Leena Augimeri is the Director of Program Development and Centre for Children Committing Offences at the Child Development Institute in Toronto. CDI is a community-based, multi-service organization specializing in services for children under 12 years of age. Leena participates in research and development, and is responsible for all national and international activities regarding the Institute’s model interventions for children with conduct problems, such as SNAP – an under-12 outreach project, Girls Connection, and SNAP for Schools. She is also an adjunct assistant professor and sessional lecturer at the University of Toronto, and is the co-author of the Early Assessment Risk List for Boys and Girls, which has been translated into many languages and used around the world to assess risk for future offending in children. In 2005, she was presented with the Child Welfare League of Canada’s Outstanding Achievement Research and Evaluation Award. She is also the mother of two school-age children.

Terry Carson, M.Ed. is a certified Parenting Coach, educator and mother of four. A popular resource as a parenting coach expert throughout North America she’s been featured repeatedly in the media including The Globe and Mail, Today’s Parent, Planet Parent, Save Us From Our House, Breakfast Television, Yummy Mummy and countless radio shows and publications. She helps her parent clients get back their control without spanking or shouting.

Kang Lee is Director and Professor at the Institute of Child Study, University of Toronto. He received his BSc. and MED in China and Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of New Brunswick. He has been studying lying in children for more than a decade with over 60 peer-reviewed publications on lying and related issues. He is also an associate editor of Developmental Science, one of the top journals in developmental psychology. He is currently studying whether children as young as 2 years of age are able to tell lies, and social and cognitive factors that contribute to children's ability to tell lies.