Andrew Erlich, Ph.D., is a prominent clinical psychologist, author, and nationally-known speaker. His newest book, The Long Shadows, is a true-life novel about the remarkable life of his beloved uncle, Jake Erlich (also known as Jack Earle), an accomplished artist, silent film star, circus performer, and at an astonishing 8 foot 6, one of the world’s tallest men.

Dr. Erlich spent ten years researching and writing the book, which he describes as both a labor of love and an inspiring example of human resilience and transcendence in the face of adversity. The Long Shadows is available at www.TheLongShadowsBook.com and major online retailers including Amazon.

Dr. Erlich is the author of two previous books, Selling to Latinos: Building a Bridge to Understanding, and Exploring Culture: Cultural Overviews and Insights. Both books provide essential insights drawn from his nearly three decades of cross-cultural research, motivational analysis and studies of organizational development.

Dr. Erlich is a frequent contributor to national news and business publications. His byline has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Adweek Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine and Advertising Age, among others. His cross-cultural insights and expert commentary have also been featured in Forbes, USA Today, Business Week, Newsweek and The New York Times. Dr. Erlich has appeared on a variety of local, national and international Spanish-language radio and television shows, including “La Nueva California,” a 19-part television series about the Latino population broadcast by Univision.

Dr. Erlich is also a renowned motivational speaker and educator whose speaking engagements include Freeing the Giant, The Yoga of Change, and Cross-Cultural Success.

In 2010 and 2011, Dr. Erlich was awarded the prestigious “Top5 Speaker” designation by Speakers Platform, one of the nation’s most prominent speakers bureaus. He also earned the “Platinum Speaker” designation offered by Meeting Planners International.

Dr. Erlich has been a clinical psychologist for more than thirty years. He began his first psychotherapy practice in Los Angeles in 1981 and opened his current practice in Scottsdale, Arizona, in 2002.

Fritz Maytag will regale us with stories about his early years at Anchor Brewing when it was the first and only craft brewery in the US.  He will also tell the tale of his 1989 recreation of “Sumerian Beer.”  This was the first serious effort to understand and recreate as accurately as possible the beers that were brewed in ancient Sumeria, circa 3000 BC.

Fritz Maytag was born in 1937 in Newton, Iowa. He spent many years in his youth enjoying living with his family in an adobe house built by George Ellis just a few hundred yards from the Ellis compound. He graduated from Stanford in 1959 with a liberal arts B.A., and then spent several years in graduate school at Stanford studying modern and classical Japanese.

Fritz purchased the Anchor Brewing Co. in 1965 and gradually developed the business until the brewery moved in 1979 to a new facility on Potrero Hill in San Francisco.

In August of 2010 Fritz sold the company and lived happily ever after.

Mr. Maytag continues as owner of York Creek Vineyards in the Spring Mountain appellation of Napa Valley, and as a Director of The Maytag Dairy Farms, his family’s blue cheese company in Newton, Iowa.