Geraldine Markel, Ph.D. is principal of Managing Your Mind Coaching & Seminars, LLC, which provides results-oriented, work/life and performance enhancement programs for leaders and their staffs. Dr. Markel specializes in working with idea generators to keep them on target and to ward off unnecessary distractions.  She coaches adults and adolescents with ADD and/or learning disabilities and specializes in working with independent professionals, writers, and graduate students.

Dr. Markel holds a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Michigan, as well as an Ed.S. in Special Education from George Washington University. She is author of Defeating the 8 Demons of Distraction: Increasing Productivity and Decreasing Stress and co author of Finding Your Focus: Practical Strategies for the Everyday Challenges Facing Adults with ADD and Helping Adolescents with ADD and/or Learning Disabilities.  At the University of Michigan, Dr. Markel served as faculty in the School of Education, and as Director of Adolescent and Adult Services at the Reading and Learning Skills Center. She also served as a consultant to the University of  Michigan School of Dentistry and to the Executive Education Center of the University of Michigan Graduate School of Business Administration.  For more information, please visit www.managingyourmind.com