Biagio Sciacca

Biagio "Bill" Sciacca, known to his friends as "Bill" grew up in the coal mining district of Northeast PA. He holds a bachelors degree in Philosophy and Sociology, and a Masters and PhD in Business Administration.

In addition to developing his career in business and entrepreneurship, he taught at the university level since 1982, and, recently retired from a full time academic post at Penn State University, one of the top 10 research universities in the world, where he lectures in Micro and Macro Economics, Marketing, Leadership, Strategic Management and Interpersonal Skills in Business.

In addition to his academic post, Bill is a serial entrepreneur owning an award winning consulting and training organization, a chain of donut and ice cream franchises, and several businesses in the automotive/car care industry. Bill's consulting company touts several thousand clients from locally owned firms to multinational Fortune 500 companies.

Bill divides his free time between doing research in creativity, Southern Italian cooking, writing fiction, and writing and recording his own songs with guitar. He is also a certified SPIN instructor.

He currently resides on Tamarindo, Costa Rica where he divides his time between on line coaching and training and researching his next book.

Education

• PhD Cambridge International University (1999 — 2004)
• MBA Wilkes University (1979 — 1982) BA/BS King's College (1975 — 1979)