Barbara Kerr, Ph.D., is the Williamson Family Distinguished Professor of Counseling Psychology and Co-Director of the Center for Creativity and Entrepreneurship Education at the University of Kansas. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Missouri. Dr. Kerr is the author of seven books, including A Handbook for Counseling Gifted and Talented; Smart Girls in the Twenty-First Century; Smart Girls: New Psychology of Girls, Women, and Talent Development; Smart Boys: Talent, Manhood, and the Search for Meaning.She is a winner of the NAGC Torrance Award for Contributions to Creativity, the Esther Katz Rosen Award for Research in Gifted Education, and she is an American Psychological Association Fellow, named one of the 25 most influential psychologists in the study of giftedness by APA. Dr. Kerr currently directs the Counseling Laboratory for the Exploration of Optimal States (CLEOS), where creative adolescents and adults learn to navigate the invisible pathways to creative careers