Shannah Kennedy is a leading Australian business and life strategist. She is the author of bestseller Simplify, Structure, Succeed, The Life Plan and Chaos to Calm.

An advanced certified life coach and NLP practitioner, Shannah works individually and in groups with a diverse range of executives, entrepreneurs and sporting leaders including Olympians, CEOs and entrepreneurs.

Lyndall Mitchell is a coach, wellness expert, and founder of the Aurora Spa Group, Australia's pioneering, award-winning urban spa.

She is a leading coach, speaker and consultant with over twenty years' experience and expertise in the health and wellbeing industry. Lyndall is a passionate wellness advocate and a regular contributor on lifestyle, spa and wellness topics for the media.

Through her spas, coaching and speaking, Lyndall helps clients achieve their biggest, best and happiest lives by working with them to create a ‘big picture’ plan and then shows them how to turn that dream into a reality, one puzzle-piece at a time.

“I help people bridge the gap between where they are now and where they want to be. Whether its individuals, executives or entire organisations, I believe that with the right tools, motivation and support, we can all achieve our own vision of success.”

Ichiro Kishimi was born in Kyoto, where he still lives, in 1956. He has aspired to become a philosopher since his days in high school.

Since 1989, while specialising in Classical Western philosophy, with a special focus on Platonic philosophy, he has researched Adlerian psychology; he writes and lectures on the subject, and provides counselling for “youths” in psychiatric clinics as a certified counsellor and consultant for the Japanese Society of Adlerian Psychology.

He is the translator, into Japanese, of selected writings by Alfred Adler: Kojin Shinrigaku Kogi (The Science of Living) and Hito wa Naze Shinkeisho ni Naru no ka (Problems of Neurosis), and he is the author of Adora Shinrigaku Nyumon (Introduction to Adlerian Psychology), in addition to numerous other books.

Fumitake Koga, an award-winning professional writer and author, was born in 1973. He has released numerous bestselling works of business-related and general non-fiction.

He encountered Adlerian psychology in his late twenties, and was deeply affected by its conventional wisdom-defying ideas.

Thereafter, Koga made numerous visits to Ichiro Kishimi in Kyoto, gleaned from him the essence of Adlerian psychology, and took down the notes for the classical “dialogue format” method of Greek philosophy that is used in this book.