Lawrence is an inspiring author and a conference speaker who demystifies important ideas on self-management as championed in Nature. By sharing his experiences, his springboard stories, training techniques, syntheses and tools, he explains how to “Survive & Prosper” in times of change by adding value to your creative capital. He has taught Nature’s management strategies to audiences across Canada and in Europe.
This site aims to be a resource for people developing their “leadership skills, creativity and personal power”. Discover important ideas on self-motivation, strategy, leadership, creativity, innovation, self-empowered systems and sustainable development by reading Lawrence’s Blog.
A brief
introduction to LAWRENCE POOLE
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Who
am I?
"A leadership trainer and conference speaker, I wrote several books
- 'SELF-Empowerment,
Invest in your creative capital' and, with my
life-partner Suzy Ethier, the French best
seller 'Investissez
dans votre capital créatif', among others.
I've also published dozens
of articles and written many training programs for major Companies, Associations and
Governments that
explain how
Nature favours creative leaders. I’ve had a monthly column in the
Quebec business magazine "La Réussite" (Success) for these last several
years where I relate strategies from the jungles of America as
applied to the social and business jungles. And I write a weekly
column for Montreal’s “La
Métropole”
online newspaper. In the last few years, I’ve become
an appreciated conference speaker. Click here to see me
at work!
«
I teach the management strategies favoured in Nature...
»
My decision to accept Nature as a management school was triggered by a tragic automobile
accident I had 35+ years ago. The short version is -
I hydroplaned my car
one stormy night and hit a pole on the Trans-Canada Highway at
70 mph (115
kph).
I lived through the long version - including 4 near death
experiences, 6 weeks in the ICU attached to a respirator and 11
months in hospitals. I left the rehab totally paralyzed from high
on my chest and with a life-expectancy of 5-7 years because of the
extensive internal damage. Several of my broken bones were never
set properly and because I’m quite tall, my body structure is a
big, fragile and unstable mass.
I found myself jobless, severely disabled and financially destitute
in a largely inaccessible environment, I faced the arduous task of
rebuilding my life. In that quest, my first idea was to discover
what had given me joy until my career was suddenly interrupted. I
intuitively knew I would need that to tap into joy in order to
generate hope and I had a very steep hill to climb with not much to
promise joy. Looking within, I found that the moments which had
given me the greatest happiness until the moment of impact, back
into my earliest childhood, are all related to Nature. In my
earliest memory - I loved exploring fields and forests in Québec,
Canada. Young adult, I was an avid camper, fisherman, naturalist,
photographer, skier and much more... but nothing tickled me more
than a campfire after a day in the heart of Nature.
So I decided - paralyzed, immobile , destitute and in a hospital
bed - that if God granted me a little more life, I’d get myself
into the woods.
« The jungle manages an incredible complexity... up to10,000
co-existing species in a hectare.»
As soon as I could, and with no specific intent except to
experience the joy of it, I devoted the little time and energy I
thought I had left to exploring the woodlands in and about my
hometown and then, as things turned out, farther and farther
afield. Trekking into Nature was the best decision I ever took.
There I encountered, contemplated and resolved so many
WHYs... and I discovered a highly
intelligent, very creative but very complex world of
systems within
systems. I was
first amused, then amazed and now impassioned. I discovered
“creative Ørder” and was so captured by its logic, I felt an urge
to share. I kept notes... and have teaching ever
since.
On this site, I’ll you tell a bit of what
I found: That Nature requires every member of
every species to adapt to constant change.
Nature’s management rule is “altruistic
self-interest”
so be adaptable and help others do it too. I also found
that Nature favours creative leaders. Nature champions innovative
thinking. Nature has self-organizing strategies to deal with
complexity... and so many more lessons learned. In
summary,
the solutions to problems cannot exist where the problems
are. Nature
requires us to explore the creative “Consciousness” animating
complex organized
systems.
Why the jungle?
My wilderness
treks began
humbly enough and close to home - Oka Provincial Park near
Montreal. I wanted to understand what I had experienced in my NDEs
(Near death experiences ...how creative “Light” is Intelligence in
Nature). Contemplation means asking questions and waiting silently
for signs and indications from the answers. A few times a week, I’d
park my car and wheel as best I could on the easiest trails in the
Park. After awhile, my solitary wanderings - and my need to stop
for a rest - were rewarded with exciting discoveries and these “AHA
moments” pulled me into deeper contemplation. From my wheelchair, I
explored most of this Province - accessing its wilderness areas as
best I could. I kept pushing my limits and am happy to say I’ve
been across Canada - from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island and I’ve
visited boreal and pine forests, taiga and tundra - from James Bay
Quebec to Peace River, BC, and then South - across the US into the
deserts and mountains of Mexico and the lush rainforest jungles of
Central America.
Impassioned, I learned from Nature’s creative strategies,
syntheses, rules and tools - as they apply to empowering
individuals and organizations.
More than 20 years ago, with my life-partner Suzy, I focused my studies in the ultimate
classroom - the
Southern Zone of Costa Rica ...i.e. - the most bio-diverse place on
Earth. There I
synthesized my creative strategies and wrote a
book. Since, by telling springboard stories
called « Lessons from the jungle... »I’ve taught thousands of
people in America and Europe how to creatively self-empower
themselves and their teams.
My book explains how to develop your "creative
capital".
An inspiring conference speaker
(See
the testimonials page), I’m billed as - THE ONLY RESEARCHER
ON EARTH WHO TREKS TROPICAL JUNGLES... IN A
WHEELCHAIR.
My multimedia
presentations are called 'Lessons from the
jungle...'
and
they explain Nature's rules on Change management, Motivation,
Creativity, Leadership and more. A second series of conferences
- “The Way Of
Jaguar-kings” - inspires people with tales
Leadership. Here I’ll tell empowering “springboard stories”
about mythic entrepreneurs
from prehistory who adopted Nature’s rule and fashioned a
free-trade empire across continental America.
Whether in Costa Rica, in your place of business or at your
corporate event, I’ll teach you how to enhance your potential with
inspiring presentations that are designed to transform
"human capital into
creative capital". I demystify the 3 ways that complex
organizations - individuals, corporations, governments or Nations -
can increase their wealth:
By adding value to their structural capital, their client capital
and their creative capital.
«Structural
capital», refers to
the structure does... or, more properly, it’s what individuals and
organizations do, what they contribute to the
Whole. Capital
value will be given to those ideas, methods, patents, recipes,
physical properties, edifices and equipment that are
exclusively
owned and that
determine what the structure does.
«Client
capital» describes
the value of relationships that exist or that can be developed with
whomever consumes the structural capital, and who
is contributing
to it. (ex. collaborators,
employees, customers and suppliers. real and potential) Nature
values: "Who we
do it for, and who we do it with!" What kind of relationships can you
build that will add value to your structural
capital?
And then «Creative
capital» is the
knowledge and experience of the human resource when organized to add
value. Of 3
those ways to invest our time, energy and money, Nature
suggests the only
one that can
assure sustainability and continued prosperity is «
creative capital
». That’s our
most important asset because it is what can add value to, or
sabotages, the other two.
What
are your training needs?
My « multimedia conference presentations » transform
human
capital into creative
capital. Consider
how an organization's « creative capital
» is what determines and
influences the fate of both its client relations
and its physical and
structural
resources. Creative capital
plans the future of
enterprise so it’s the organization's most
effective investment. Compared to structural or client
capital,
developing the creative intelligence of the human resource has an
exponential potential ...and a much lower capital cost. It also has
an immediate pay-back and the return on the investment is
continuous and quantum.
In a knowledge-based economy « creative capital » quickly becomes a
tangible asset when it is unleashed to improve production,
productivity, products and services, to better serve customers, to
capture markets and to perfect management processes. It offers
exponential worth when it’s seen as the key to sustained prosperity
and developed.
So how do
Suzy and I unleash a team’s creative potential?
We tell them all about
Nature's #1 management strategy: Altruistic
self-interest.
Now - Imagine if every member of the team had
the same motivation, drive, initiative and leadership skills as a
visionary CEO…
Earth is speaking to us with more than the clips of weather
extremes, disasters and calamities that we see on TV. Nature
studies can see the wisdom behind by the Planet’s
4.5 billion years of
organizational success. Nature’s laws are simple: Survive
& Prosper. That requires creative growth. We know that
solutions to problems CANNOT be found by the same level of thinking
than the one that caused them.
In spite of seeming chaotic and turbulent history and even of
radical changes in direction, Nature's creative INTENT can easily
be summarized as “Survival of the
wisest!” The wise are they who adapt to changing
conditions. Read
my Blog for more "deep wisdom"
acquired over the years,
and discover how Nature's rules are universal - they will
profit every individual and organization.
The
jungle does not play favourites, it champions “altruistic
self-interest”. This
explains why 99.99% of everything that ever existed on planet Earth
is extinct today.
My multimedia
presentations show how Nature favours creative leaders by equipping
us to play
5 roles that produce creative thinking. My seminars teach participants how
those 5 roles allowed Jaguar-kings from millennia ago to manage the
organizational complexity they faced as leaders. Rather than
react to life’s circumstances and events, they learned to co-create
with them.
For
an inspired and
inspiring
conference
call me at (514) 481-2835.
Or write to me
and we'll discuss how one
of my animations can benefit you and your team.
Thanks for reading. Lawrence
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