Phyllis G. McDaniel is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the College of William and Mary and the University of GA, with post-graduate, Continuing Education courses through GA Tech, Emory University and UCLA. She has been a psychotherapist/ life coach and the owner/ co-director of The American Institute for Human Development, a psychological testing and psychotherapy office in the Atlanta area, for over twenty-eight years as well as a corporate business consultant in the areas of forensics and employment screening and evaluation. She has also worked in Computer Science and Actuarial Science. She is the author of fifty-six books, including non-fiction, fiction and poetry as well as inspirational/ instructional and faith-based books.