WERNER ERHARD
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in Areas: Transformation; Personal Growth
: Trainer; Volunteer; Company Leader; Founder of est
rofit Affiliation: The Werner Erhard Foundationr Erhard introduced the breakthrough notion of “transformation” to the
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Attended by approximately a million people, est was an extremely popular
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th ives in a short time, yielding powerful and long-lasting results. In 1971,
at d The est Training and formed the company Erhard Seminars Training, I
With notoriety for tough honesty and skill, Erhard and his programs became the
subject of various television, newspaper, magazine, and even movie attention. In
1981, he formed a new company, Werner Erhard and Associates. The est Train
and Werner Erhard and Associates produced powerful results with hundreds of
thousands of
Erhard and his work continued to be a source of influence yet also controversy due
to misconceptions in the media. Still, he was committed to bettering the human
condition through volunteerism and in 1988, was awarded the Mahatma Gandhi
Humanitarian Award for his contribution to people and society. Werner Erhard
closed his companies in 1991 and sold the rights to his technology so as to end a
swirl of controversial media about him. It later came to light that all of the
allegations about him were proven to be either untrue or recanted. However,
Erhard chose to stay out of the spotlight.
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- Create your future from your future, not your past.
- You and I want our lives to matter. We want our lives to make a real
difference—to be of genuine consequence in the world. We know that there
is no satisfaction in merely going through the motions, even if those motions