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Interview with Dr. John Hanley - Page 15 INT: You've really spent your entire adult life breaking ground as what I would term the leading arrow-catcher and groundbreaker, so to speak, pioneering a new way of approaching learning and education. What do you see now as the future for transformational technology experience for education? JH: Well, I really am committed to moving the general public side forward and being as available as I can to assist anybody there because, again, I think that is enormously valuable for individuals. And then, simultaneously to that, a group of us have made a much larger commitment to the business world. In the last two or three years I have spent about 98% of my work time working for corporations doing cultural change and leadership training using this technology, and I must tell you that it works as well, if not better, in the business community than it did for the last 30 years in the general public community. The thing about business which is so terrific is that they're pretty results orientated, and if you go in there with transformational technology and get the job done, well, there's no questions after that. It seems that business has exhausted almost every other skills training, psychologists, field trips, whatever, to get the kinds of people on their staff that they can empower to not only get the job done for themselves but get the job done for the organisation. And it's with that that I believe that business has now opened to a new approach. For instance, IBM spent $30 million on a program called 'Transforming the Manager,' and IBM--big blue and white shirts, black suits--for them to embrace this technology is a wonderful thing for all of us and really for business worldwide. Then, also, we've been spending a good deal of time overseas in Asia primarily and working in the emerging market, China, and we see the multinational organizations that are going over there. For instance, we're working with the Director of Training for Home Depot in Beijing, which is kind of funny because we're not working with Home Depot here in the US. But we are working with the Director of Training over there so, you know, you take it where you can get it. But the point is that transformation in the business community is worldwide, and business is calling for a new recipe to support their employees 360º. They know that if an employee's life is working, then their work life is working. You know, we used to think, "Listen, don't bring any of your other issues to the workplace; put in your eight hours or your nine hours, do a good job, and then, you know, if you're going back to a broken situation or an upset or a personal breakdown, so be it." But now business recognizes that the whole person really is who they're counting on to get the job done, and so the idea of transformation becomes extremely important. We don't just work with people transforming their experience in the workplace, but rather, as a sort of side effect, these transformational technologies and these tools that they get in business are applicable in their everyday life as well. |
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