Dixie Lee Wright

Dixie Lee Wright is a job retention specialist with more than 20 years of experience in career development and marketing. She has developed classes and workshops for special education, state rehabilitation, and nonprofit organizations at both the high school and college levels. As a job coach, she has mediated successful solutions to differences between hundreds of employers and employees.

In her newest book, Job Survival: How to Adjust and Keep Your Job, Ms. Wright shows how to adjust to the rapidly changing world of work. It is written for anyone who has been out of the workplace for various reasons or who has trouble keeping a job. She delivers the message, "You must see the work site as it is, not as you would like it to be, and then adjust. The work site will not adjust to you." She also provides the practical methods and tools to help individuals accomplish this successfully.

Her other book, Know-How Is the Key: Job Smarts for Students with Learning and Other Disabilities, shares her experience and firsthand knowledge of the reasons why some workers succeed in a job and others fail. "I want persons with disabilities to make a successful transition from school to work, have choices in the job at which they will work, and keep that job for as long as they enjoy it."