Candace Klein is an educator, speaker, facilitator, and longtime leader in consensual non-monogamy, consent education, and relationship design. For more than a decade she has been an active member of sex-positive and polyamorous communities, facilitating workshops, mentoring newcomers, and helping individuals and couples navigate the complex realities of ethical non-monogamy with greater compassion, clarity, and integrity. Professionally, Candace has spent her career leading organizations and developing people, bringing the same thoughtful systems approach to relationships that she has applied to executive leadership. Her work bridges psychology, communication, attachment theory, consent, and lived experience, translating complex relational concepts into practical tools that readers can immediately apply. She is the creator of Polyagony, a three-book framework exploring the progression from foundational self-awareness, to lived experience, to the inevitable challenges of sustaining healthy open relationships over time. Candace identifies as bisexual, queer, and polyamorous, and believes that healthy relationships are built less on finding the “right” structure than on cultivating emotional honesty, accountability, and the courage to keep learning. She lives with her husband, family, and an ever-growing chosen family of friends, partners, and community members, where she continues to write, teach, host gatherings, and occasionally learn life’s biggest lessons the hard way.