Marshall Thurber

Marshall Thurber
Occupation	author, public speaker,

Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller, scholar and futurist

Marshall Thurber is an attorney, real estate developer, editor, businessman, educator, scholar, inventor, negotiator, author, and public speaker.

A list of his students includes Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen, authors of Chicken Soup for the Soul, the founder and creator of Paul Mitchell hair products, Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, Spencer Johnson, author of Who Moved My Cheese, Tony Robbins, Harv Eker, and Robert Kiyosaki (author of Rich Dad Poor Dad).

Some of Marshall Thurber's programs include:

■Money & You ■Success Secrets of the 21st Century ■The Future of Business: The Essence of Deming ■The Leadership Development Training Program ■The Positive Deviant Network ■The Burklyn: School for Business Comprehensivists ■Abundanets Training ■The Accounting Game (granted a US Patent) ■How to Think About What's Worth Thinking About ■The Secrets of Powerful Presentations ■How to Make Change Your Ally In his private consulting business, Marshall has consulted for clients that include: ITT Industries, Sheraton Hotels, The US Navy, Ernst & Young, Panavision, Neill Corporation, Hewlett Packard, GTE, The Neenan Company, Systems West, Bentley Management Corp., Liberty Helicopters, Columbia Artists Management Inc., Mendocino Forest Products, and Chicken Soup for the Soul Books. Mr. Thurber received his undergraduate degree from Union College, and his law degree from Hastings College of Law, University of California. He was a founding partner of the Fisher Thurber law firm and serves as Of Counsel to the Firm, specializing in business management practices.

In the late 1970s, Thurber co-founded the Burklyn Business School in Vermont. It was designed to teach both the global principles of cooperation he learned from Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller and the contextual principles of the human potential movement. These had been demonstrated in his own businesses. By utilizing Superlearning Technologies™ (for maximum memory retention), simulations, music, and graphics, Thurber’s teaching is known for being powerfully effective, fun, memorable and leading edge.

Marshall Thurber holds a BA Degree from Union College of New York; The Cohen H. Kerr award for the highest academic average at Boston University; Boston University’s Utopia Award, and The Maud Folsom Foundation Award which grants an annual scholarship for as long as the individual attends school or until age thirty-five.

Marshall also holds a J.D Degree from the University of California, Hastings College of Law with a law firm (Fisher ◊ Thurber) in La Jolla, California.

This successful individual, along with two partners, started a highly successful real estate firm in California. Attention became focused on this company and Thurber started sharing his business theories and methods with others. Today, thousands of people worldwide actively use “Thurber Techniques” in their daily lives.

He also is a partner in The Positive Deviant Network. This is a network of very success individuals who are committed to positive social change and the abundant living context of Buckminster Fuller. In addition, Marshall is Chairman of the Board of Empowergy, Inc, a company whose predictable transformational system elevates the rest to perform like your very best.

He was a student of W. Edwards Deming and the R. Buckminster Fuller, and he claims to incorporate their principles. Presently Marshall Thurber is the CEO of Empowergy, a company that transforms client’s organizations by elegantly harvesting the extraordinary abilities of "the best" and quickly and predictably transfers these traits to "the rest." ==References==

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