Creative Director and Director of Public Relations:

Gini Graham Scott, Ph.D., Director, Creative Communications & Research

Gini Graham Scott, Ph.D., J.D., is a screenplay writer as well as a nonfiction writer who has published over 50 books and hundreds of articles. One of her books -- DO YOU LOOK LIKE YOUR DOG -- published by Broadway Books/Random House is being developed as a television reality and game show. Another book -- HOMICIDE BY THE RICH AND FAMOUS -- published by Greenwood Press in March 2005 and in paperback by Berkley Books is being developed as a TV documentary or special.  The books were initially published and optioned by several producers as a result of e-queries.

Several of her scripts are under option to various producers and agents.  UNBALANCED is planned for production in November 2008 with VideoVue Films. 

She has also recent recently set up a film and TV production company, Changemakers Productions, with offices in Santa Monica and Oakland, California to package and distribute scripts based on her scripts.  The company is working on packaging three scripts with other co-producers.  These scripts are FLARE UP, NEW IDENTITY, and THE NEW CHILD, with three interested directors.

Some of her recent books and articles focus on work issues, creativity, business management, marketing, resolving conflict, and change. She is a speaker, workshop/seminar leader, and organizational consultant to business, government, and non-profit organizations. She has spoken to top executives, managers, professionals, and the general public.    

Her column on relationships in work and business has been in a dozen papers, including the Oakland Tribune and L.A. Downtown News.  The column was expanded into a book which was published as A SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR WORKING WITH HUMANS by AMACOM in 2004. Since then a series of follow-up books have been published by AMACOM, including A SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR WORKING WITH BAD BOSSES, A SURVIVAL GUIDE TO MANAGING EMPLOYEES FROM HELL, DISAGREEMENTS, DISPUTES, AND ALL OUT WAR, ENJOY: 101 LITTLE WAYS TO ADD FUN TO YOUR WORK EVERYDAY, and WANT IT, SEE IT GET IT! was published in .  These were all the result of an initial e-query to AMACOM.  She sold two books with an agent obtained through an e-query: A COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO PARTY PLAN SELLING to Alpha Book and WHEN I GROW UP, I'D LIKE TO BE A STURGEON: And Other Wrong Things that Kids Write to Sasquatch Book. 

She has been a featured guest on hundreds of TV and radio programs, including Oprah, Montel Williams, the O’Reilly Factor, CNN, and many others. She has been teaching classes on business, law, organizational behavior, public relations, marketing, management, psychological profiling, and privacy for the University of Notre Dame de Namur and the Investigative Career Program for private investigators in San Francisco. She has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California at Berkeley, a J.D. from the University of San Francisco Law School and M.A.s in Anthropology; Mass Communications and Organizational, Consumer, and Audience Behavior; and Popular Culture and Lifestyles from Cal State, East Bay.

Bio and promotional details are at www.giniscott.com; samples of books, articles, and other materials are at www.giniscott.net; a speaker's video you can view online is at www.ginigrahamscott.com/videoaudio.htm.  Information on scripts is a www.changemakersproductions.com