Michael W. Preis has been a management consultant, business owner, executive, and clinical professor of business administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from The Ohio State University, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a Ph.D. in marketing from George Washington University.

Matthew Frederick is a bestselling author, instructor of design and writing, and the creator of the 101 Things I Learned® series. He lives in New York's Hudson Valley.