Allison Wilkinson is the CEO and founder of the I Am School of Music, the Making Musicians Training Program, and author of Making Musicians: A Teacher’s Guide to Emotionally Intelligent Music Instruction (G-11253). Each year, she teaches the tools of applied music psychology to music educators around the world, from Australia to Zimbabwe and everywhere in between. A veteran teacher with more than 15,000 hours of direct teaching and many more in research, Allison is also the mother of four children and the favorite aunt of twenty-two more (and counting).