the Ford Motor Company Fund for the nation’s most outstanding “special public relations project” in higher education, and the Newsweek National First Place Award, presented to the college news and information program judged best in the United States. He is the author of the chapter on speechwriting for the second edition of Handbook for Institutional Advancement. A video he scripted—“With the Mind of a Child”— won a 2001 Bronze WorldMedal at The New York Festivals and a 2002 Silver Screen Award at the 35th Annual U. S. International Film and Video Festival in Los Angeles. He is president and CEO of The Mindpower Press, Achieve It, Inc., and of Cornwell Associates, a corporate communications services firm. He has edited or written 10 books and written 35 videos. He lives in Pendleton, South Carolina, and has two daughters, Johannah and Anne-Ross, three granddaughters, and one grandson. To connect with Ross Cornwell, visit MindpowerPress.com and facebook.com/MindpowerPress.