Biography - Tom Donelan

Tom has lived in Cleveland, Ohio for all of his thirty-five years. Tom attended St. Edward High School in Lakewood, Ohio, graduating in 1987. In 1992, Tom earned an Accounting degree from John Carroll University. By that time, he had already been working for Manco, Inc., a consumer products marketing and distribution company, for three years. Tom stayed with Manco, now Henkel Consumer Adhesives, for another seven years, and during that time he became the company's youngest vice president ever at the age of twenty-seven. He was responsible for global sourcing and North American logistics at the company.

In 1999, Tom left Manco to start an Internet company. It was the heyday of easy money for technology ideas. The heyday ended three months into 2000, and the company Tom started ended a month after that. Since then, Tom has consulted and has worked as an executive for several entrepreneurial ventures. He's currently a vice president with Shearer's Foods, Inc., a Northeast Ohio snack food manufacturer.

Tom and his wife, Ginny, have three children: Connor, Emily, and Brandon. Connor, their oldest child, was born with autism. Autism is a neurological disorder that adversely affects a child's communication, social, and behavioral skills. Tom has served as President of the Autism Society of Greater Cleveland, and has written an awareness video produced for the Autism Society of America.

Leading From the Heart, which Tom wrote with Jack Kahl, is Tom's first book.