Landmark education business development
Posted by:
Jack Oskar Larm
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Date: December 18, 2006 12:14PM
Ajinajan wrote:
So, the shareholders/investors need to be informed. At the end of the day, it's the 'suits' that put in the money, they need to know. A personal boycott of the products and services of the LEC-trained businesses is probably all I can do.
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But they would probably pay attention if it was one of their shareholders/investors themselves who sent them a formal written notice...
So, the shareholders/investors need to be informed. At the end of the day, it's the 'suits' that put in the money, they need to know. A personal boycott of the products and services of the LEC-trained businesses is probably all I can do.
Landmark education business development
Posted by:
ajinajan
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Date: December 18, 2006 01:40PM
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Jack Oskar Larm
Ajinajan wrote:Quote
But they would probably pay attention if it was one of their shareholders/investors themselves who sent them a formal written notice...
So, the shareholders/investors need to be informed. At the end of the day, it's the 'suits' that put in the money, they need to know. A personal boycott of the products and services of the LEC-trained businesses is probably all I can do.
There are other ways to inform shareholders. Such as the aforementioned proposal/resolution which can go into the official annual report of a publicly-traded company.
Landmark education business development
Posted by:
sonnie_dee
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Date: December 18, 2006 04:50PM
the only thing to remember is that the shareholders/investers are the staff of the company
Landmark education business development
Posted by:
ajinajan
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Date: December 18, 2006 05:30PM
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sonnie_dee
the only thing to remember is that the shareholders/investers are the staff of the company
In Landmark Education's case, yes.
But I was referring to the shareholders/investors of publicly-traded companies that contract with Landmark Education Business Development. In this case, these shareholders are the [i:35d91c71ed]owners[/i:35d91c71ed] of the company, and thus do have a say in voicing concerns if it is brought to their attention that their company (and thus their shareholder invested dollars) is spending money on controversial seminars.
Landmark education business development
Posted by:
Humanista
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Date: December 24, 2006 10:15AM
I took the Forum in July 2006 ( and left the 3rd day, after the "empty and meaningless" speech. Meh. )
At least an hour on the 2nd or 3rd day (it all runs together) was spent on thier business development wing, and everyone was urged to get their business involved. Forms/brochures were passed out that everyone was REQUIRED to fill out (I didn't) and we were to name the appropriate person at our workplace they could contact.
It was portrayed as another aspect of Landmark Education.
At least an hour on the 2nd or 3rd day (it all runs together) was spent on thier business development wing, and everyone was urged to get their business involved. Forms/brochures were passed out that everyone was REQUIRED to fill out (I didn't) and we were to name the appropriate person at our workplace they could contact.
It was portrayed as another aspect of Landmark Education.
Landmark education business development
Posted by:
ajinajan
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Date: December 27, 2006 03:47AM
Reebok International was on the list of companies that Landmark Education Business Development does business with.
From this CNN Money article, it looks like the CEO's interest in Landmark Education Business Development goes back to his days as a follower of Werner Erhard and the EST Training:
[money.cnn.com]
Here is what that same CEO Paul Fireman says of Landmark Education Business Development:
[www.lebd.com]
Interesting - so perhaps the initial and subsequent involvement between outside companies and Landmark Education Business Development is not necessarily due to the merits or faults of the company itself, but rather to the experiences of those influential members of their participating companies - in "The Forum", The Landmark Forum, or even Werner Erhard and the EST Training, as was the case with Mr. Fireman...
From this CNN Money article, it looks like the CEO's interest in Landmark Education Business Development goes back to his days as a follower of Werner Erhard and the EST Training:
[money.cnn.com]
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Muddying the waters further is Fireman's interest in est, the human-potential program founded by Werner Erhard that drew thousands of devotees in the 1970s. The Reebok chief is outspoken in his admiration for est training--"I believe in anything that allows you to look at yourself and see what's possible," he says. He continues to recommend that his managers take part in a recent derivation of the training called the Forum. The problem, say former Reebok executives, is that the company sometimes divides up between those who buy into the est message and those who don't. Key employees, even top managers, at times seem to be kept out of the loop, denied crucial new research or excluded from strategy meetings unless they accept the est outlook and methods. Fervent est adherents, meanwhile, form a sort of subculture with its own attitudes and jargon. Says one former Reebok manager: "Certain people are always going around saying stuff like 'I need some coaching on that.' "
Here is what that same CEO Paul Fireman says of Landmark Education Business Development:
[www.lebd.com]
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“I have yet to see anything else that has such a positive impact on people’s ability to relate, communicate, and perform as LEBD has . . ."See full statement
Paul Fireman
Chairman and CEO
Reebok International Ltd
Interesting - so perhaps the initial and subsequent involvement between outside companies and Landmark Education Business Development is not necessarily due to the merits or faults of the company itself, but rather to the experiences of those influential members of their participating companies - in "The Forum", The Landmark Forum, or even Werner Erhard and the EST Training, as was the case with Mr. Fireman...
Landmark education business development
Posted by:
ON2 LF
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Date: December 28, 2006 04:55AM
Perhaps the companies who buy the landmark forum for its employees or 'suggest' to their employees to take a forum on their own, don't realize the magnitude of what they are subjecting employees to. Perhaps they know and don't care, after all, they, like landmark are in the money making business. Either way, I'm going to keep a list of any companies that use landmark programming to make better sales people to increase profits, and I will, for my own self, make sure that I no longer do business at any of those businesses. I don't agree with brainwashing employees to increase production any more than I agree with using child labor. It's a matter of principle for me. Ethics are quite underrated these days, and we, the consumer allow it.
Landmark education business development
Posted by:
ON2 LF
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Date: December 28, 2006 05:09AM
to add from last post: I have a family member who runs a development company and uses the services of several different companies to operate and fulfill contracts. I see a few of those businesses listed on my list of 'don't use for any service or product' list, I will be informing this family member of the history and nature of landmark education and its involvement with the businesses his company uses for products or services, and will ask that he reconsider calling any of those businesses again. I am quite certain that those businesses will not be called upon in the future. Quality may not be an issue with the companies I have on my list, but principals sure as hell are. The ends don't always justify the means.
Re: Landmark education business development
Posted by:
ajinajan
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Date: February 14, 2016 08:29AM
A bit more background information on Steven Zaffron aka Stephen Robert Zaffron :
STEVEN ZAFFRON WAS CONVICTED OF MAIL FRAUD PER WERNER ERHARD BIOGRAPHY OUTRAGEOUS BETRAYAL:
Steven Zaffron = convicted of Mail Fraud in 1982.
Steven Zaffron = served Werner Erhard as an Est Trainer in Erhard Seminars Training EST.
Steven Zaffron = current CEO of Vanto Group formerly known as Landmark Education Business Development (LEBD).
Steven Zaffron = current Landmark Forum Leader = highest level rank in Landmark Forum aka Landmark Education aka Landmark Worldwide.
Steven Zaffron = given “lifetime” designation to perform “transformation” work for Werner Erhard forever.
Steven Zaffron = member of the Board of Directors of Landmark and senior executive at Landmark Education aka Landmark Forum aka Landmark Worldwide = helped design the Landmark Forum course itself.
Steven Zaffron = continues to work with Werner Erhard while working at Landmark Education aka Landmark Forum aka Landmark Worldwide and while working as CEO of Vanto Group formerly known as Landmark Education Business Development.
From the book Outrageous Betrayal as quoted at:
“[...] Another one of Erhard's new executives was an est trainer named Steven Zaffron […] Three years after first joining Erhard's staff in 1979, Zaffron had been indicted on mail fraud charges for participating in a scam to collect phony unemployment checks. Zaffron was placed on three years' probation [...] Zaffron [...] agreed to a plea bargain [...] shortly before Erhard conferred on him the coveted 'lifetime' designation to do Werner's transformational work [...]”
Pressman, Steven, Outrageous Betrayal: The dark journey of Werner Erhard from est to exile. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. ISBN 0-312-09296-2 , pg. 217.
CONFIRMED ACCURATE INFORMATION PER 1982 ASSOCIATED PRESS ARTICLE:
“San Francisco (AP) – A man whom prosecutors say masterminded scheme that bilked 13 states out of more than $400,000 in unemployment benefits was sentenced Monday to four years in federal prison for mail fraud.
U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson imposed the sentence on David Adams Muncaster, 50, of Fairfax, who pleaded guilty June 7 to two of 41 counts against him. Three other people also were sentenced after having pleaded guilty to one count each.
Rosalyn Linda Bonas, 40, who lived with Muncaster, was sentenced to 179 days in jail, with the rest of her three-year sentence suspended. Muncaster's former wife, Joan Loretta Sontag, 39, of South Lake Tahoe, drew a three-month term with the rest of her two-year sentence suspended.
Stephen Robert Zaffron, 38, was given a one-year suspended sentence with three years probation.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Ben Burch said the fraud allowed the four to “take extended vacations and live in luxurious surroundings.”
The complaint, covering activities in 13 states and a period of time from November 1975 to November 1981, said Muncaster set up tax accounts for at least 10 fictitious employers in the various states, using private mail drops throughout the San Francisco Bay area.
Then, the government said, he and the others, using false names, applied for Social Security numbers and used them in filing fraudulent interstate unemployment insurance benefits claims at 19 California Employment Development Department offices in the San Francisco area.
Muncaster and the others would appear at these offices saying they were former out-of-state employees of the fictitious companies who had moved to California to look for work.
California would process the claims and forward them to the states where wages were supposedly earned. These states would verify claims by writing to the fictitious employers' Bay area offices.
Muncaster and the others would verify their own claims and states sent out more than 2,000 checks to the various addresses.
B. M. McClanahan, postal inspector in charge, said the defendants rented 22 post office boxes at various places, established mail receiving service at 37 Bay area mail drops, obtained more than 90 fraudulent Social Security cards and opened about 60 bank accounts for benefits paid on 130 unemployment claims.
The states involved were New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Michigan, Connecticut, Vermont, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Delaware, Wisconsin, Ohio, and Hawaii plus the District of Columbia.
California has filed a civil suit on behalf of the other states seeking to recover some of the lost funds.”
Associated Press. San Francisco. Four-year sentence given in 13-state mail fraud case. September 16, 1982. Nashua Telegraph. Page 15.
[news.google.com]
“Mr Zaffron is described in the book's executive summary as "a senior executive and board member with Landmark Education, where he spear-headed the design of the Landmark Forum".”
Baker, Richard; and Nick McKenzie. (August 30, 2011) Department chops $80,000 'charisma' seminar Landmark Education and its offshoots have attracted global controversy for their group training programs. The Age, Australia.
STEPHEN ROBERT ZAFFRON AKA STEVEN ZAFFRON MAINTAINED HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH WERNER ERHARD FOR DECADES, AUTHORING A PAPER WITH HIM AND MICHAEL C. JENSEN ON “INTEGRITY” IN 2009:
Erhard, Werner and Jensen, Michael C. and Zaffron, Steve, Integrity: A Positive Model that Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics and Legality (March 23, 2009). Harvard Business School NOM Working Paper No. 06-11; Barbados Group Working Paper No. 06-03; Simon School Working Paper No. FR 08-05. Available at SSRN: [ssrn.com] or [dx.doi.org]
NOTE THAT AT THIS TIME, STEVEN ZAFRON WAS ASSOCIATED WITH WERNER ERHARD RELATED COMPANIES LANDMARK EDUCATION AKA LANDMARK WORLDWIDE AND ALSO VANTO GROUP, FORMER KNOWN AS LANDMARK EDUCATION BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT (LEBD), FORMERLY KNOWN AS TRANSFORMATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES.
Landmark Education Business Development aka LEBD aka Vanto Group has as its CEO Steven Zaffron.
Zaffron first became an executive for Werner Erhard and was an “est trainer” in Erhard’s company “Erhard Seminars Training” (Outrageous Betrayal by Steven Pressman, St. Martin’s Press: 1993, page 217).
Currently, Zaffron serves the Landmark Education corporation as CEO of “Vanto Group”, formerly known as “Landmark Education Business Development”, and in addition, Zaffron has the highest-ranking “trainer” title in Landmark Education called “Landmark Forum Leader”.
Interestingly, in a publication by Steven Zaffron as its author, “The Promise of Philosophy and the Landmark Forum”, Contemporary Philosophy, Vol. XXIII, No. 1 & 2, Jan/Feb & Mar/Apr 2001 Barbados Group Working Paper No. 01-01. -- Steven Zaffron acknowledges Landmark Education is a form of " Large Group Awareness Training " or LGAT. In this paper co-authored by Zaffron, the phrase “Large Group Awareness Training” is used multiple times in reference to Landmark Education. Example on page 52: “Dennison’s dissertation,7 which categorizes the Landmark Forum as a “large group awareness training” is a qualitative study based on interviews with Forum graduates. He also reports predominantly positive outcomes and in addition, briefly summarizes philosophical components of the Forum. The extensive research literature on “large group awareness training” published in the 1970s and 80s (summarized in Finkelstein, Wenegrat, and Yalom8) is framed in psychological more than philosophical terms, albeit there is some reference to the training as existential psychotherapy.” Two different academic treatises are cited as references in the paper co-authored by Zaffron (see page 59, endnotes 7 and 8, Dennison 1994 and Finkelstein 1982) – and both have the phrase “Large Group Awareness Training” in their titles.
RADARIS INFO ON STEVEN ZAFFRON CONFIRMS HIS INVOLVEMENT WITH TWO WERNER ERHARD RELATED COMPANIES – TEKNIKO LICENSING CORPORATION AND LANDMARK FORUM AKA LANDMARK EDUCATION AKA LANDMARK WORLDWIDE:
Radaris
[radaris.com]
ORGANIZATIONS
Name / Title
Company / Classification
Phones & Addresses
Steven Zaffron
Director
Tekniko Licensing Corporation
1945 N Carson St, Carson City, NV 89701
353 Sacramento St, San Francisco, CA 94111
Steven Zaffron
Manager
LANDMARK WORLDWIDE, LLC
2390 E Camelback Rd, Phoenix, AZ 85016
1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801
353 Sacramento St #200, San Francisco, CA 94111
STEVEN ZAFFRON WAS CONVICTED OF MAIL FRAUD PER WERNER ERHARD BIOGRAPHY OUTRAGEOUS BETRAYAL:
Steven Zaffron = convicted of Mail Fraud in 1982.
Steven Zaffron = served Werner Erhard as an Est Trainer in Erhard Seminars Training EST.
Steven Zaffron = current CEO of Vanto Group formerly known as Landmark Education Business Development (LEBD).
Steven Zaffron = current Landmark Forum Leader = highest level rank in Landmark Forum aka Landmark Education aka Landmark Worldwide.
Steven Zaffron = given “lifetime” designation to perform “transformation” work for Werner Erhard forever.
Steven Zaffron = member of the Board of Directors of Landmark and senior executive at Landmark Education aka Landmark Forum aka Landmark Worldwide = helped design the Landmark Forum course itself.
Steven Zaffron = continues to work with Werner Erhard while working at Landmark Education aka Landmark Forum aka Landmark Worldwide and while working as CEO of Vanto Group formerly known as Landmark Education Business Development.
From the book Outrageous Betrayal as quoted at:
“[...] Another one of Erhard's new executives was an est trainer named Steven Zaffron […] Three years after first joining Erhard's staff in 1979, Zaffron had been indicted on mail fraud charges for participating in a scam to collect phony unemployment checks. Zaffron was placed on three years' probation [...] Zaffron [...] agreed to a plea bargain [...] shortly before Erhard conferred on him the coveted 'lifetime' designation to do Werner's transformational work [...]”
Pressman, Steven, Outrageous Betrayal: The dark journey of Werner Erhard from est to exile. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. ISBN 0-312-09296-2 , pg. 217.
CONFIRMED ACCURATE INFORMATION PER 1982 ASSOCIATED PRESS ARTICLE:
“San Francisco (AP) – A man whom prosecutors say masterminded scheme that bilked 13 states out of more than $400,000 in unemployment benefits was sentenced Monday to four years in federal prison for mail fraud.
U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson imposed the sentence on David Adams Muncaster, 50, of Fairfax, who pleaded guilty June 7 to two of 41 counts against him. Three other people also were sentenced after having pleaded guilty to one count each.
Rosalyn Linda Bonas, 40, who lived with Muncaster, was sentenced to 179 days in jail, with the rest of her three-year sentence suspended. Muncaster's former wife, Joan Loretta Sontag, 39, of South Lake Tahoe, drew a three-month term with the rest of her two-year sentence suspended.
Stephen Robert Zaffron, 38, was given a one-year suspended sentence with three years probation.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Ben Burch said the fraud allowed the four to “take extended vacations and live in luxurious surroundings.”
The complaint, covering activities in 13 states and a period of time from November 1975 to November 1981, said Muncaster set up tax accounts for at least 10 fictitious employers in the various states, using private mail drops throughout the San Francisco Bay area.
Then, the government said, he and the others, using false names, applied for Social Security numbers and used them in filing fraudulent interstate unemployment insurance benefits claims at 19 California Employment Development Department offices in the San Francisco area.
Muncaster and the others would appear at these offices saying they were former out-of-state employees of the fictitious companies who had moved to California to look for work.
California would process the claims and forward them to the states where wages were supposedly earned. These states would verify claims by writing to the fictitious employers' Bay area offices.
Muncaster and the others would verify their own claims and states sent out more than 2,000 checks to the various addresses.
B. M. McClanahan, postal inspector in charge, said the defendants rented 22 post office boxes at various places, established mail receiving service at 37 Bay area mail drops, obtained more than 90 fraudulent Social Security cards and opened about 60 bank accounts for benefits paid on 130 unemployment claims.
The states involved were New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Michigan, Connecticut, Vermont, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Delaware, Wisconsin, Ohio, and Hawaii plus the District of Columbia.
California has filed a civil suit on behalf of the other states seeking to recover some of the lost funds.”
Associated Press. San Francisco. Four-year sentence given in 13-state mail fraud case. September 16, 1982. Nashua Telegraph. Page 15.
[news.google.com]
“Mr Zaffron is described in the book's executive summary as "a senior executive and board member with Landmark Education, where he spear-headed the design of the Landmark Forum".”
Baker, Richard; and Nick McKenzie. (August 30, 2011) Department chops $80,000 'charisma' seminar Landmark Education and its offshoots have attracted global controversy for their group training programs. The Age, Australia.
STEPHEN ROBERT ZAFFRON AKA STEVEN ZAFFRON MAINTAINED HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH WERNER ERHARD FOR DECADES, AUTHORING A PAPER WITH HIM AND MICHAEL C. JENSEN ON “INTEGRITY” IN 2009:
Erhard, Werner and Jensen, Michael C. and Zaffron, Steve, Integrity: A Positive Model that Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics and Legality (March 23, 2009). Harvard Business School NOM Working Paper No. 06-11; Barbados Group Working Paper No. 06-03; Simon School Working Paper No. FR 08-05. Available at SSRN: [ssrn.com] or [dx.doi.org]
NOTE THAT AT THIS TIME, STEVEN ZAFRON WAS ASSOCIATED WITH WERNER ERHARD RELATED COMPANIES LANDMARK EDUCATION AKA LANDMARK WORLDWIDE AND ALSO VANTO GROUP, FORMER KNOWN AS LANDMARK EDUCATION BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT (LEBD), FORMERLY KNOWN AS TRANSFORMATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES.
Landmark Education Business Development aka LEBD aka Vanto Group has as its CEO Steven Zaffron.
Zaffron first became an executive for Werner Erhard and was an “est trainer” in Erhard’s company “Erhard Seminars Training” (Outrageous Betrayal by Steven Pressman, St. Martin’s Press: 1993, page 217).
Currently, Zaffron serves the Landmark Education corporation as CEO of “Vanto Group”, formerly known as “Landmark Education Business Development”, and in addition, Zaffron has the highest-ranking “trainer” title in Landmark Education called “Landmark Forum Leader”.
Interestingly, in a publication by Steven Zaffron as its author, “The Promise of Philosophy and the Landmark Forum”, Contemporary Philosophy, Vol. XXIII, No. 1 & 2, Jan/Feb & Mar/Apr 2001 Barbados Group Working Paper No. 01-01. -- Steven Zaffron acknowledges Landmark Education is a form of " Large Group Awareness Training " or LGAT. In this paper co-authored by Zaffron, the phrase “Large Group Awareness Training” is used multiple times in reference to Landmark Education. Example on page 52: “Dennison’s dissertation,7 which categorizes the Landmark Forum as a “large group awareness training” is a qualitative study based on interviews with Forum graduates. He also reports predominantly positive outcomes and in addition, briefly summarizes philosophical components of the Forum. The extensive research literature on “large group awareness training” published in the 1970s and 80s (summarized in Finkelstein, Wenegrat, and Yalom8) is framed in psychological more than philosophical terms, albeit there is some reference to the training as existential psychotherapy.” Two different academic treatises are cited as references in the paper co-authored by Zaffron (see page 59, endnotes 7 and 8, Dennison 1994 and Finkelstein 1982) – and both have the phrase “Large Group Awareness Training” in their titles.
RADARIS INFO ON STEVEN ZAFFRON CONFIRMS HIS INVOLVEMENT WITH TWO WERNER ERHARD RELATED COMPANIES – TEKNIKO LICENSING CORPORATION AND LANDMARK FORUM AKA LANDMARK EDUCATION AKA LANDMARK WORLDWIDE:
Radaris
[radaris.com]
ORGANIZATIONS
Name / Title
Company / Classification
Phones & Addresses
Steven Zaffron
Director
Tekniko Licensing Corporation
1945 N Carson St, Carson City, NV 89701
353 Sacramento St, San Francisco, CA 94111
Steven Zaffron
Manager
LANDMARK WORLDWIDE, LLC
2390 E Camelback Rd, Phoenix, AZ 85016
1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801
353 Sacramento St #200, San Francisco, CA 94111
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