Parker J. Palmer is founder and senior partner of the Center for Courage and Renewal (CourageRenewal.org). Author of seven books—including A Hidden Wholeness, Let Your Life Speak, and The Courage to Teach—he holds a PhD in sociology from U.C. Berkeley and 10 honorary doctorates. In 1998, the Leadership Project, a national survey of 10,000 educators, named him one of the 30 “most influential senior leaders” in higher education and one of the 10 key “agenda-setters” of the past decade. In 2005, Jossey-Bass published Living the Questions: Essays Inspired by the Work and Life of Parker J. Palmer.