Now retired and living in the Boston area, Shea Smith III is the former Marketing Research Director and Assistant to the President and Secretary of the Executive Committee of Monsanto Company, which at that time was a major world chemical company. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and is the author of a previous book, "Strategies in Business." Since 1990, he has served as a volunteer strategic planning consultant to nonprofit organizations and small businesses through the Executive Service Corps of St. Louis and New England and Service Corps of Retired Executives of St. Louis. His experience with nonprofits covers multimillion dollar organizations as well as organizations with budgets of less than one million dollars, including schools, disability advocacy organizations, animal rescue services, mental health organizations, and community environmental services.