My Name is Steve Delano Bullock : How I Changed My World and The World Around Me Through Leadership, Caring, and Perseverance

Steve D. Bullock was one of 22 children born to a sharecropper in segregated North Carolina...

And rose to become the first African American President of the American Red Cross.

Now his book chronicles how his "Four Pillars" of God, Family, Education, and Career elevated him to a position to uplift humankind on a global scale.

He did that when personally hauling giant sacks of rice to Hurricane victims in Honduras... delivering aid to refugees in Bosnia... and providing resources for Americans stricken by floods, fires, tornadoes, and other tragedies.

Now his book can serve as a blueprint to empower your success in business and in life.

"I intend to add value to your life by presenting strategies for managing and overcoming the challenges and barriers that all of us encounter in the pursuit of our life's goals, including those involving gender bias, poverty, education, racism, youth, and aging," Steve writes in the Introduction of his powerful memoir.

"Throughout my career," he writes, "I have worked with people from all walks of life, and this book is written for everyone... In doing so, I pray that the stories, lessons, and life achievement strategies on the following pages will help you discover your potential and power within, so you can, as Emerson so eloquently said, make miracles happen for yourself and the world.

The proud father and grandfather is celebrating 56 years of marriage to Doris Bullock, whom he met in 1956 at Virginia Union University, an HBCU where he serves on the Board of Trustees.

As CEO of The Bullock Group, which provides consulting for businesses and non-profits, Steve teaches his self-styled model of defining and evaluating "Purpose, Preparation, Performance, and Results" when setting and working toward personal and professional goals.

You can read about this success formula in My Name Is Steve Delano Bullock: How I Changed My World and The World Around Me Through Leadership, Caring and Perseverance.

Steve D. Bullock spent 38 years with the American Red Cross, culminating with his appointment as Acting President following the departure of Elizabeth Dole. Prior to serving as Acting President of the national organization, he was the Chief Executive Officer of the Greater Cleveland Chapter of the American Red Cross. Under his leadership, the Greater Cleveland Chapter grew to become one of the nation's largest and most successful Red Cross chapters. Before leading the Greater Cleveland Chapter, Mr. Bullock served as Executive Director of the St. Paul Minnesota Chapter and worked for the national organization in a variety of capacities. In addition to his professional work, Mr. Bullock has served on numerous Boards of Trustees, in both the nonprofit and business sectors. He served on the Board of Education of the Cleveland Heights-University Heights City School District (president in 1991), as co-chairman of the Operation Desert Storm Homecoming Committee appointed by Mayor White, the Board of Trustees, New Cleveland Campaign, chaired the Marketing Cleveland-to-Clevelanders Committee, and was Chairman, Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations-Case Western Reserve University Executive Advisory Network. He also served on the Board of Directors, National City Bank, Board of Trustees, University Hospitals Health System, Board of Trustees, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Board of Trustees, Leadership Cleveland, Board of Trustees, Greater Cleveland Roundtable and chaired the Education Committee. He is currently a trustee of The City Club of Cleveland, AAA East Central, MetroHealth Foundation and Virginia Union University. He is an elected Councilman-At-Large in the City of University Heights, Ohio. Since 2002, Mr. Bullock has served as an Adjunct Instructor of Nonprofit Leadership at The Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Case Western Reserve University. Mr. Bullock has been recognized many times for his outstanding leadership and service to the community. He received the Leadership in Nonprofit Management Award from the Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations and the American Red Cross Tiffany Award, the highest award bestowed on a Red Cross staff member. He has also received recognition for his commitment to diversity and education. Mr. Bullock received an MBA from the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul Minnesota and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Virginia Union University. He has completed executive management programs at Northwestern University. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Youngstown State University. The Bullock Group was formed in 2000, bringing together a team of nonprofit management experts representing a variety of nonprofit management disciplines and specialties.

Elizabeth Ann Atkins is a best-selling author, actress, TV host and award-winning journalist who uses a multimedia platform to inspire people to unlock their infinite potential and live with passion, prosperity, health and happiness. Elizabeth's desire to empower others springs from a trailblazing matrix of colorblind love and courage from her mother, an African American and Italian judge, and her father, a former Roman Catholic priest who was English, French Canadian and Cherokee. They taught her to challenge the status quo by writing innovative ideas to edu-tain people. With a master's degree in Journalism from Columbia University and a bachelor's degree in English Literature from the University of Michigan, Elizabeth has written nearly 20 books, including novels White Chocolate, Dark Secret and Twilight (with Billy Dee Williams). She also composed My American Success Story: Always the First, Never the Last, a memoir for Roy S. Roberts, once the world's highest-ranking black automotive executive. Elizabeth and her sister, Catherine M. Atkins Greenspan, co-created Two Sisters Writing and Publishing to publish their own books, and to support other writers by holding short story contests and ultimately publishing an anthology of new writers. They ghostwrite under the name Atkins & Greenspan Writing. Current clients include executives, prominent government and civic leaders, physicians, a surgeon, an intuitive medium, a family that triumphed on NBC's The Biggest Loser, an insurance agent and a quadriplegic man who lived his dream to become a record company CEO. Her novellas about empowering women to overcome abuse and identity crises were published in My Blue Suede Shoes: An Anthology and Other People's Skin: An Anthology. A health and fitness enthusiast whose 100-pound weight loss was featured on Oprah, Elizabeth co-hosts a weekly television show, MI Healthy Mind, which promotes wellness by shattering stigmas around taboo topics such as mental illness, addiction and abuse. She is a popular writing coach whose PowerJournalTM program teaches people to enrich their lives with journal-writing. She has taught writing at Wayne State University, Oakland University, Wayne County Community College District, and at national conferences. A speaker who promotes human harmony, Elizabeth is represented by The American Program Bureau. She rouses ovations by reciting her autobiographical poem, White Chocolate, and has spoken at Columbia University, the University of Michigan, GM's World Diversity Day, Gannett, 100 Black Men, the NAACP, and many other venues. As an actress, Elizabeth plays a major role in the feature-length film Anything Is Possible, nominated for "Best Foreign Film" by the Nollywood and African Film Critics Association. She composed an original screenplay, Redemption, a gritty drama about a Detroit gangster and a writer. And Elizabeth plays a 1950s journalist in the international shipwreck drama, Are The Passengers Saved? Elizabeth has been a guest on Oprah, Montel, NPR, Good Morning America Sunday, The CBS Evening News, and many national TV shows. After writing her master's thesis about mixed-race Americans, her work appeared in The New York Times, The San Diego Tribune, Essence, Ebony and many publications. Her Detroit News articles on race were nominated for The Pulitzer Prize, and she wrote a biography for the Presidential Medal of Freedom tribute for Rosa Parks. Elizabeth runs, cycles, lifts weights, does yoga, journals and meditates to cultivate a joyous and peaceful mind, body and spirit.

Catherine Marie Atkins Greenspan published a series of young adult novels about a biracial protagonist. She has an M.A. in Writing from the University of San Francisco, she has taught university-level English, Creative Writing and English as a Second Language. Catherine and her sister, Elizabeth Ann Atkins, co-created Two Sisters Writing and Publishing to publish their own books, and to support other writers by holding short story contests and ultimately publishing an anthology of new writers. They ghostwrite under their name Atkins & Greenspan Writing. Catherine earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of Michigan. She and Elizabeth had a lot of upper-level English classes, together, including "Living Writers," with Professor Nicholas Delbanco. The highlight wasn't just interacting with Jamaica Kinkaid or Tim O'Brien. The fun was that often Elizabeth was so consumed by her job as an editor at The Michigan Daily that she didn't read the books. Catherine, having read the books, would brief Elizabeth on the plot, theme, and characters. Elizabeth took this information, and then asked some of the most direct, probing questions of the whole class! Catherine earned some writing grants when she lived in Nevada: from the Sierra Arts Foundation and the Nevada Arts Council. She's done extensive freelance writing and editing, including a recurring column in the Reno News & Review called Committed to Community, where she highlighted the work of local nonprofits. Her favorite, though, was doing restaurant reviews. She wrote regular book reviews, features articles and cover stories, including an interview with Nigerian playwright and poet, Wole Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature. The highlight of that interview was when he said in response to a probing question something to the effect of, "Nobody's ever asked me that before!" Catherine spent ten years working in the brokerage industry as a registered representative at both Fortune 100 companies as well as small, independent, family-owned businesses. Catherine serves as the state secretary and newsletter editor for AAUW-New Mexico, which advances equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy, and research. She also serves on the board of AAUW Tech Trek New Mexico, a nonprofit affiliate of AAUW-NM that holds annual camps at New Mexico Tech in Socorro, New Mexico, for rising eighth grade girls from all over New Mexico that promotes STEM learning. Catherine is a lifetime member of Weight Watchers and former meeting room leader where she inspired others to reach and maintain their target weight range through her firm belief in healthy living through moderation. Catherine has been writing books since she was five. A Michigan native, she has lived in California, Nevada, Oregon, Idaho and Tennessee. She lives in New Mexico.