Michael J. Dowling provides award-winning professional writing and publishing-assistance services to thought leaders. In addition to ghostwriting and editing dozens of books over the past twenty years, he is the author of Boosting Your Pet's Self-Esteem, a humorous satire of the self-esteem craze published by MacMillan, and Flip Along Fun, an interactive, educational children's flip book that received the internationally respected Mom's Choice Award. From 1987 to 1999. Michael served on the staff of Trinity Presbyterian Church, a 1000-member PCA church in Charlottesville, VA. Prior to 1986, he held leadership positions in a variety of business corporations in the Boston area. Michael earned an MBA degree from Columbia Business School in New York City, where he was a Harriman Scholar, and an engineering degree from the University of Florida in Gainesville.