Contributors

Tessa G. Misiaszek is a speaker, writer and professor who throughout her professional and academic experience has examined the intersection between marketing strategy and workplace culture. Tessa completed her PhD at Simmons University in Boston and taught in the Simmons School of Management and Hult International Business School for several years. She also holds a master's degree in public health and a BSc in resource economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She spent nearly two decades developing human capital strategies to improve healthcare, with an emphasis on provider-patient communication. Today Tessa is an Instructor with Harvard Division of Continuing Education, co-founder of the Happy at Work Podcast, and a keynote speaker and consultant.

Catherine Millet is the editor of Art Press, an influential Paris art magazine. She has written books on modern art, including a monograph on the painter Yves Klein.

Born in Yorkshire, Rose Milligan later moved to North Lancashire, which was handy in her younger days for her love of fell-walking. Her poem 'Dust If You Must' was first published in The Lady magazine in 1998 and has since been quoted (and mis-quoted) in many and varied places. She passed away in 2024, beloved by many, including her great-great-grandchildren.

John G. Miller is the founder of QBQ, Inc., an organisational development company dedicated to making personal accountability a core value for organisations and individuals. QBQ, Inc. has worked with handredsd of Fortune 500 and other companies, governmental and non-government organizations around the world. Miller is the author of the bestselling QBQ! The Question Behind the Question and Flipping the Switch: Five Keys to Success at Work and in Life.

Jeremy Miller is an investment analyst for a leading New York-based mutual fund company. He has more than fifteen years of experience in the financial industry, having served in various capacities in equity sales and research at several of the world's largest investment banks.

William Miller is a television producer and media executive. He has worked with Uden Associates, Conde Nast and Nigella Lawson, becoming Nigella's business partner in producing her critically acclaimed cooking shows as well as managing her global brand business. Then, with BBC Worldwide, he partnered with high-profile talent including Louis Theroux, Kirsty Allsopp and Phil Spencer in order to build brands, businesses, and original programming. In 2014, he set up Raconteur, a new content and production development business which produces a range of ambitious factual entertainment shows. He is also working on a stage play about his father's friendship with Oliver Sacks. In 2009 William returned to Gloucester Crescent where he now lives, three doors from his parents, with his wife and two teenage daughters.

Barry Miles is an English writer, luminary of the sixties underground and businessman. In the 1960s, he was co-owner of the Indica Gallery and helped start the International Times. Miles has written biographies of McCartney, Lennon, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski and Allen Ginsberg, in addition to books on The Beatles, Pink Floyd and The Clash, and a general history of London's counter-culture since 1945, London Calling.

Tiya Miles is the Michael Garvey Professor of History and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at Harvard University. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the Cundill History Prize, and the Hiett Prize in the Humanities from the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. She has been awarded more than twenty historical and literary prizes for her books and articles on slavery and race. She is also the author of Ties That Bind, The House on Diamond Hill, The Cherokee Rose: A Novel of Gardens and Ghosts and Tales from the Haunted South, a published lecture series.

Keith Miller read history of art at Cambridge. He is a journalist, lecturer and reviewer living in London. This is his first book.

Dani Messerschmidt is a comedy writer and Murdle's creative director

Dunya Mikhail worked as a journalist for the Baghdad Observer before she was forced to flee Iraq. Her poetry collection The War Works Hard was shortlisted for the Griffin Prize. Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea won the 2010 Arab American Book Award for poetry. Dunya Mikhail has also been awarded the UN Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing. She currently lives in Michigan.

Rupert Merson teaches new venture development and managing growth at London Business School. Formerly a partner of BDO he now runs his own consultancy advising firms on how to manage growth. His has written several books on management, including Rules are Not Enough.