Curriculum Vitae
of
Claude Whitmyer


POB 882493
San Francisco, CA 94188
O: 415-648-2667
F: 415-824-2651
E: claude@meaningfulwork.com
W: http://www.futureu.com/

• Business Educator (15 years)

  Recent subject areas: Business Finance and Financial Management Strategies, Corporate Policy and Ethics, Personal Mastery, Transformational Leadership, Systems Thinking, How Adults Learn, Mindfulness and Meaningful Work, Strategic Management Practices, Strategic Human Resource Practices, Strategic Information Systems Practices.

  • Course Developer, Instructor, Faculty Advisor
    • "Fellowship in Creating Healthier Communities," Health Forum, San Francisco, 1996 to present.
    • "Accelerating Community Transformation," Health Forum, San Francisco, 1997 to 1998.

  • Curriculum Consultant/Project Manager
    • "Center for Professional Education," University of Phoenix Online, 1996 to 1997.

  • Founding Director and Associate Professor
    • "Master of Arts in Business Program," California Institute of Integral Studies, 1993 to 1996.

  • Business Instructor
    • American Hospital Association, Health Forum, 1996 to present.
    • Center for Good Work, San Francisco, 1989 to present.
    • Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center, San Francisco, 1988 to present.
    • Holy Names College, Orinda, California, 1997.
    • Prescott College, Prescott, Arizona, 1997.
    • Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chausées, Paris, Berkeley, California, 1995.
    • McKinnon School of Massage, Oakland, California, 1993 & 1994.
    • Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont, 1993.
    • Writers Connection, Cupertino, California, 1992.
    • Heald Business College, San Francisco, 1992.
    • Noren Institute, San Francisco, 1984 to 1989.
    • New College of California, San Francisco, 1984 to 1986.

• Small Business Owner (20 years), including:
  • Natural cosmetics manufacturing company
  • Energy-efficient appliance distribution company
  • Urban-oriented alternative energy/appropriate technology retail store
  • Small-business computer consultancy
  • Private business school
  • Vocational guidance practice
  • Computer-mediated training consultancy

• Management Consultant (15 years), specializing in:
  • Values-Based Management Practices
  • Marketing and Market Research
  • Strategic Business Planning
  • Personnel and Career Guidance
  • Growth Management
  • Partnership Mediation
  • Computer-mediated communications
  • Small-business automation

• Media Expert (10 years) Small business and business computing, featured in local publications such as California Magazine and San Francisco Bay Guardian; national publications such as Newsweek, PC World, Home Office Computing, The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog, and Business Ethics; and nationally syndicated radio talk shows.

• Non-fiction Writer (17 years)
  • Editor, Mindfulness and Meaningful Work: Explorations in Right Livelihood (Parallax Press, 1994).
  • Editor, In the Company of Others: Making Community in the Modern World (Putnam/Tarcher, 1993).
  • Co-author, Running A One-Person Business, (Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1994, 2nd ed., with Salli Raspberry).
  • Columnist, "Focus On Software," The Office, monthly, April 1987 to November 1993.
  • Journalist, feature articles for national periodicals such as Working Woman, Macintosh Business Review, Truly Portable Computers; Book reviews in Shambhala Sun, Tricycle, AHP Perspective, Journal of Management Consulting; articles in numerous local periodicals, 1980 to present.

• "Technology Infusion Into the Pre-service Teacher Certification Curriculum," College of Natural and Applied Sciences, Southwest Missouri State University, November, 1999-May, 2000.
• "Virtual Teams: Learning and Communicating Online," RealChange Network, February & March, 2000.
• "Technology-Enriched Learning and Communication," The Health Forum Fellowship in Creating Healthier Communities, San Francisco, March, 2000.
• "Make the Most of Teaching Online with Web-Course Authoring Tools," Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Arecibo, February, 2000.
• "An Overview of Online Instruction and Pedagogy," Syllabus99, Santa Clara California, July, 1999.
• "Make the Most of Teaching Online with Web-Course Authoring Tools," Merced Community College, Merced, California, June, 1999.
• "Applying the Adult Learning Model to Creating an Online Course," College of Natural and Applied Sciences, Southwestern Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri, May, 1999.
• "Creating an Online Course Using Web Course in a Box," College of Natural and Applied Sciences, Southwestern Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri, May, 1999.
• "Creating an Online Course Using Web Course in a Box," Tenth International Conference on Teaching and Learning, Jacksonville, Florida, April, 1999.
• "Facilitating Online Learning," Saybrook Graduate School, San Francisco, Spring and Summer 1998.
• "Teaching and Training Online," FutureU, San Francisco, Spring 1998.
• "Building an On-Line Learning Community: Dynamics, Space, Leadership, Participation," Accelerating Community Transformation, A Project of the Health Forum, San Francisco, Spring, 1998.
• "Developing Sustainable Community Leadership," Accelerating Community Transformation, A Project of the Health Forum, San Francisco, Summer, 1997.
• "Personal Mastery: The Path to Organizational Transformation," The Health Forum Fellowship in Creating Healthier Communities, San Francisco, Spring 1997, '98, '99, 2000.
• "Transformational Leadership and Systems Thinking," The Health Forum Fellowship in Creating Healthier Communities, San Francisco, Summer 1996, 97, '98, '99.
• "Building an On-Line Learning Community: Dynamics, Space, Leadership, Participation," The Health Forum Fellowship in Creating Healthier Communities, San Francisco, Spring, 1996, 97, '98.
• "Using the On-line Classroom: Computer Mediated Adult Learning," California Institute of Integral Studes, Fall 1993-4, 1994-5.
• "Adult Learning: The Art and Science of Transformation, " California Institute of Integral Studes, Fall 1993-4, 1994-5.
• "Starting and Running a Small Business," California Institute of Integral Studes, Winter 1994-5.
• "Systems Thinking in Management and Organizations," California Institute of Integral Studes, Summer 1994-5.
• "Management and Organization Theory: A Global Perspective," California Institute of Integral Studes, Summer 1994, Winter 1994-5.
• "Live Your Values, And Still Pay the Bills," California Institute of Integral Studes, Winter 1994-5.
• "Leadership and Organizational Transformation," California Institute of Integral Studes, Winter 1994-5.
• "Career Choices: Marketing Your Master of Arts in Business," California Institute of Integral Studes, Winter 1994-5.
• "Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Empowerment and Creativity in Business," California Institute of Integral Studes, Spring 1994-5.
• "The One-Person Business Conference on the WELL," Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, 1988-90.

• Corporate Trainer (Various corporate clients, including Pacific Bell, Fujitsu America, Softyme, etc., 1985 to 1990.)
  • "Using Telecommunications,"
  • "Operating Systems Basics,"
  • "Computer Equipment Basics,"
  • "Basic Computer Literacy,"

• Manager & Senior Instructor
  • Learning Resource Center, New College of California, San Francisco, 1985-1986. In-house computing program for faculty, staff, and students. Conducted feasibility study, designed and implemented business plan to make center self-supporting and accessible to the community at large. Planned and marketed bi-lingual (English and Spanish) curriculum, recruited instructors, created policy manual, and developed membership program.

• Instructor
  • "Using Mindfulness to Find Meaningful Work," ACCORD Organizational Development Network, Toronto, May 1997.
  • "Understanding Financial Statements," Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center, San Francisco, twice annually, 1995 to 1998.
  • "Financial Management: Techniques & Strategies," Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center, San Francisco, twice annually, 1995 to 1998.
  • "Financials By Computer," Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center, San Francisco, 3 times annually, 1987 to 1993.
  • "Running A One-Person Business," Noren Institute, San Francisco, twice annually, 1984-1989.
  • "Marketing Without Advertising," Noren Institute, San Francisco, twice annually, 1984-1989.
  • "The ABCs of Starting and Running Your Own Healing Arts Business," McKinnon School of Massage, Oakland, California, 1993, 1994.
  • "Starting a Values-Focused Business," Summer Institute, Center for Business and Democracy, Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermon, 1993.
  • "Values-Focused Management," Summer Institute, Center for Business and Democracy, Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermon, 1993.
  • "Do What You Love, & Still Pay the Bills: Running a One-Person Writing Business," Writers Connection, Cupertino, California, 1992.
  • "Introduction to Microcomputers," Heald Business College, San Francisco, 1992.
  • "Basic Keyboarding," Heald Business College, San Francisco, 1992.
  • "Building Support For Right Livelihood," The Center for Good Work, San Francisco, 1990.
  • "Breaking Through to Good Work," The Center for Good Work, San Francisco, 1990.
  • "Running a One-Person Business," The Center for Good Work, San Francisco, 1990.

• Co-Instructor
  • "Grassroots Marketing," Western Alliance of Arts Administrators, Seattle, Washington, 1990.
    
  • "The Knack of Running Your Own Contracting Business," Thousand Island Institute, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 1989.
  • "Managing Projects," Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center, San Francisco, 3 times annually, 1987 to 1993.
  • "Time Management," Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center, San Francisco, 3 times annually, 1987 to 1993.
  • "Choosing Technology," Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center, San Francisco, 3 times annually, 1987 to 1993.
  • "Financial Projections," Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center, San Francisco, 3 times annually, 1987 to 1993.
  • "Honest Management I: When Personnel Matter," Noren Institute, San Francisco, twice annually, 1984-1989.
  • "Honest Management II: Growth Management," Noren Institute, San Francisco, twice annually, 1986-1989.
  • "Fun In Business," Noren Institute, San Francisco, twice annually, 1984 through 1989.
  • "Honest Selling," Noren Institute, San Francisco, twice annually, 1985.
  • "Honest Consulting," Noren Institute, San Francisco, twice annually, 1985.
  • "Alternative Ways to Finance Your Business," Noren Institute, San Francisco, twice annually, 1984-85.
  • "New Ways Of Doing Business," Narings Liv, Stockholm, Sweden, Summer, 1984 (workshop tour).
  • "Honest Management." Narings Liv, Karlstadt, Sweden, Summer, 1984 (workshop tour).
  • "The Impact Of Computers On Small Business," Institute Fortagsütveckling, Tröllhaten, Sweden, Summer, 1984 (workshop tour).
  • "Business Networks," Kürsbyn Körpberget, Kramförs, Sweden, Summer, 1984 (workshop tour).

Graduate, Post Graduate, and Private Business Education Programs for which Claude Whitmyer has acted as Advisor, Teacher, or Administrator:

• Associate Professor, Master of Arts in Business, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco

• As Primary Instructor:
  • "Using the On-line Classroom: Computer Mediated Adult Learning," Fall 1993-4, 1994-5.
  • "Adult Learning: The Art and Science of Transformation, " Fall 1993-4, 1994-5.
  • "Starting and Running a Small Business," Winter 1994-5.
  • "Systems Thinking in Management and Organizations," Summer 1994-5.
  • "Management and Organization Theory: A Global Perspective," Summer 1994, Winter 1994-5.
  • "Live Your Values, And Still Pay the Bills," Winter 1994-5.
  • "Leadership and Organizational Transformation," Winter 1994-5.
  • "Career Choices: Marketing Your Master of Arts in Business," Winter 1994-5.
  • "Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Empowerment and Creativity in Business," Spring 1994-5.
  • "Communication: Diversity, Negotiation, Mediation, Conflict Resolution, Facilitation," Spring 1994-5.

• As Cohort Leader (facilitation and learning integration)
  • "Systems Thinking in Management and Organizations," Fall 1993-4.
  • "Learning Organizations and Organizational Learning," Fall 1993-4.
  • "Accounting and Finance for Managers and Entrepreneurs," Winter 1994-5.
  • "Economics, Business, and Society: The Ecology of Commerce," Winter 1994-5.
  • "Marketing: From Consumerism to Community Service," Spring 1994-5.
  • "Information Payoff: Technology and Information Management," Spring 1994-5.
  • "Qualitative Research Methods: From Observation to Empowerment," Spring 1994-5.
  • "Quantitative Research Methods: Statistical Analysis for Strategic Intent," Fall 1994-5.
  • "Planning and Strategic Thinking: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally," Fall 1994-5.
  • "Using a Ropes Course to Launch a Learning Community," Fall 1994-5.
  • "Environmental Management," Winter 1994-5.
  • "Human Resource Development: A Systems Approach," Winter 1994-5.

• Adjunct Faculty
  
  • "Corporate Policy and Ethics," MBA program, Holy Names College, Orinda, California, Spring 1997.
  • "Independent Study: Starting and Running a Small Environmental Education Business," Prescott College, Prescott, Arizona, Spring 1997.
  • "Introduction to Microcomputers, with hands-on laboratory," New College of California, San Francisco, Fall & Winter 1985, Spring & Fall, 1986.
  • Workshops on:
    • "Computer Applications for the Small Time Operator, New College of California, San Francisco, Spring, 1986.
    • "Basic Computer Literacy," New College of California, San Francisco, Fall & Winter 1985, Spring & Fall, 1986.
    • "Introduction to Word processing on the Prime Minicomputer for staff, faculty, and students," New College of California, San Francisco, Fall, 1986.

• Instructor
  • "Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Empowerment and Creativity in Business," Master of International Business program, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chausées, Paris, Berkeley, California, Summer 1995

• Graduate Teaching Assistant
  • "Introduction to Statistics," Psychology Department, University of Washington, Seattle, 1973.
  • "Animal Learning Laboratory," Psychology Department, University of Washington, Seattle, 1972.
  • "Human Performance Laboratory," Psychology Department, University of Washington, Seattle, 1972.

• Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
  • "Seminar in Behavior Modification," Psychology Department, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1972.
  • "Physiological Psychology," Psychology Department, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1972.
  • "General Psychology," Psychology Department, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1970-1971.

• Instructor
  • "Moon-Finger Zen: Direct Pointing At Reality, an experiential workshop on Zen Buddhism," Institute for Cross Cultural Research, San Francisco, 1989.

• "Using Mindfulness to Find Meaningful Work," Institute for Transpersonal Psychology, Menlo Park, California, October 1998.
• "Bohmian Dialogue on Opening Up to Spirit at Work," Bay Area Organizational Development Network, San Francisco, November 1996.
• "Using Mindfulness to Find Meaningful Work," Sacramento Buddhist Meditation Society, Sacramento, California, October 1996.
• "The End of Work, The Reinvention of Work, Own Work, Future Work and Good Work: Practical Steps," Annual Residency of the Doctoral Program, Saybrook Institute, June 1996.
• "Relationship of Mindfulness to Meaningful Work," Nyingma Institute, Berkeley, California, 1995.
• "Mindfulness and Meaningful Work," Center for the Future of Organizations, California School of Professional Psychology, 1995. Part of "An Evening Series for Business Thinkers: Where do we need to go? How do we get there from here?" Others speakers in the series included: Willis Harman, Dennis Jaffe, Michael Ray, Mary Scott, Terry Pearce, Edgar Schein.
• "Right Livelihood and Ethics," Ethics Class, Human Services Administration Program, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, California, 1995.
• "Mindfulness and Meaningful Work," Institute for Creation Spirituality, Holy Names College, Oakland, California, 1995.
• "Heart and Soul in the Work Place," San Francisco Bay Area Book Festival, 1994 (panel).
• "Healthy Business for Healthy Communities," International Conference on Healthy Cities, 1993 (panel).
• "A Taoist View of Time," The Eric Berne Seminar, San Francisco, 1994.
• "What Is Right Livelihood?," The Eric Berne Seminar, San Francisco, 1992.
• "Intuition and Livelihood," The Eric Berne Seminar, San Francisco, 1989.
• "Is Right Livelihood Possible in These Hard Times?," Experience Unlimited, California Employment Development Department, Oakland, 1992.
• "Working for Yourself versus Getting a Job," Marketing Department, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, 1991.
• "A Network Of Friends In Business: Origins, Purpose, and Present Status of the Briarpatch Society," Images of Work and Leisure, School of Broadcast Communication Arts, San Francisco State University, 1991.

Co-founder, CIO/CLO, chief community strategist
FutureU™
San Francisco
January 1997 to present

FutureU™ is a consulting firm serving both business and academia and specializing in organizational learning. Services range from needs assessment, curriculum development, and evaluation to the application of innovative delivery venues, such as the Internet and off-site learning expeditions; a catalog of online and face-to-face learning opportunities for leadership development and professional advancement; and a clearinghouse for business educators and organizational consultants whose common bond is their expertise in leading-edge ideas and best practices.

Founder and Director
The Center for Good Work
San Francisco
January 1987 to present

Provide advice and training on marketing, management, and meaningful work. Client base of 300 small businesses and community organizations and nearly 500 individuals, primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area. Offer periodic workshop series on values-based management for small organizations. Provide career transition guidance for individuals seeking a values-based work life. Offer periodic workshop series on livelihood issues. Provide advice and resource referrals to 400+ alumni.

Founding Program Director
Master of Arts in Business Program
California Institute of Integral Studies
San Francisco, California
May 1993 to June 1995

(See listing under "Educational Administration Experience")

Partner
Research & Planning for Business
San Francisco
1986-1987

As partner in market research firm, participated fully in all aspects of work, including sales, proposal preparation, research, and reports. Learned and utilized the market research techniques of one-on-one interviews and focus groups. Developed two-step proactive marketing program for partnership involving mail solicitation with follow-up telemarketing. Created and published quarterly newsletter. Produced special promotional events. Responsible for creation and maintenance of computer systems for survey analysis, document processing, and accounting. Developed personnel and policy manual. Supervised one employee in the operation of the business and various subcontractors in the execution of projects. Clients included Apple Computer, Fujitsu America, Hibernia Bank, Pacific Bell, Southland Corporation.

Director of Value-Added Services
Softyme, Inc.
San Francisco, California
1983-1985

Recruited as independent consultant to help build management team for high-tech start-up specializing in distribution of software over high-speed telephone data lines. Designed and created Value-Added Services department to provide customer and supplier support services. Managed department during critical start-up phase. Answered directly to the Vice-President of Value Added Services and CEO. Stood in for V.P. at Board and company meetings when necessary. Created management and reporting systems. Recruited and hired staff. Directly supervised three employees. Provided meeting facilitation and technical and training support for all departments.

Partner
Noren Institute
San Francisco, California
1983-1988

Provided consulting service to small businesses on the issues of bookkeeping, marketing, and growth management. Worked with client base of 200 small businesses, primarily in San Francisco. Developed twice yearly workshop series on honest management for small businesses. Created newsletter and lecture series as promotional vehicles. Provided resource referral service for 150+ alumni. Major consulting client was Research & Planning for Business (above), which led to a partnership in January 1986.

President & CEO
Living Lightly, Inc.
San Francisco, California
1980-1983

Chairman of the Board, General Manager, and 10% shareholder in corporation. Managed 3,000 ft² alternative energy/appropriate technology retail store. Duties included bookkeeping, purchasing, sales, new product research and testing, marketing and promotion. Store specialized in reasonably priced, environmentally safe products for energy conservation and city living. Inventory included energy efficient wood burning stoves, demand hot water heaters, energy saving space heaters, water and energy saving devices, energy saving kitchen items and appliances, nomadic furniture for city dwellers, organic gardening supplies, tools, books, and outdoor gear. Developed unique marketing approach which included classes on "Organic Gardening in The City," "Home Canning," and "Energy Conservation for City Dwellers." Primary responsibility for design and implementation of systems and procedures that allowed the store to grow from $50,000 annual sales to $300,000, in nine months. Supervised seven employees and three assistant managers.

Owner
Special Services
San Rafael, California
1979-1984

Started and operated successful one-person distribution company selling same products as Living Lightly retail store (above) but with special focus on energy efficient wood-burning stoves.

General Manager
E.V. Warehousing
San Leandro, California
1977-1979

Designed and implemented management and traffic control systems for 10,000 ft² public warehouse, including systems and forms design, and employee supervision and training. Supervised three full-time and 20 part-time employees. Developed liquidation system for surplus goods.

President & CEO
Harmony, Inc.
Santa Rosa, California
1975-1976

One-third owner of corporation. Duties as secretary/treasurer of corporation. General manager of 2600 ft² natural cosmetics manufacturing facility. Duties included bookkeeping, purchasing, production management, shipping, sales, product development, label design. Mostly private label contracts and institutional sales. Supervised two employees and personally handled 30 retail accounts.

Project Manager and Curriculum Consultant
Center for Professional Education, University of Phoenix Online
1996-97

Designed, developed, and implemented corporate training modules and specific certificate programs in "Strategic Human Resource Practices," "Strategic Management Practices," and "Strategic Information Systems Practices." Conducted qualitative market research to determine content needs of potential clients. Designed curriculum outlines. Worked with faculty teams to develop course curriculum. Conducted roll-out pilot programs.

Founding Program Director
Master of Arts in Business Program
California Institute of Integral Studies
San Francisco, California
1993 to 1995

Created graduate-level academic program in social entrepreneurship and socially responsible business management, emphasizing "new paradigm" management practices.. Worked with 35-member community advisory group to design business plan and curriculum. Developed curriculum; marketed program; recruited students; hired and supervised one full-time and two half-time faculty members, six adjunct faculty members, and three dozen guest lecturers; hired and supervised program staff (including program coordinator and part-time administrative staff). Worked with School for Transformative Learning faculty to design and implement collaborative governance structures, quality assurance policies, and internal research program. Fulfilled all academic and professional roles.

Consultant
Pacific Bell
San Francisco and San Ramon
1986-1987

As independent consultant, created training programs for key managers in Corporate Communications department. Designed and created massive stakeholder database and trained managers to act as liaisons with key stakeholder populations. In consultation with Corporate Communications department managers, designed and lead implementation of two small-business trade shows conceived to position Pacific Bell as a small business advocate. Trade shows included more than 100 floor vendors and dozens of small business workshops.

Learning Resource Center Manager
New College of California
San Francisco
1985-1986

As independent consultant, primary responsibility for development of academic computing program for faculty, staff, and students. Conducted feasibility study, designed and implemented business plan to make center self-supporting and accessible to the community at large. Planned and marketed curriculum, recruited instructors, created policy manual, and developed membership program.

Partner
Noren Institute
San Francisco
1984-1989

Full management responsibility for school. Developed twice yearly workshop series on honest management for small businesses using "action learning team" or "learning expedition" format. Provided resource referral service for 150+ alumni.

Social Weaver
On-Line Community of Inquiry and Practice:
Meaning and Wholeness in the Virtual Workplace
Awakening Technology, Lake Oswego, Oregon
February 1996 to October 1996

Working with a group of 50 corporate managers and consultants from around the country to experiment with deepening the connections possible through the computer mediated medium. Responsibility for getting to know participants, helping them feel safe and welcome, acknowledged, expected. And after they are comfortable, helping them connect with each other in powerful ways that support their individual and group quests. Since the project is conducted on-line we will have an automatic documentary record of our experiment which we will then analyze and report to the professional literature.

Associate Professor
Master of Arts in Business Program
California Institute of Integral Studies
San Francisco, California
May 1993 to June 1995

Conducted ongoing research into the teaching and learning practices of transformative learning utilizing the qualitative research tools of action inquiry, empowerment evaluation, ethnographic auditing, and ethnography. Designed and participated in self-evaluation studies of faculty and director roles, programs, and school.

Coordinator
Briarpatch, San Francisco, California
1984 to present

Conduct periodic financial and demographic survey of membership. Designed and implemented a qualitative study to measure characteristics of success. Supervised five apprentices in the collection and analysis of data.

Partner
Research & Planning for Business
San Francisco, California
1986-1987

Conducted qualitative market research for corporations such as Apple Computer, Fujitsu America, Hibernia Bank, Pacific Bell, Southland Corporation. Participated fully in proposal preparation, research, and reports. Produced special promotional events with built-in market research component. Developed computerized survey analysis.

Consultant
Research & Planning for Business, San Francisco
1985-1986

Same as "Partner" above. Supervised one employee in the operation of the business and various subcontractors in the execution of projects.

Currently pursuing Distance Learning M.B.A.
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland
1996 to present

Four quarters of course work toward Ph.D. in Psychology
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
1972 to 1973

Bachelor of Arts, Psychology
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
1972

Training and Development - One hundred and thirty-one (131) classroom hours of formal training in group process, meeting facilitation (including the "Interaction"™ method), and meeting technology (including "Group Graphics"™). Forty-two (42) classroom and field hours of formal training in "ropes course" methodology, improvisation, mediation, negotiation, conflict resolution, seminar and workshop development and promotion, film and video production, basic photography, graphic and printing technology, and non-fiction writing

Business Management - Fifty-seven (57) classroom hours of formal training in project management, marketing information systems (MKIS), time management, accounting, and business finance and planning.

Web Authoring, Development, and Management - One hundred and sixty-four (164) hours of online training.

• Certificate in Web Authoring (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
• Intro to Javascript, Style Sheets, and FrontPage
• Web-Publishing with HTML 4
• Drag and Drop CGI
• Building a Basic Web-Page
• Understanding the Internet
• Web-Course Authoring Tools
  • Blackboard
  • Convene
  • Etudes
  • eCollege
  • FirstClass
  • Nicenet
  • Web Course in a Box
  • WebCT
  • VirtualU
• Web Tools
  • HTML
  • CGI
  • Javascript
• Web Software
  • Adobe Acrobat
  • Adobe ImageReady
  • Adobe ImageStyler
  • Adobe Page Mill
  • Allaire Homesite
  • Claris Homepage
  • CSE HTML Validator
  • DataViz Conversions Plus
  • DeltaPoint Quicksite
  • Graphic Workshop
  • Hot Dog
  • HTML Powertools
  • Intranet Designshop
  • Linkbot
  • Live Image
  • LView Pro
  • Microsoft Front Page
  • Net Objects Fusion
  • Netscape Composer
  • Paintshop Pro
  • Screen Thief
  • WSFTP
  • Wisebot. . .

Computer and Systems Analysis - Seventy-two (72) classroom hours of formal training.

• Integrating PCs into the Corporate Environment,
  
• Fundamentals of Computerizing a Business,
  
• Business Computer Selection,
  
• Fundamentals of Data Processing,
  
• Systems Analysis,
  
• Database and File Structures,
  
• Data Storage Devices,
  
• Input/output Devices,
  
• IBM Operating Systems and Software
• Wang Operating System and Software
• Pick Operating System and Software
• Computer Languages
  • BASIC
  • FORTRAN
  • COBOL

Books:

• Co-author. Running A One-Person Business. (with Salli Rasberry). Ten Speed Press, 1989, 1994 (2nd ed. ).
• Editor and contributor. Mindfulness and Meaningful Work: Explorations in Right Livelihood. Parallax Press, 1994.
• Editor and contributor. In the Company of Others: Making Community in the Modern World. J.P. Tarcher, 1993.

Selected Articles:

• "Doing Well By Doing Good," in Whitmyer, Claude F. (ed.) Mindfulness and Meaningful Work: Explorations in Right Livelihood. Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1994.
• "Using Mindfulness to Find Meaningful Work," in Whitmyer, Claude F. (ed.) Mindfulness and Meaningful Work: Explorations in Right Livelihood. Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1994.
• "Waking Up to the Company of Others," in Whitmyer, Claude F. (ed.) In the Company of Others: Making Community in the Modern World. Los Angeles: J.P. Tarcher, 1993.
• "Community: Lost, Saved, Liberated," in Whitmyer, Claude F. (ed.) In the Company of Others: Making Community in the Modern World. Los Angeles: J.P. Tarcher, 1993.
• "Revisiting the Briarpatch," Real Goods Trading Catalog, Fall, 1994.
• "Fun and the One-Person Business," Open Exchange, October/November/December, 1990.
• "Building Support for Right Livelihood," Common Ground Resource Directory, Summer 1990.
• "Working With Independent Contractors Can Be a Good Idea," Skonie Corporation Newsletter, Sept. 1989.
• "Getting The Tools to Make The Office Hum," Working Woman, January, 1989.
• "Measuring Productivity," Macintosh Business Review, September, 1988 (cover/feature story).

Selected Reviews:

• "Job Shift by William Bridges," Journal of Management Consulting, Vol. 9, No. 3, May 1997.
• "Merchants of Vision by James Liebig," Journal of Management Consulting, Vol. 9, No. 2, Nov. 1996.
• "Instructions to the Cook by Bernard Glassman & Rick Fields," Shambhala Sun, April, 1996.
• "Merchants of Vision by James Liebig," Association of Humanistic Psychology Newsletter, Spring, 1995.
• "Skillful Means by Tarthang Tulku," The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog, 1994.
• "Home Office Computing," The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog, 1994.
• "Small Business Accounting Programs," The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog, 1994.
• "Sideline Business," The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog, 1994.
• "The Republic of Tea by Bill Rosensweig, Mel & Patricia Ziegler," Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Vol. II, No. 2, Spring 1993.

Columns:

• "Focus On Software," The Office, April 1987 to November 1993 (monthly software reviews).

Article/Book Referee:

• Learning and Work: An exploration in industrial ethnography, Garland Publishing, New York, 1995.
• Human Organization, Society for Applied Anthropology, Temple Terrace, Florida, 1993-1994.
• Journal of Business Ethics, Kluwer Academic Publications, Dordecht, Holland, 1992.

Work In Progress:

• Entrenaut: A Guide for Entrepreneurs, Intrapreneurs, Free Agents and other Enterprise Builders.
• E-Learning: A Guide to Teaching and Learning Online.
• Working for Yourself: The Ultimate Security.
• Making Peace With Business: Social Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century.

• Planning to Stay Together: Building Relationship on a Foundation of Truth and Trust
• The Path to Meaningful Work: Using Mindfulness and Creativity to Manage Your Career

Advisory Group Member
Center for the Future of Organizations
Alameda, California
1995 to 1998

Pro-bono service as advisor to educational organization that offers public programs on issues of organizational transformation and the future of the workplace.

Social Weaver
Awakening Technology
Lake Oswego, Oregon
February through October 1996

Collaborate in the facilitation of the on-line Community of Inquiry and Practice on Meaning and Wholeness in the Virtual Workplace, sponsored by Peter and Trudy Johnson-Lenz, pioneers in the development and application of groupware and computer assisted learning and change.

Member, Board of Advisors
ReAL
Baltimore, Maryland
February 1996 to present

Pro-bono service as advisor to an on-line business cooperative designed to provide both "push" and "pull" marketing for ideas promulgated by its members. Members represent a wide spectrum of leading edge thinking in the areas of education, health, society, art, philosophy, psychology, environment, community, and science. ReAL's mission is to raise awareness of the quality of life that is possible when (1) individuals who have "followed their bliss" are given powerful business tools and services, (2) when society changes its focus from unconscious consumerism of things to conscious creation of experiences, (3) when community and environment are honored, and (4) when businesses with similar values are interlinked to create an alternative marketplace.

Member, Board of Directors
Shared Resources
Mill Valley, California
1995 to present

Pro-bono service as director to educational organization whose charter is to "add value to life and business through information, learning, and collaboration." Shared resources currently produces satellite lectures with such notables as Peter Senge, Jack Stack, and Margaret Wheatley.

Invited Advisor/Consultant
The New Business Academy
Dartington, Devon, UK
1994

Served as representative of the "alternative business training" view to gathering of two-dozen academics and business people from England to design a new approach to graduate business education.

Member, Board of Directors
Brush Dance
Mill Valley, California
1990 to 1996

Pro-bono service as director to recycled paper products company.

Member, Board of Directors
Thousand Islands Institute
Kingston, Ontario
1989 to Present

Pro-bono service as director to owner-builder school serving the Ontario/New York region.

Member Advisory Group
Graduate Business Program
School for Transformative Learning
California Institute of Integral Studies
San Francisco, California
1992 to 1994

Advisor to Dean of the School and member of a committee to develop a graduate degree program in business management and entrepreneurship utilizing emancipatory learning practices.

Secretary/Treasurer, Board of Directors
CompuMentor
San Francisco, California
1988 to 1990

Founding board member and treasurer for non-profit organization that matches volunteer computer experts with non-profits that need computer help.

Vice-President/Treasurer, Board of Directors
Apprentice Alliance
San Francisco, California
1985 to 1990

Founding board member and officer. The AA matches those who wish to acquire technical and artistic skills with those who have the expertise to teach them. During my tenure, the Alliance was granted the "Best Social Inventions" Award for 1987 by the Institute for Social Inventions, London.

Member, Organizing Team
Common Good School
San Francisco
1982-1984

Served as team member in the creation of a training school for community organizers.

• American Anthropological Association
• American Booksellers Association
• Association for Transpersonal Psychology
• Bay Area OD Network
• Briarpatch
• Council on Anthropology and Education
• Human Resource Planning Society
• Institute of Management Consultants
• National Coalition of Independent Scholars
• National Society for Experiential Education
• Society for Applied Anthropology
• Society for the Advancement of Socioeconomics
  
• Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness

• Bird watching
  
• Computers and the WEB
  
• Gardening
  
• Hiking
  
• Meditation
  
• Tai Chi & Chi Kung
  

Lisa Faithorn, Ph.D.
California Institute of Integral Studies
9 Peter York Way
San Francisco, CA 94117
415-674-5500 ext. 280

David Fetterman, Ph.D.
School of Education
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
415-323-5339

Martin Hamilton, Executive Vice-President
New College of California
50 Fell Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
415-626-1694

Paul Terry
Paul Terry & Associates
185 Arkansas Street
San Francisco, CA 94188
415-255-0131

Claudia Viek, Director
SF Renaissance Entrepreneurship Ctr
1453 Mission Street, Sixth Floor
San Francisco, CA 94103
415-541-8580