Dawna Markova, Ph.D., is the CEO emeritus of Professional Thinking Partners, an organization that teaches collaborative thinking to CEOs and senior executives around the world. Internationally known for her research in the fields of learning and perception, she is a former senior affiliate of the Society for Organizational Learning, originated at MIT's Sloan School of Management, the co-author of the international bestseller Random Acts of Kindness, the author of I Will Not Die an Unlived Life, and the co-author, with Angie McArthur, of Collaborative Intelligence. She lives in Hawaii.