Dr. Paul Powers is a management psychologist, executive coach, and career expert, and a former US Marine. He formerly served as chairman of the Massachusetts Board of Psychologists, and received his degrees from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Dr. Powers also helped to found the Management Corps for the Emerging East, a nonprofit initiative to send American business volunteers to work in enterprises of the republics of the former Soviet Union to assist in their transition to a free market economy with hands-on management skills and techniques. He speaks widely on career matters, and was a co-host of CareerTalk, a call-in show on a major Boston radio station.