Author Biographies

Jennifer has dual British and Italian nationality and has lived in several European countries before moving to Cincinnati Ohio, US. With an International baccalaureate from the European School of Varese, Italy, and a masters degree in Management & Psychology from Glasgow University,UK she started her career in Procter & Gamble.

After almost 10 years in this multinational and experience in roles including web marketing and human resources manager, she started her own consultancy firm, working primarily for the World Wildlife fund on corporate sustainability education and analysis.

She is currently Senior Corporate Marketing Manager for Luxottica in Cincinnati, USA.

Margaret McCraw, Ph.D., LCSW-C, MBA, is a licensed psychotherapist and motivational speaker, who provides personal as well as executive coaching and training to a wide variety of organizations and professionals, including the Back Institute who provided articles for the section on back pain and depression.

In addition, as a faculty member of the American Holistic University, Margaret teaches in the doctoral program for Psychology.

 With more than 25 years of experience as a therapist, healthcare and business consultant, she works with psychologists, marriage/ relationship therapists, social workers, nurses, mental health counselors, and life coaches.

Her seminars focus on raising one's level of awareness, enabling individuals, couples and organizations to achieve their desires. An inspiring speaker, she travels nationwide, sharing her insights on personal empowerment, manifesting one's dreams, relationship building and business development.



Margaret McCraw, Ph.D. can be reached for private phone consultations through her web site at www.tuneintolove.com or by calling 1-(877)-366-9111


All consultations are by appointment only!

Tim Nichol was born in South Wales and studied Drama, Speech and Movement at teacher training college in Leeds. After eight years teaching in Newport, he started work with Service Children’s Education and taught in Naples, Italy, before moving to Germany. There he became involved in Special Educational Needs and eventually became a Deputy head teacher and manager of a unit for children with a range of complex needs. From there he became an adviser to schools on special needs and Inclusion matters. He has published a novel based on a child with Dyspraxia.

Tim has presented at Conferences in English and German. His main interest presently is the use of Solution Focused approaches on a range of topics: exam preparation, confidence building, behaviour management, parenting, separation, team building.

In quieter moments he enjoys painting, fitness training, walking, writing, cooking and baking (especially when the cakes don’t stick to the trays!)

Richard K Ryland is British by birth but considers himself a European and has trained and practised in the UK as a Registered Mental Nurse, General Nurse and Nurse Teacher. Richard also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Master of Science in Nursing. He has 28 years of British National Health Service experience and 7 years as an expert witness to the British High Court. Richard has spent 10 years on the Editorial Board of the well respected and internationally acclaimed Journal of Advanced Nursing published by Blackwell Scientific Publications in the UK.

Richard is a well proven nursing author with dozens of publications to his name. Richard has worked for the Spanish Costa Blanca magazine Out & About for 5 years as health correspondent. Richard has lived in Spain since 2002 on the Costa Blanca.