Patricia Ann Russell Patricia Ann Russell is an entrepreneur, executive coach, and author. Having taught Divorce Seminars from a spiritual perspective for over a decade, she knows both subjects--divorce and spirituality--intimately. She has also taught these conceptsin her consulting practice to more than five thousand participants for well over fifteen years, in both private and public institutions. It was her public Divorce Ceremony in late 1998, which she wrote about for the Democrat and Chronicle, her local Rochester, New York newspaper that began her writing career.

Ms. Russell invented and tested a unique approach to accelerate the healing process of divorce, which later became the framework for a course, entitled Cultural Competence and Mutual Respect (CCMR) used by healthcare and higher education institutions to learn how to be more mindful in their interactions with others. She holds both Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Dayton and the University of Rochester, respectively. Read More Read Less