Michael E. Gerber is the Founder and Chief Dreamer of Michael E. Gerber Companies, a group which was launched in 1977 with the creation of The Michael Thomas Corporation, to provide small business owners and entrepreneurs with the help they need to build a business that works. Since then, Michael E. Gerber and his companies have provided more than 70,000 small and emerging business-owner clients and entrepreneurs with the means to radically transform their companies and their lives. The Michael E. Gerber Companies group is fast becoming the largest and most effective entrepreneurial development resource of its kind in the world. Thought by many to be the leading voice of small business and entrepreneurship in America, Michael E. Gerber has spoken to thousands of small business owners, entrepreneurs, managers and corporate executives throughout the world about the truly profound role the entrepreneurial perspective can play in the reinvention of the world's economy and culture. His message is unique, compelling, and pragmatic. And best of all, as his millions of readers and followers can attest, it works.