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 Harry Beckwith directs Beckwith Partners, a Minneapolis-based marketing firm with such clients as Microsoft, Target, Wells Fargo and many venture-capital-funded startups.He is the author of three books: Selling the Invisible, The Invisible Touch and What Clients Love—with a fourth, to be titled, You: The Art of Selling Yourself, on the way. Harry also teaches and speaks about marketing. |
 Barbara Benham is a writer whose credits include Travel + Leisure, Consumer Reports, Cooking Light, MORE and the Washington Post Magazine, among others. She lovesgoing into an assignment expecting one thing and finding another. In this case, she was ready for entrepreneurial fantasies, hobbyists who started dreaming early on about one day starting a business. “But that’s not how it usually happens,” she says. “Often a friend or family member gets the ball rolling, by offering to compensate the hobbyist. I love the serendipity of that.” Barbara lives in Washington, D.C. with her nine-year-old son. She has no current plans to take her hobbies, cooking and photography, commercial. |
 Larry Bleiberg has lived in Texas for nearly 15 years and has been travel editor of The Dallas Morning News since 1999. Previously, he wrote for and edited newspapers in Louisville, Ky., and Vancouver, British Columbia. In 2002, he was honored by the Lowell Thomas Awards for producing the best large-newspaper travel section in North America. “I love Dallas for its energy, its whimsy and its boldface brass,” he says. |
 Ed Brodow is the author of Negotiation Boot Camp: How to Resolve Conflict, Satisfy Customers, and Make Better Deals (Doubleday, 2006). As a speaker, his client list includes Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, The Hartford, Mobil Oil, Philip Morris, Revlon, Starbucks and the Pentagon. Brodow has appeared as a negotiation guru on PBS, ABC News, Fox News and Inside Edition. His ideas have been showcased in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Smart Money and Selling Power.  Mark Cardwell is an Ontario-born journalist and writer who has been living in—and writing about—the heart of French Quebec since the early 1980s. In addition to authoring the odd travel story about beautiful Quebec City and contributing to guidebooks like Fodor’s, he churns out more than 100 news and feature stories a year about Quebec and les Québécois for some two dozen newspapers and magazines across North America and Europe.  Brendan Coffey susses out coming trends of interest to business travelers. He points out, “Many times, a trend is simply delayed implementation of a great idea. Recognizing trends early can be the difference between success and being a poor imitator.” Coffey is a freelance writer living in Jersey City, N.J. In addition to Executive Travel, his work has appeared in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Motivation Strategies and elsewhere. |
 Ellen Creager is the Detroit Free Press travel writer and a Michigan native. A longtime newspaper reporter who has covered everything from murders and politics to food and fitness, she now travels globally with the eyes of a tourist and the needs of a business traveler. Her profile of Detroit was an enjoyable return to Michigan topics: “The more I travel, the more clearly I see the strengths and weaknesses about my hometown.” |
 Sheree Curry is a freelance writer based in Minnesota. |
 Kevin Cuthbert (“Executive Coach”) has served as the chief human resources officer for Swissotel and Business Logic Corporation. He contributed to the research and publication of First, Break All the Rules, while working at the Gallup Organization. He has also been cited in The Wall Street Journal, as well as other publications, and has served as a board member for two for-profit corporations in the U.S. and Switzerland. |
 Hilary Davidson grew up in Canada, but visited Newfoundland for the first time just last year. “St. John’s is truly unique. It’s a vibrant city with all of the amenities you’d want. But the friendliness and warmth of the people there make it feel like a small town.” Based in New York, Davidson has contributed to magazines as diverse as Discover and Martha Stewart Weddings. She just published her twelfth book, Frommer’s New York City Day by Day. |
 William Dietrich is a Washington State native who has written for the Seattle Times for two decades. He shared a Pulitzer for coverage of the Exxon Valdez oil spill and is the author of seven books, three of them on the Pacific Northwest and four of them novels. “Seattle and the Northwest spoil you with a mix of damp charm, moody beauty and social civility that make it difficult to live anywhere else,” says Dietrich. |
 Danielle DiGiacomo has written about travel for Orbitz.com, Travel Savvy, and Travel Agent Magazine, among others. She has also contributed pieces about film and culture for such publications as International Documentary, Release Print and the L Magazine, while regularly reviewing books for Kirkus Reviews. Danielle also makes documentaries, works as Head of Documentary Acquisitions for Indiepix.net and attends roughly 20 film festivals a year. About luxury event travel, she says, “Its increasing popularity just proves that people have become more willing to open themselves up to new cultural experiences all over the world.” Danielle lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., with her boyfriend and her cat, Brocktoon.  Paul DiModica (“Selling”) is a speaker, author, consultant and president of Digital-Hatch, a sales and marketing consulting company. He is also author of the best-selling books Value Forward Selling: How To Sell Management and Sales Management Power Strategies, as well as publisher of the world’s largest sales strategy newsletter, BDM News. |
 Julie Earle-Levine was born in Melbourne, grew up in Queensland and worked in Sydney for a decade before moving to New York. “Sydney is one of the most stunning cities in the world. It is constantly changing,” she says. She has written for the Financial Times of London and The New York Times, among other publications, and she travels regularly to Australia to see family and friends. She lives in Greenwich Village with her husband and her dog. |
 Victoria Pesce Elliott, the Miami Herald’s restaurant critic, makes a career out of eating and drinking in Miami, where she finds amazingly diverse outlets to do so. A graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism, she is also the local editor of the South Florida Zagat Survey. For many years, she covered Florida hotels, restaurants and attractions for the Frommer’s Guides and Knopf’s Miami series. She freelances for a number of national magazines, including Food & Wine and Wine & Spirits. |
 Jill Fergus (“Restaurants”) has worked as an editor at Travel + Leisure magazine and is now a freelance writer. She writes for numerous publications, including the New York Daily News, National Geographic Traveler and American Way. She has also appeared on television discussing travel-related issues for CNN, MSNBC and FOX. |
 Victor Fiorillo, who writes about the good life—food, fun and travel— for Philadelphia magazine, frequently gets calls from out-of-town friends and family visiting his hometown. “Before you know it, they’ve seen more of Philadelphia than most Philadelphians. I love being a tour guide,” he says. His understanding of both sides of the city—the flashy, new and improved model and the old-school, back-alley version—makes for a unique tour. |
 Dean Foster is president of Dean Foster Associates and consults on intercultural business issues with most Fortune 500 companies in the United States and around the globe. Formerly, he was founder and managing director of Berlitz Cross-Cultural Worldwide, vice president of GMAC/Windham Intercultural and founder of Cross-Cultural Consulting Associates. Foster is the author of The Global Etiquette Guide to Europe, The Global Etiquette Guide to Asia, The Global Etiquette Guide to Latin America, The Global Etiquette Guide to Africa and Bargaining Across Borders. |
 Captain Meryl Getline (fromthecockpit.com) is a retired B777 pilot. She is the author of The World at My Feet. |
 Steve Giglio created the Giglio Company in 1989 to address the greatest fear executives face in the workplace: public speaking. As a result of coaching over 30,000 executives, his practice has expanded to include the areas of selling skills, interpersonal relations, executive presence and motivation. Giglio is the author of Beating the Deal Killers: Overcoming Murphy’s Law (and Other Sales Nightmares). |
 Jim Glab is a regular contributor to Executive Travel. He is a contributing editor of Travel + Leisure and is coauthor of Rapid Descent: Deregulation and the Shakeout in the Airlines (Simon & Schuster, 1994). |
 Jim Gorzelany, a Chicago-based freelance writer, is a well respected expert in the international automotive community. He regularly test-drives new vehicles on highways, back roads and racetracks both here and abroad. He is a frequent contributor on automotive topics to a broad spectrum of print and online publications, including ForbesAutos.com, Consumers Digest, Muscle & Fitness, cars.com, TheCarConnection.com, GO (the in-flight magazine for AirTran Airways) and Consumer Review Automotive Publications. |
 Karen Goodwin (Short Cuts), a former editor of Frequent Flyer magazine, has spent her entire career covering the travel industry. She has written about business, leisure and Internet travel topics for numerous publications, and has visited 35 countries. Goodwin is based in Boulder, Colo. |
 Eileen Gunn is a freelance writer who covers the personal side of business: how to make money, invest money and spend money. Her book, Your Career Is an Extreme Sport, was released in October. She says, “When I travel, I like to completely remove myself from my day-to-day life, and experience local culture as much as I can. Australia offers any number of ways you can do just that.” |
 Leah Ingram was treading in familiar territory when penning her story on gift-giving—she is the author of Gifts Anytime: How to Find the Perfect Present for Any Occasion. Ingram, based in New Hope, Pa., found herself salivating over one of the gifts she recommends in her story—driving lessons at the Richard Petty Driving Experience. “My husband always refers to me as Mario Andretti, because of my need for speed behind the wheel,” admits the certified etiquette and protocol consultant. |
 Sheri Jeavons is known as the Virtual Presentation Coach. She is the founder of Power Presentations, a company that specializes in presentation and communication skill training programs and products. A recognized expert in her field, Sheri has successfully trained more than 10,000 professionals across America. She was selected as one of the Top 10 Women Business Owners by the National Association of Women Business Owners and received the Working Woman Magazine Entrepreneurial Excellence Award.  Erika Lenkert, committed to turning her pursuit of pleasure into a career, found happiness as a freelance food, wine and travel journalist. After a decade split between San Francisco, Los Angeles and exotic destinations, she settled in Napa Valley, where she is an expert on the best of Northern California wine country’s offerings. The San Francisco native’s wine, food and travel experiences have appeared in InStyle, Food & Wine, Travel + Leisure, and her cookbook, The Last-Minute Party Girl: Fashionable, Fearless, and Foolishly Simple Entertaining. |
 Dean Lindsay (“Selling”) is a business speaker and founder of ProgressAgents.com, a workshop company that empowers executives to progress in sales, service and workplace performance. Lindsay is the author of Cracking the Networking CODE: 4 Steps to Priceless Business Relationships. He writes the column “Be Progress” for various business publications and is a featured contributor to the nationally distributed audio publication Selling Power Live, hosted by Jeffrey Gitomer. He is also the head writer and editor of the widely read email-based newsletter, The Progress Report. |
 Eric J. Lyman is a long-time freelance writer who has lived outside his native U.S. for most of the last 15 years. Living in Rome since 1999, he has adopted the city as his home. “Over the years, I’ve traveled to countless cities in almost 50 countries, and have never been to a place that has attracted me in as many different ways as Rome has,” he says. Lyman’s personal Web site is ericjlyman.com. |
 Robin Lynam caught his first glimpse of Hong Kong through the window of a 747 during the famous dramatic descent between the tower blocks to the old downtown airport. That was more than 20 years ago, and he has never lost his sense of excitement about the place. A permanent resident of the city, he writes regularly for the South China Morning Post on travel, jazz, food and wine, and his work has also appeared in Newsweek, Wine Enthusiast, and a number of in-flight publications, including Cathay Pacific’s Discovery and United Airlines’ Hemispheres. He still misses the approach to the old airport, but has become accustomed to the ultramodern efficiency of Chek Lap Kok. |
 Bob Mackin is a freelance travel, sports and business writer and photographer based in North Vancouver, B.C. He enjoys snowshoeing, mountain biking and kayaking—sometimes on the same day. He’s looking forward to wearing shorts and sandals to the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics. |
 John Mariani is a food journalist and author of numerous books on food, including Grilling for Dummies and The Italian American Cookbook (with his wife, Galina Mariani). He is currently the food and travel columnist for Esquire, contributing editor for Wine Spectator and restaurant columnist for Polo.com and Luxury.com. He also writes for a variety of other publications. Mariani says, “I do try to eat a good steak each week—if not at home, then at a bona fide steakhouse.” He lives in Tuckahoe, N.Y., with his wife and two sons. |
 Robert McGarvey says that whenever he writes about Australia, he is quickly reminded of the country’s powerful allure: “Great wine, good food, friendly people and a government that genuinely likes business. What’s not to like?” A contributing editor to American Way and a frequent contributor to Continental, Jersey City, NJ–based McGarvey has written more than 1,000 articles in a career spanning 25 years. Today, he covers business, executives and the forces that are reshaping our global economy. |
 Lori Midson, the restaurant critic at Colorado AvidGolfer magazine, spends her life wining and dining her away around Denver, unabashedly indulging her passion for all things culinary. “Denver’s exploding dining scene rivals that of far larger cities,” Midson says. She is a frequent contributor to Sunset, the local editor of numerous Zagat Surveys, and the Denver dining critic for AOL CityGuide. She has also written for such publications as 5280, CITY, Midwest Express, Acura Style and EnCompass. |
 Christopher Null is a veteran technologyjournalist who has written forPC Computing, PC World, Wired,and numerous other high-tech publications. He was the foundingeditor-in-chief of Mobile PC magazine,and currently can be found writing adaily technology blog at tech.yahoo.com.Null experiments with all mannerof hardware and software on adozen computers in his home office. “Vista is going to change just about everything about the PC world,” henotes, “whether you’re ready for it or not.”  Randy Petersen is publisher of Inside Flyer magazine and is president of Frequent Flyer Services. |
 Christopher Pitts is a Paris-based writer,editor and translator. “What I love most about writing about Paris isthe chance to continually discovernew aspects of one of the world’sgreatest cities,” he says. Pitts has written for several guidebooks toFrance, including National GeographicTraveler, Fodor’s, Culture Shock: France and The Rough Guides. He divides histime between France, the U.S. andChina, where he works on otherwriting assignments.  Ulla Plon earned masters degrees in architecture and urban planning from the Royal Art Academy in Copenhagen and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, but switched to journalism in the late 1980s. Ever since, she has been supplying English-language media, primarily Time magazine, with coverage from the Scandinavian countries. But she considers it a particular joy when she can combine her knowledge of cities and architecture with her writing skills. |
 Kemp Powers is a writer and reporter who has contributed to dozens of publications over the course of his decade-long career, including the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Forbes, Esquire, GQ, Vibe, Savoy and many others. He was awarded a Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowship at the University of Michigan in 2002, and his first book (The Shooting: A Memoir) was published in 2005. His piece in this issue of Executive Travel allowed him to explore one of his favorite aspects of business, the entrepreneur: “I really enjoy telling the stories of people who don’t come from trained business backgrounds, yet are able to educate themselves on the nuances of business management and still find success.” |
 Alex Salkever moved to Hawaii in 1994 to avoid graduate school and surf the big waves of the North Shore of Oahu. He never left—with the exception of a two-year stint in New York City to work for BusinessWeek.com. His work has appeared in a wide variety of national and regional publications, including Outside, Condé Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure, the Christian Science Monitor, the Washington Post, Salon, Islands, Men’s Journal, Food & Wine, Surfer and Honolulu Magazine. Salkever also founded and operates Hawaiirama, a travel blog covering the islands with insider tips and local perspectives updated several times daily. |
 Juergen G. Scheunemann is a German native who has lived in Berlin since 1987 as a journalist for the city’s leading daily, Der Tagesspiegel, as well as BBC Television. “To me, Berlin is one of the most exciting cities in the world,” he says, “because its potential for changing and constantly surprising me anew is endless. And I love the Berliners—a very special breed of people with a dry sense of humor and no-nonsense, straightforward look on life.” He has published several travel guides on Berlin for Fodor’s, Dorling-Kindersley and other publishing companies. |
 Jenna Schnuer is a New York City–based freelance writer and frequent traveler. She couldn’t agree more with the recommendation some of her sources gave in her article about bringing a spouse or partner along on a business trip: The most important step is managing expectations. She’s a frequent contributor to American Way, the American Airlines magazine, and a columnist for Pages magazine; and has also written for titles such as Advertising Age, Shape, USA Weekend, Lexus and Cooking Light. |
 Mark T. Smith has had 11 major solo art exhibitions and participated in 19 group exhibitions. In 1996, Absolut Vodka commissioned Smith for a national Absolut Smith campaign. He is currently working on a two-story relief sculpture for a private collector and a mural for the 2006 World AIDS conference. When Mark is not painting, he likes to indulge his interests in travel, 1960s vintage American muscle cars and sailing. His artwork can be viewed online at marktsmith.com. |
 Art Sobczak helps sales professionals (and those who don’t consider themselves salespeople, but still must sell) use the phone to cold- call painlessly, turn more inquiries into sales, maximize existing-customer revenue, and move the sales process forward more quickly, with conversational “non-salesey” methods and without morale-killing “rejection.” He does this through public and in-company seminars, his many books, audios and weekly podcasts, and his free weekly sales tips (businessbyphone.com). |
 Zack Stern is a San Francisco–based freelance technology writer and editor who has contributed to Windows XP: The Easy Way, Cell Phone Handbook, ReadyMade and Drill, among dozens of publications. After evaluating hundreds of products, he can smell good technology from 10 paces, and he isn’t afraid to call the bad technology names. He hopes to save you some stress in the process. |
 Robert Strohmeyer (“Technology”) cut his teeth as a journalist writing high-tech reviews for the once ubiquitous computer magazine PC Computing. Since then, he’s written for tech magazines around the world, including Wired, Mobile, MacAddict, Maximum PC, Windows XP and Laptop UK. He is a frequent contributor to Wired News and the editor of the gadget blog Gear Factor. Robert lives in Northern California, where he enjoys sailing on the San Francisco Bay with his wife and their Labrador retriever. |
 Jeff Thull is a strategist and advisor forexecutive teams of major companiesworldwide. As president and CEO of Prime Resource Group, he hasdesigned and implemented business transformation and professional development programs for companieslike Shell Global Solutions, 3M, Siemens, Microsoft, Intel, Citicorp, IBM and Georgia-Pacific, as well asmany fast-track startup companies.Thull is also the author of Masteringthe Complex Sale: How to Compete and Win When the Stakes are High! (Wiley, 2003), The Prime Solution: Close the Value Gap,Increase Margins, and Win the Complex Sale(Kaplan Business, 2005) and ExceptionalSelling: How the Best Connect and Win inHigh Stakes Sales (Wiley, 2006).  Marylene Vestergom is no stranger to the Olympics. She has covered the sport of luge at four Winter Olympic Games for both CBC and CTV. She has written for a variety of magazines and newspapers like Nuvo, Runner’s World and the Toronto Star. “Olympic Spirit Toronto is about self-discovery,” she says. “We have such busy lives—we sometimes forget the benefits sport can bring into our day-to-day routine.” |
 Mara Vorhees is a freelance food and travel writer who has been traveling to Russia since the days of the Cold War and communism. Moscow’s development since that time is among the most amazing transformations she has witnessed. She has written about it for the Boston Globe and King Features Syndicates. She is the author of Lonely Planet’s Moscow City Guide and coauthor of Lonely Planet’s Russia & Belarus and Trans-Siberian Railroad. |
 Carla Waldemar writes about business, travel, dining and the arts from her home in Minnesota. She formerly served as a food editor for Better Homes and Gardens and as senior editor of Cuisine, and she has edited the Zagat Survey for her city. She contributes to scores of publications, ranging from the Robb Report, Food & Wine and Sante to in-flight and trade magazines. After living elsewhere, Waldemar returned to where she belongs, Minneapolis, where she reviews restaurants and theater and serves on arts boards. An insider’s secret: “My city has more theater than anywhere outside New York—all the quality and half the ticket price.” And no, she does not say, “Ya, you betcha.”  Marcus Webb is the Group Editor of Time Out GCC and produces magazines and guides for several cities across the Gulf region, including Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Muscat and Doha. He also edits the annual Time Out Dubai, Abu Dhabi and UAE City Guide. Since moving to the desert in 2002, Marcus has seen the region develop at an incredible rate—from manmade islands in the sea to indoor ski slopes, Grand Prix circuits and seven-star hotels. When he is not traveling, researching or writing, he DJs. Badly.  Liz Willis has worked as a journalist, an editor, a radio producer, a university lecturer, and a political and media advisor specializing in Australian indigenous affairs. “In writing this article, I was torn between wanting to tell the world about the amazing indigenous tourism and cultural experiences available in Australia, while simultaneously wanting to guard our well-kept secrets.” Willis lives and works in Seattle. |
Anthony Wright is an Australian freelance writer and teacher who lived for a decade in Mexico City (1992–2002) working as a journalist. He has written for The Hollywood Reporter, Business Mexico and The Sydney Morning Herald, among other publications, and recently completed a novel, Santo Chiste, set in the Mexican capital. A return visit to “the Big Taco” in 2006 convinced Wright, currently based in Melbourne, to relocate permanently later this year. “It gets under your skin,” Wright says. “Mexico City can be a hard gig, but it’s supercharged, crackling with energy.”
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