John Hanley, Sr. Background

John P. Hanley, born in 1945, founder of Lifespring, Inc. and Senior Partner for LTDG, has dedicated his professional life to creating innovative educational programs for adults.  His vision is to design learning environments where people can increase their effectiveness, improve the quality of their lives, and take responsibility for the difference they make in the world.

In January of 1974, Hanley presented the Lifespring training to
25 students. Through the course of the next twenty years, hundreds of
thousands of participants took part in the Lifespring Basic Training and
Lifespring spread to cities all across the United States.

A member of the American Society of Training and Development, Hanley has also served on the Resource Board for the Young Presidents' Organization.  He is the author of "Lifespring: Getting Yourself from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be" published April 1989, by Simon and Schuster.

Hanley is a nationally ranked Cutting Horse competitor with a 400 acre working ranch in California.  He has achieved championship rankings in numerous categories of competitions, both in the Pacific Coast Cutting Horse Association, which includes the eleven Western States, and in the National Cutting Horse Association, which includes all fifty states.  He continues to compete regularly in major Cutting Horse events.

Born in South Carolina and raised in Wisconsin, Hanley received his Bachelor of Science degree in Social Science at the University of Wisconsin.  He and his wife Candace have been happily married for 25 years and have three children.