Karen Salmansohn

Karen Salmansohn left a job as senior VP and advertising creative director, at the tender age of 26, to pursue writing and is now a best selling author with over 1 million books sold. She is the author of How to be Happy, Dammit; Enough, Dammit and Ballsy: 99 Ways To Score Extreme Success. Her newest is The Bounce Back Book: How to Thrive in the Face of Adversity, Setbacks, and Losses. She is a regular contributor to Huffingtonpost.com, and writes a popular business column for amNY newspaper called "The 1 Minute Career Therapist." Her personal goal is to stir things up...wake up sleepy minds hearts and spirits...spread positive propaganda throughout the land! Altogether she has written 29 books, 5 TV development deals, 2 film deals - and one perfume.

Her PT blog is Bouncing Back.