I interviewed Babs Ryan on my radio show this week, Business Insanity. She has successfully boomeranged from senior leadership roles in Fortune 100 companies to small-business owner with clients in 207 countries. She was GE Capital division head of new product development, Citibank VP of business development, and chief marketing officer at motorcycle giant Kawasaki UK (and by the way, there is a great picture of her on her Kawasaki motorcycle on the back cover of her book exceeding 150 mph on a Ninja 900 at the Grand Prix circuit in Austria- I would buy her new book just for that) Babs has seven U.S. patents applications. She has traveled in 78 countries and worked abroad for 11 years. She is founder and president of Chicago-based enterprise Sparks Worldwide, which forecasts global consumer trends and translates them into new products for multi-national companies. She is the author of the new business book, America’s Corporate Brain Drain, which explains why the best people have left big companies and what that means for consumers.