Richard Guare, Ph.D. is a Clinical Psychologist with a specialization in Neuropsychology. He is Director of the Center for Learning and Attention Disorders at Seacoast Mental Health Center.  He also trains coaches for the MDRC MyGoals project and has been a training consultant for AECF programs, The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Mathematica, and Public Strategies. With his co-authors, Peg Dawson and Colin Guare, he has written a number of books on executive skills and coaching. They also have developed an executive skills training model for coaches who are working with adults affected by conditions of poverty and stress.

Ruthie Liberman, MSA is the Vice President for Public Policy at Economic Mobility Pathways (EMPath) an organization whose mission is to help people move out of poverty and to provide the tools for other organizations to do the same.  Ruthie has a Bachelor’s Degree from Pomona College in government and public policy as well as a Masters Degree in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. With 25 years of experience in nonprofit strategy, policy and program management, Ruthie has spent over fifteen years at EMPath (formerly known as Crittenton Women’s Union), and previously worked in major hospital settings such as Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She also ran a Pediatric and Family AIDS program at Dimock Community Health Center.  A native of California, Ruthie served as a Senate Fellow in the California Legislature and as the Director of Public Policy for Planned Parenthood Los Angeles.