About
Two maiden names. Two mothers.
Corso & Alexander is named for the mothers of David Luria and his wife, Anita. It is not a brand. It is a debt, acknowledged on the door.
David Luria
David is an author, a yoga teacher and a composer. Born in Medellín in 1965, he spent more than twenty years in finance and enterprise software adoption, including as a vice president and business manager at a global asset manager. He is a PMP, a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and a Prosci Change Management practitioner.
The lesson behind the credentials: buying the technology is easy. Getting people to use it, trust it and do better work with it is the hard part. His books follow that same person out of the office, to the adult child stuck on hold with a bank, and to anyone trying to stay steady while life changes.
He writes and edits every book himself, in plain words: if a sentence needs translating, it has more work to do. Here is how the AI tools fit in →
The books
Every title, with who wrote it and under what name.
A parent is changing
- Managing Mom’s Money With LoveDavid Luria2026
- When the Keys GoDavid Luria, with Estela Luria as subject-matter expert2026
You are changing
- Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There.David Luria · coming soonNext
- Cancer Patient AffirmationsDavid Luria, published under the pen name John Elliot2022
- Soulmate Seeker AffirmationsDavid Luria, published under the pen name John Elliot · audiobook narrated by Dan Levy2023
Your organization is changing
- Flatten the AI J-CurveDavid Luria2026
- The Failure of I.T. Project ManagementDavid Luria · the first book, written before there was a press2022
The name on the door
CORSO
1936 · Biloxi, Mississippi
David’s mother.
ALEXANDER
1948 · Hyderabad, India
Anita’s mother.
They never met. They lived on different continents, and each raised a child who would one day find the other. Tempered Press is the company’s book imprint.
Write to David.
David reads every message.