• Claude Whitmyer, co-founder
• Gail Terry Grimes, co-founder
• Hidetake Enomoto, professional associate
• Patricia Ryan Madson, professional associate
• Paul Terry, professional associate

Claude Whitmyer (claude[at]meaningfulwork[dot]com) (co-founder) is a veteran business educator and organizational consultant who has served more than 2,000 clients in several hundred corporations, non-profits, small and micro businesses. He has helped business owners, executives and managers with planning and strategic thinking, business and marketing plans, market research, communications, executive and management coaching, talent management, training and development, management systems automation, and web-based meetings, virtual teaming and online learning. In the early 1990s he developed one of the first graduate business programs in the U.S. to be partially or wholly delivered over the Internet. Mr. Whitmyer has authored three books:

• Running A One-Person Business (Ten Speed Press, 2nd ed.).
• Mindfulness and Meaningful Work (Parallax Press).
• In the Company of Others (Tarcher/Putnam).

Gail Terry Grimes (gail[at]futureu[dot]com) (co-founder) has worked as an independent communications consultant for more than 20 years. She has provided more than 100 organizations with creative services, project management, and communications assessment, primarily for marketing, fund development, internal communications, and change management. In the early 1990s, she was communications consultant for the merger that created one of the largest private medical centers in the West. More recently she played a similar role for a $52 million Internet startup with a non-profit mission related to the humanistic use of technology for enhanced communications. A former journalist, she is also well known as a motivational and technical writer and as a teacher of written communications. Ms. Grimes is married to Mr. Whitmyer and together they have developed a unique process tool for couples who want to live and work together as co-entrepreneurs.

Hidetake Enomoto singlehandedly introduced career coaching to his native Japan. Following his success with coaching in Japan, Hide spent several years researching eco-villages, living for three years at the Findhorn intential community in Scotland. He is currently involved with the Transition Towns green metro movement in Japan.
          Mr. Enomoto is available for cross-cultural workshops and teleconferences on new developments in the Japanese workplace, community building, and eco-villages. He is author of Coaching (PHP, 1999) and translator of the Japanese edition of Jessica Lipnack's and Jeffrey Stamps' Virtual Teams.

Patricia Ryan Madson is retired senior lecturer in Drama at Stanford University, where she was also the head of the undergraduate acting program, director of Stanford's first Summer School in Improvisation, and coordinator of the university's Creativity Initiative, an interdisciplinary alliance of faculty interested in the benefits of the creative process on education. Ms. Ryan Madson has taught workshops on creativity and team building for Hewlett Packard, Apple Computers, Adobe Systems, IDEO, Price Waterhouse, Foothill College Health Services, and Stanford. She has lectured widely on creativity and improvisation, notably for Sun Microsystem's Japanese Division, the National Association of Drama Therapists, the Western Psychological Association, and the Duke University East Asian Studies Center. Ms. Ryan Madson is also a certified Constructive Living Coach and author of the terrific improv hand book: Imrov Wisdom: Don't Prepare, Just Show Up (Bell Tower).

Paul Terry was named Inc. Magazine's Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year in 1995. In 1994, he was awarded the Small Business Administration's Financial Services Advocate award. And in 1991, he was the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce's "Instructor of the Year." These honors are due in part to Mr. Terry's success as the consultant and lead instructor to San Francisco's highly regarded non-profit Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center, where he has provided strategic program direction, curriculum development, and business incubation management since 1986. Under Mr. Terry's guidance, Renaissance has nurtured the development of more than 400 small businesses that have created 1,500 jobs and generated a total of $35,000,000 in sales. A longtime small business development consultant and business owner as well as a business educator and speaker, he is the primary course content developer for our online training programs for entrepreneurs.