Ron Schultz has written, co-written and edited 30 published books on social innovation, meditation, emergence, science, and entrepreneurship. In 2014, he received the Social Innovation Leadership Award from the World CSR Congress. Among his books are: Creating Good Work - The World's Leading Social Entrepreneurs Show How to Build a Healthy Economy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013); The Complex Buddhist - Doing Good in a Challenging World, (Emergent Publications 2015); Open Boundaries: Creating Business Innovation through Complexity, (Perseus Books, 1998, Emergent Publications, 2023) and Unconventional Wisdom - Twelve Remarkable Innovators Tell How Intuition Can Revolutionize Decision Making (HarperCollins, 1994). In addition to his non-fiction book publishing credentials, Ron has written two Thriller series: The Dorje Shapiro Investigations and A Kae Zhang Thriller series with Sarah Lovett. Metal Viper is the first book in that series, Ron has written hundreds of nationally published magazine articles, and has had an extensive career in television and film. His dozens of TV and movie credits include, according to IMDB, one of the finest Movies of the Week produced to date, The Switch (aired January1991, CBS), and one of the worst feature films ever made, NightRaiders, now a cult classic. He also wrote six of the first thirty-six episodes of the internationally renowned children's television program, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. He was also a staff writer on the cartoon series, ZORRO.Ron has spoken and lectured at: The Skoll World Forum, the World CSR Congress, the Social Enterprise World Forum, the Oxford Jam and numerous Social Enterprise Alliance Summits. The universities at which he has spoken include: Trinity College, Dublin, Oxford University, MIT, UCLA, Adelphi University, and the Academy of Management's National Conference. Ron did his undergraduate work at California State University, Northridge, which has recently accepted his archives for its collection.