Adele Sommers Ph.D. is the author of the award-winning "Straight Talk on Boosting Business Performance" program. For over two decades she has helped people "discover and recover" the profits their businesses may be losing every day through overlooked performance potential. Adele is president of the five-time award-winning San Luis Obispo California chapter of the Society for Technical Communication (STC). She has been a college instructor specializing in project planning and systems thinking.