The Authors
HERMAN BRYANT MAYNARD, JR., is an international consultant on personal and organizational transformation and a licensed Master for delivery of “Avatar” (Star’s Edge International), a course designed to assist individuals in taking conscious command of their lives.
His specialties include business turnarounds and transformation of business cultures. Now a member of the growing international network of businesspersons and consultants who are pioneering a new business paradigm, Maynard serves on the board of directors for the World Business Academy, the World Trust, and the International Center for Organizational Design. He has been co-chairman of the National Learning Foundation and a guest speaker at the Stanford Business School, and he spent twenty-two years with Du Pont, holding a number of professional and managerial positions in manufacturing, research, marketing, sales, product management, new business development, and administration.
Maynard’s educational background includes a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering as well as numerous courses and seminars in marketing, management, and the development of personal and intuitive skills applicable to business. He is a contributing author to New Traditions in Business and The New Paradigm in Business.
SUSAN E. MEHRTENS is president of The Potlatch Group Inc., a research organization specializing in the analysis of business trends related to global evolution and social change. Since establishing the business in 1987, she has undertaken a wide variety of research projects for clients that range from the Fortune 500 (AT&T, Du Pont, General Motors, Sears) to smaller businesses, schools, and private foundations, such as the Institute of Noetic Sciences, World Business Academy, International Management Institute, Saybrook Institute, and Schweisfurth Foundation.
After receiving her Ph.D. from Yale University, Mehrtens taught at Queens College, City University of New York, and the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, in the fields of environmental studies, marine studies, medieval studies, history, Latin, and Greek.
She is the coauthor of an ecology text, Earthkeeping; the editor of Revisioning Science, a festschrift dedicated to Willis W. Harman; and coauthor of a forthcoming book on current market trends, What’s Going On?