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I teach the strategies favoured in Nature...
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"A
corporate trainer and conference speaker, I am the author of 2 books
'SELF-Empowerment - How and why to invest in your
creative capital' and, with my life-partner
Suzy Ethier, the French best seller
'Investissez
dans votre capital créatif'. I've published many articles and
written training programs that demystify how Nature favours
creative leaders. I've had a monthly column in the Quebec business
magazine "La Réussite" (Success) for the last several years where I
relate strategies from the jungles of America as applied to the
social and business jungles today.
My decision to study of Nature's management strategies was
triggered by a traumatic automobile accident more than 30 years
ago. The short version of the story is - I hit a pole on the
TransCanada Highway at 70 mph. I experienced the long version -
which includes 4 death experiences, 6 weeks attached to a
respirator in an ICU and 11 months in hospitals. I left rehab
totally paralysed from high on my chest, and with a life-expectancy
of 5-7 years because of the extensive internal damage. Jobless,
severely disabled and financially destitute, I faced the arduous
task of rebuilding.
In that quest, my first idea was to discover what had given me joy
until my career was interrupted. I knew I'd need that vision to
prop me up. Looking within, I found the moments that had given me
the greatest happiness, back into my childhood, were all related to
Nature. I'd been an avid camper, fisherman, explorer, skier,
amateur naturalist, photographer, gardener, and more. So I started
there, promising God that, if life allowed it, I'd get myself into
Nature.
« The jungle offers a most bio-intense complexity... with
thousands of species co-existing... »
With no specific plan, I devoted the little time and energy I
thought I had left to exploring Nature's INTENT - Survive &
Prosper. It was
the best decision I ever made. I asked WHY and discovered a world
of complex systems within systems. I kept notes and pushed
further... 9 principles explain how Nature manages complexity. As
the solutions to problems cannot exist where the problems are,
Nature requires us to tune into the larger organizing
"Intelligence" and thus acquire Its strategic overview.
(See the
video at the bottom of this page.)
My solitary wanderings in Nature began humbly and close to home
with wanting to understand myself, but my findings impassioned me.
Passion is energy and it can be focused into creative power.
Pushing my limits, I studied « Whole Systems » - the strategies,
rules and management tools as they applied to me. I crossed Canada
from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island, and explored the tundra,
North of James Bay, to the tropical rainforests of Central
America. With Suzy, I zeroed-in on the most bio-diverse place on
Earth ... the
Southern Zone of Costa Rica... as my ultimate classroom. There I
found strategies that benefit people and organizations
...naturally and
creatively. Explaining Nature's views on
change-management, creative process, innovation and LEADERSHIP, and
I've taught thousands of people across Canada and in more than a
dozen European cities how to profit from them.
A respected conference speaker and workshop leader
(see the
testimonials page), I animate a series of
multimedia
presentations called 'Lessons from the
jungle...' that explain Nature's rules of
motivation, strategy, creativity, self-empowerment, leadership, and
more. With Suzy, I also animate a series learning events called
LEAN™ LEADERSHIP for people who deal with all the complexities of
day-to-day organizing, manufacturing marketing and the added
challenge of managing relationships, who now must empower others to
innovate.
« My book tells how and why to develop your "creative capital".
»
I am still at it after all these years. Now I'm billed as - THE
ONLY RESEARCHER ON EARTH WHO TREKS JUNGLES... IN A
WHEELCHAIR.
Whether in the jungles of Costa Rica, in-house at your place of
business, or at corporate events, Suzy and I teach managers and
leaders the strategies, syntheses, tools and techniques needed to
enhance their team's potential. Our training is designed to
transform human capital into creative capital.
Our "Lessons
from the jungle..." and LEAN™ LEADERSHIP
conferences and
events demystify
the 3 ways that complex organizations - individuals, corporations
or Nations - can increase their wealth: By adding value to
their structural
capital,
their client
capital and/or
their creative
capital. The
first concept, structural
capital, refers
to those ideas, patents, methods, physical property, edifices
and/or equipment that are exclusive
properties, and
that determine what the structure does. Nature gives value to -
"What your
organization does!".
Client
capital describes the value of relationships
that can be developed with whomever and whatever consumes or uses
the structural capital, or contributes to it – like potential
collaborators, employees, customers and suppliers. Nature gives
value to: "Who,
how and why the organization is doing what it does
for!"
« Nature's best secrets revealed... in conference... live...
»
And then « creative capital
» is the knowledge and
experience of the human capital… when organized
creatively. Learn how Nature gives MOST value
to "How we do
what we do!" ...or how the human capital is managing
the resources.
Of those 3 ways of investing energy, the only one that assures
continued growth,
sustainability and prosperity is «creative
capital». Nature
says it's the one with the most value. It's most important is
because creative
capital is what
will assess and give value to the other 2 forms of capital.
An organization's « creative capital » will determine and influence
both its client relations, and its physical resources, and it will
plan the strategic good of enterprise, its
NEXT. Creative
capital is also an organization's most cost effective investment.
Compared to investing in structural or client capital, augmenting
the creative intelligence of human resources has a low cost and an
immediate pay-back with an exponential output potential.
In a knowledge-based economy « creative
capital »
quickly becomes a tangible asset when it's unleashed to improve
production, productivity, products and services, to better serve
and capture markets, and to perfect management processes. It has
exponential worth if the asset is focused on learning to think
LEAN™ Improving (transformation as conscious innovation) and if
LEAN™ Leadership sees it as the key to sustained
prosperity.
So how do Suzy and I unleash a team’s creative potential? We teach
them how to profit from Nature's #1 management strategy:
Altruistic
self-interest.
Now -
Imagine if every member of your team had the same motivation,
drive, initiative and leadership skills as a visionary
CEO…
« Here is a brief look at where I'm coming
from... »
« Adjust your Audio and give this 7 1/2 minute QuickTime© movie a moment to start... »
The Biosphere is speaking to us all,
and with more than the clips from disasters, calamities and weather
extremes we see on television. The study of Nature offers us
creative wisdom that has produced 4.5 billion years of organizational
success on this Planet.
The law is simple: Survive & Prosper. So far we know that
solutions to problems CANNOT be solved at the same level of
thinking that causes them. That explains why 99.99% of everything
that ever existed on Earth is extinct today, and why hundreds of
species are disappearing now.
Solutions to any problem, to all challenges, exist of course
- but they require
us to change our thinking so we reach a creative level of
understanding. That level deals with complexity by looking for
strategies, syntheses... and finds wisdom.
In spite of seeming chaotic and turbulent history, of radical
changes in direction, Nature's creative INTENT is easily summarized
as 'Survival of
the wisest!"
The wise being they who adapt to changing conditions.
Read my Blog and I'll share some of the
"deep
wisdom" I've
learned over the years with you, and explain how Nature's rules are
universal - how they profit every individual and organization.
Nature plays no favourites.
My multimedia*
presentations explain how Nature favours creative thinkers by
equipping us to play 5 strategic roles that provoke innovative
breakthroughs. Our seminars teach participants how to play those 5
roles to manage the organizational
complexity they
face. The experience teaches them a technique, logical tools and
templates, and offers empowering behaviours, strategies and
tactics.
If you are looking for an inspired and inspiring conference
speaker
phone me at (514) 481-2835 -
or write me
-
and we'll discuss how one
of my presentations can benefit you and stimulate your team. *Aside
from wise words, I'll bring Movies, PowerPoint Presentations, Sound
F/X and even odors and artifacts from the jungles of Costa Rica to
create the mood, and to capture audience's interest.
Thanks for reading. I appreciate your referring my website to
persons, companies and groups you think might appreciate my
training services.
Lawrence
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