BA, Harvard College; PhD, University of California, Berkeley. Co-Designer and Co-Leader, Wharton and Himalayan leadership seminar treks to Mt Everest. Principal, Peak Paradigms. Speaker on leadership and other topics to corporations and audiences including Sprint, Navigant Consulting, Association of Investment Management Sales Executives, Metropolitan Museum of Art and National Geographic Society. Featured in "Beyond the Mountaintops: Extraordinary Mountaineers, Extraordinary People," an exhibit on eight climbers who have pioneered advances in climbing and humankind, American Mountaineering Museum. Author of numerous publications, including award-winning book Sacred Mountains of the World, subject of an exhibition at Smithsonian Institution.