Robert D. Rutherford, Ph.D.,Dr. Rutherford is a highly respected and accomplished author, businessman and teacher. From the faculties at UCLA and California Institute of Technology, to real estate executive to the CEO of one of the nation's largest public management seminar companies to consultant and publisher, he speaks and writes with unusual power and authority. He has consulted with and trained tens of thousands of professionals. He consults to such organizations as California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Alcatel, Lucent Technologies, Lutron Electronics, Honeywell, IBM, Chevron Oil, National Renewable Energy Laboratories, Sony, NASA, Motorola, Disney, Federal Laboratories Consortium, Seagate, Unisys, Southern California Edison, FBI, DEA, U.S. Department of Navy, Army and Air Force. Dr. Rutherford has hosted a weekly television show, served on the Board of Directors for several corporations. His work has been covered in such publications as Business Week, Wall Street Journal, and Success Magazine and translated into foreign languages and syndicated by the Los Angeles Times and other major newspapers. He is the author of such books as Just in Time: Immediate Help for the Time Pressured; Twenty-Five Most Common Mistakes Made in Negotiating and What You can do about them ; and The Manipulation Trap: How to deal with Would-Be Difficult Manipulative Buyers- A Sellers Guide to Success and Sanity ; How to Get From No to Go: The Magic of Negotiating Winning Agreements )A graduate of Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley, Dr. Rutherford received his Ph.D. from UCLA. He served on the California Institute of Technology(Caltech) faculty and directed the Caltech Management Center. In addition, Dr. Rutherford taught at UCLA and was the Director of Executive Education for the Graduate School of Management at UCLA.Specialties: Negotiations, Managing Multi Demands, Applying knowledge to desired actions.