Angelo Kinicki is Professor and member of the Dean's Council of 100 Distinguished Scholars at Arizona State University. He joined the faculty in 1982, the year he received his doctorate in business administration from Kent State University. His specialty is organizational behavior.

Angelo is recognized for both his research and writing. He has published over 80 articles in a variety of leading academic and professional journals and has coauthored five textbooks (10, if multiple editions are counted). Angelo's success as a researcher also resulted in his being selected to serve on the editorial boards for the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Vocational Behavior, and the Journal of Management. He also received the All-Time Best Reviewer Award from the Academy of Management Journal for the period 1996–1999.

Angelo's outstanding teaching performance resulted in his selection as the Graduate Teacher of the Year and the Undergraduate Teacher of the Year in the College of Business at Arizona State University. He was also acknowledged as the Instructor of the Year for Executive Education from the Center for Executive Development at ASU. One of Angelo's strengths is his ability to teach students at all levels within a university. He uses an interactive environment to enhance undergraduates' understanding about management and organizational behavior. He focuses MBAs on applying management concepts to solve complex problems, and PhD students learn the art and science of conducting scholarly research.

Angelo is also a busy consultant and speaker with companies around the world. His clients are many of the Fortune 500 companies as well as a variety of entrepreneurial firms. Much of his consulting work focuses on creating organizational change aimed at increasing organizational effectiveness and profitability. One of his most important and enjoyable pursuits is the practical application of his knowledge about management and organizational behavior.

Angelo and his wife, Joyce, have enjoyed living in the beautiful Arizona desert for 23 years but are natives of Cleveland, Ohio. They enjoy traveling, golfing, and hiking.

Brian Williams has been Managing Editor for college textbook publisher Harper & Row/Canfield Press in San Francisco; Editor-in- Chief for nonfiction trade-book publisher J. P. Tarcher in Los Angeles; Publications & Communications Manager for the University of California, Systemwide Administration, in Berkeley; and an independent writer and book producer based in the San Francisco and Lake Tahoe areas. He has a B.A. in English and M.A. in Communication from Stanford University. He has co-authored 20 books (47, counting revisions), which include such bestselling college texts as Using Information Technology with his wife, Stacey C. Sawyer, now being revised for its seventh edition with McGraw-Hill. He has also written a number of other information technology books, college success books, and health and social science texts. In his spare time, he and Stacey enjoy travel, music, cooking, hiking, and exploring the wilds of the American West.