Kathleen Kelley Reardon, Ph.D.,

Professor of Management and Association at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business has served on the personnel of the MBA, Executive MBA, and International MBA Programs, and on the staff of Preventive Medicine. The co-creator (with Christopher T. Noblet) of Comebacks at Work: Using Conversation to Master Confrontation (HarperBusiness), she is a main expert on influence, legislative issues in the work environment, exchange, and sexual orientation issues in correspondence. Reardon has been a featured subject matter expert, chief mentor, and specialist for such associations as The Conference Board, The Los Angeles Town Hall Executive Series, Avery Dennison, Loewe, Steuben Glass, CIGNA, Epson, Hewlett Packard, Accountants Overload, AT&T, Toyota, IBM Watson Research Center, Moog Aircraft, SONY Entertainment, NASA Jet Propulsion Labs, Siemens Corp., NewsCorp, Pfizer, and The Young Presidents Organization. One of HuffingtonPost.com's signature and top bloggers whose composing is regularly gotten and included on Yahoo!, she has showed up on ABC's Good Morning America, NBC s Nightly News and The Today Show, Bloomberg, and a large group of other news sources. She is the writer of eight books, including The Secret Handshake, It's All Politics, and The Skilled Negotiator.