Business Rules, Inc. (BRI) began its life as a PC-based business analysis and software development project management consultancy in 1999. It helped Barnes & Noble, Inc. redesign its corporate help desk procedures, and managed an online lesson plan development project for Scholastic, Inc. 

BRI rediscovered the Mac in 2000, and has worked almost exclusively with the OS ever since.

Shelley Weiner, BRI's owner, is a native Brooklynite and graduate of Colby College and Columbia University. She started her career in the graphic arts as a production manager, and spent eight years in commercial printing sales before seeing the light as a computer consultant. She began teaching for Apple in 2003, moved permanently from New York City to the mid-Hudson Valley that same year, and opened BRI's training center in Rhinecliff in 2006.

Shelley is an Apple Certified Trainer, a member of the Apple Consultants Network, has published several artilces at MacDevCenter and has spoken at Macworld. Her passion is opening up minds to Mac OS X in training classes all over the United States.