Overcoming the Overwhelming: How to Turn Adversity into Success

Charles King grew up in segregated, rural South Carolina. During his formative years people of his race were deprived of full citizenship privileges. In this environment Charles learned to excel and achieve in spite of the existing conditions.Following a very successful military career spanning eleven years, Charles earned his Masters degree and went on to form his own training and consulting firm. Despite the advice from friends and community leaders that ventures such as his, where he had to convince predominantly white managers in corporations to use his services, he could not succeed, Charles persisted in following his dream.Against such a backdrop, Charles king became one of America's most stirring and inspirational speakers and consultants.Charles King went on to provide services to such organizations as: Allen Bradley, Babcock & Wilcox, Firestone Tire and Rubber, General Electric, The former Goodyear Aerospace, The States of North Carolina and Ohio, Ohio Bell, Indiana Bell, US Office of Personnel and USEPA, and others.Rebounding from terminal illness, the death of a son to suicide, going broke, and numerous other setbacks, Charles King has developed and sure outlook that comes through in personal confidence and faith. Charles King has been there and he has learned how to communicate it so that if you go there you will use the principle he gives you to do the same in your own way. For more than thirty-five years Charles King has been electrifying audience to follow these principles and master life, no matter what it brings. This is a "must have book", not for the bookshelf but for masterful living.