Donald Minnick is a licensed psychologist and the author of two business books: ‘Survive Downsizing: how to keep your job and become essential to your company’(iUniverse, 2009); and ‘The Phoenix Factor: strategies for becoming an indispensable contributor in a post-pandemic world’(Amazon Publishing, 2021). His most recent non-business book: ‘Artists in the Texas Hill Country’, (Lamar University Press, 2021) is the first in a series of such books, - photo essays and candid interviews with 37 Texas artists. He is developing a business book and pod-cast: ‘Effective Leadership: for Community Political and Civic Organizations’