Her latest books are: RESOLVING CONFLICT (IUniverse 2006), THE EMPOWERED MIND (IUniverse 2006), A SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR WORKING WITH BAD BOSSES (AMACOM 2005),THE COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO PARTY PLAN SELLING (Alpha Books 2005), HOMICIDE BY THE RICH AND FAMOUS (Berkley Books, 2006; Greenwood 2005; ), A SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR WORKING WITH HUMANS (AMACOM 2004), DO YOU LOOK LIKE YOUR DOG?,  (Broadway/Random House 2004); WORK WITH ME! RESOLVING EVERYDAY CONFLICT IN YOUR ORGANIZATION (Davies-Black 2000), and THE COMPLETE IDIOT’S GUIDE TO  SHAMANISM (Alpha Books 2002).  MANAGING EMPLOYEES FROM HELL will be out in November from AMACOM.

She has been a featured guest on hundreds of TV and radio programs, including Good Morning America, Oprah, Montel Williams, the O’Reilly Factor, CNN, and many others. She has been teaching classes on business, law, organizational behavior, public relations, marketing, management, psychological profiling, and privacy for the University of Notre Dame de Namur and the Investigative Career Program for private investigators in San Francisco. She has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California at Berkeley, a J.D. from the University of San Francisco Law School, and M.A.s in Anthropology and in Mass Communications and Organizational, Consumer, and Audience Behavior. from California State University, East Bay.