J.A. Rodríguez Jr. is a senior manager for a Fortune 150 company. He has over twenty-seven years of professional work environment experience. The last twenty-two years of experience are in leadership roles of increasing responsibility.

Rodriguez is an author, mentor, inventor (patent# 5,285,961), martial arts instructor, and musician. His book, “Not Intuitively Obvious – Transition to the Professional Work Environment”, is a concise senior manager’s memoir of lessons learned from over twenty-seven years of experience in the professional work environment.

The book identifies the mindsets professionals must embrace in order to jump-start their career and is written from a boss’s viewpoint and an organizational perspective. The concepts of perception management and expectation fulfillment are also introduced as tools to create and sustain a great reputation in the eyes of the organization and the customer.

During economically strained times, only those organizations with informed employees who master the noted approaches are better poised to beat the competition in the international marketplace.

Additional information is available at the following websites:

• www.NotIntuitivelyObvious.com
• www.AuthorsDen.com/jarodriguezjr

Rodriguez has delivered keynote speeches, professional development seminars, and inspirational talks at the following institutions:

• Virginia Commonwealth University, November 2008 and April 2009
• Old Dominion University, April 2009
• Yale University, April 2009
• George Mason University, July 2009
• University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management, September 2009
• University of Maryland at College Park, October 2009
• Pace University, November 2009