Where's the Avocado

speaker, and seminar leader, specializing in social trends, popular culture, business and work relationships, and professional and personal development. She has published over 50 books on diverse subjects with major publishers. She has worked with dozens of clients on memoirs, self-help, and popular business books, as well as film scripts. Her websites include www.changemakerspublishingandwriting.com and www.ginigrahamscott.com. She is a Huffington Post regular columnist, commenting on social trends, new technology, business, and everyday life at www.huffingtonpost.com/gini-graham-scott. She is the founder of Changemakers Publishing featuring books on social trends, work, business, psychology, and self-help, which has published over 100 print, e-books, and audiobooks. She has licensed several dozen books for foreign sales, including in the UK, Russia, Korea, Spain, Indonesia, and Japan. Her books on business include A Survival Guide for Working with Humans/Bosses/Employees, Scammed, Preventing Credit Card Fraud, Dealing with Impossible Clients, and Resolving Conflict. Some recent business books are: Make More Money with Your Book, Make More Money with Your Product or Service, The Complete Guide to E-Mail Marketing and Using the Dog Type System for Success in Business and the Workplace. Her books on science and technology include The Science of Living Longer, The Very Next New Thing, and Transformations. She has written numerous books on creativity and visualization, including Mind Power: Picture Your Way to Success; The Empowered Mind: How to Harness the Creative Force within You; Want It, See It, Get It!, and Turn Your Dreams into Reality. She has written a series of books on personality profiling. Her books on writing and publishing from Changemakers Publishing include Self-Publishing Secrets, Self-Publishing Your Book in Multiple Formats, How to Find and Work with a Good Ghostwriter, and Turn Your Blogs and Talks into Books. She has received national media exposure for her books, including appearances on Good Morning America, Oprah, and CNN. She has been the producer and host of a talk show series, CHANGEMAKERS, featuring interviews on social trends. Scott is active in a number of community and business groups, including the Lafayette, Danville, and Pleasant Hill Chambers of Commerce. She is a graduate of the prestigious Leadership in Contra Costa County program and is a member of a BNI group in Danville, B2B groups in Danville and Walnut Creek, and many other business networking groups. She is the organizer of six Meetup groups in the publishing and film industries with over 6000 members in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area. She has three other Meetup groups on personality profiling and coaching and counseling. She does workshops and seminars on the topics of her books. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and her J.D. from the University of San Francisco Law School. She received five MAs at Cal State, East Bay, including on Mass Communications and Organizational/Consumer/Audience Behavior, Pop Culture and Lifestyles, Recreation and Tourism, and Communication.