Adina Glickman is the founder and CEO of Affinity Coaching. She is also the co-founder and co-director of the Academic Resilience Consortium, an international association of higher education faculty, professional staff and students who actively promote academic resilience in higher education. Adina has a Master's Degree in social work and was a psychotherapist before shifting into educational consulting. She founded Stanford University's academic skills coaching resource and directed their learning strategies program for 15 years. Adina believes all students can fall in love with school, and is currently writing a book to help them do that. Adina is a mom and step-mom and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband of 25 years, two turtles, two cats and maybe someday a dog but only if someone else will walk it.