While at Stanford University, Harry Beckwith won the national collegiate journalism award, was named Oregon Law Review Editor-in-Chief, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1972. He worked as a federal judicial clerk, a medical malpractice and personal injury trial attorney, legal counsel to the city of Portland, Oregon, and for an advertising agency. He currently works with twenty-three Fortune 500 companies and is a branding consultant. He has written numerous marketing books including Selling the Invisible, which was named one of the top ten business and management books of all time.