Olga Curado is a journalist, writer and poet, and works as a media consultant. She has also worked as a reporter, editor and executive for the O Globo, Jornal do Brasil and O Estado de S. Paulo newspapers and, for almost fifteen years, for the Rede Globo television network, in Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, Belo Horizonte and London. She does crisis image management and trains leaders in interpersonal communication, with her own methodology, based on Aikido, the Japanese martial art that she is a black-belt (3rd Dan) in. She has published books of poetry, children's literature, short stories, and a novella, as well as media textbooks. (olgacurado.com.br)