迈克尔˙雷（Michael Ray）：斯坦福大学企管研究所创意与创新行销课程的教授，也是社会心理学家，在行销沟通以及为企业与个人发展创造性环境的领域中，具有丰富的经验。《快速企业》（Fast Company）杂志称他是“硅谷最有创意的人”。他有一百多种著作，包括十本书，其中两本是消费者资讯处理领域的先驱著作，有两本则有助于建立与发展企业新典范。

他与迈尔斯(Rochelle Myers)合著的畅销书《创意革命：如何激发企业人创造力》，被《公司》(Inc.)杂志提名为九本“最伟大的商业书”之一；《平凡英雄之路》(The Path of the Everyday Hero)获选为年度最佳商业自助书籍；与高曼（Daniel Goleman）及高夫曼(Paul Kaufman)合著的《创意精灵》(The Creative Spirit)，灵感来自于他在斯坦福商学院的“个人商业创意”课程，为美国公共电视网（PBS）同名节目的指定书籍，他还与创意课程的老师合作撰写《基础对话》(Conversations on the Basics)。

雷在各地演讲，并且担任许多组织团体的顾问，指导过的企业包括大型零售商、食品公司、目录公司、新成立的航空公司、全国性有线电视系统公司、广告公司以及四家非营利机构。

"The Highest Goal" brings the secret and discoveries of the famed Stanford Business School creativity course to people who hunger for the highest way through this world, whether they are focusing on business or not. Ray's distinctive combination of practical analysis, spiritual motivation and creativity both inspires and provides proven implementation approaches that people can use every day. Through twenty-five years of teaching Stanford University's famed Personal Creativity in Business course, Michael Ray discovered that people who move beyond ordinary success and achievement have a secret. They live for a highest goal that drives them to accomplish their dreams, find fulfillment and become generative leaders. Here Ray shares that secret and shows how you too can thrive by incorporating this powerful secret into your daily life. The "Highest Goal" guides you with a distinctive set of "live-withs" or credos that you can use to translate your highest goal into a new way of living. These principles can transform your life.