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Now completely retired from the practice of law, Giles serves as chairman of Landmark Education Enterprises, Inc., a company with 43 offices in 20 countries, which delivers transformational educational seminars. “We use the word ‘transformational’ because our courses change people’s lives,” says Giles. “We teach people (nearly 350,000 last year) about being personally responsible for their lives and not blaming their problems on others. We tell our participants that if they aren’t happy with their lives, it’s up to them to make changes. I’ve done that with my own life and it has made a huge difference in how fulfilled I am in my work and personal life.”

Giles is also chairman of Mission Control Productivity, Inc., a program that teaches a new way of looking at time. “We’re very excited that Human Resource magazine just named us one of its Top 10 New Products for Productivity in the United States,” says Giles.

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TERRY M. GILES. 51, Nominee.
A highly successful attorney since 1975, Mr. Giles founded and built his law firm in California, handling civil and criminal cases in 22 states and 3 countries. Mr. Giles is the owner of Tekniko Licensing Corporation, which licenses intellectual properties owned by Tekniko to businesses throughout the world. Mr. Giles resides on several boards, including Merchant House Inc., Pacific Biometrics Inc., Pepperdine University Board of Regents, and the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, where he is the Vice President of this most prestigious board. Mr. Giles was also a recipient of the Horatio Alger Award in 1994. He co-founded The Giles Foundation, a non-profit charitable foundation, in 1987. After getting his BA degree in 1970 from California State University at Fullerton, Mr. Giles attended Pepperdine University School of Law where he received his Juris Doctorate in 1974.

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The qualified candidate would be accountable for managing all administrative and financial aspects of one of Landmark Education's wholly owned subsidiaries, Tekniko Licensing Corporation. This person reports directly to the Tekniko Operations Manager, and acts as a liaison and resource for a wide variety of management consulting firms that License Tekniko's Technology. In addition, he or she supports the production of several international conferences per year, including site selection, staffing, travel and on-site management.

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Tekniko, the successor company to Transformational
Technologies, Erhard's company that franchised and now licenses
consultants. TTI was and Tekniko is wholly owned by Erhard.

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In July 1984 a company named Transformational Technologies was incorporated in the state of New York. The corporate charter listed a successful management consultant, a small, wiry man named James Selman, as the company's chief executive officer, but the sole owner of the new firm was Werner Erhard. Selman was a longtime est enthusiast, having gone through the training in 1975 while he was a partner at the prominent management consulting firm Touche Ross. He later quit to work for Erhard, and now he was ready to put into place one of Erhard's long-standing objectives - applying the principles of est to the world of big business.

Together Erhard and Selman embarked on a plan to sell, at a handsome price, franchises in Transformational Technologies to independent business consultants who then would be licensed to utilize Erhard's est-influenced "technology". Within eighteen months nearly fifty franchises had been sold at a cost of $25,000 apiece. The franchise agreement also required each independedt consultant to pay a portion of his or her revenues to Erhard's company.