Daneen Skube, Ph.D., the director of Interpersonal Edge, has worked in the field of business consulting, counseling, and speaking for more than 27 years. Her company specializes in helping individuals and companies achieve peak performance through strategic communication skills.Dr. Skube’s lively and highly entertaining training and speaking engagements have helped Fortune 500 companies, health-care organizations, government agencies, and family and small businesses improve productivity and create harmony in the workplace. Her executive coaching and therapy practice has helped hundreds of individuals identify and achieve their dreams. Dr. Skube’s column, “Interpersonal Edge,” internationally syndicated through Tribune Media Services, has been assisting readers with workplace- and people-related issues for over a decade. Dr. Skube lives with her husband, daughter, and two cats in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains in Issaquah, Washington.