Body Mind Spirit Journeys - Allan Holender Speaker

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Allan M. Holender
SEDONA: Zentreat & Sacred Journey

October 5 - 11, 2008

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"The fusion of one’s personal vision with one’s professional mission, grounded in activism and a holistic philosophy, will hallmark the next 100 years.”
- Allan Holender

As a leadership and team building trainer, Allan has developed and delivered programs to colleges, universities, hospitals, and the corporate world.

He has mentored entrepreneurs, CEOs, and senior management from some of North America's top-ranked companies. He is also a popular media personality and commentator in Canada and the United States, having hosted a nationally syndicated business radio show on the Talk America radio network. As a speaker he has addressed thousands across Canada and the United States, and captured a worldwide audience through his web-related media appearances.

Allan gained his knowledge through first-hand experience as a business owner, "serial" entrepreneur, CEO, manager, leadership expert, teacher, writer, and broadcaster. He delivers his life lessons with both passion and humor - helping others to create that all important balance between all the elements of one's life.

Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Allan holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of Montana. He went on to graduate school and shortly thereafter began a long career with the Big Brothers organization. Later he assumed senior administrative positions in advancement with the Universities of British Columbia and Alberta. Allan is a pioneer in the fund development industry, having founded two professional associations.

Allan Holender is the author of Zentrepreneurism: A 21st Century Guide to the New World of Business, the revolutionary new book that has people talking. It has been called by many "North America's wake up call" or "The Inconvenient Truth about American Business"!

Not every generation is privileged to see the start of a future. We are - and in Zentrepreneurism, Allan Holender has acted as its revelator, its prophet, if you will. We are used to thinking of prophets as heralds of a far-off future. But prophets simply crystallize what is ready to be born. The world of social and natural capitalism, the world of full-life living, the world of service coupled with entrepreneurial behavior that this book and movement represents has been building for the past thirty years. With this revelation, the business world - and our personal lives - are destined to change.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Allan Holender has looked unflinchingly at the dark and self-destructive aspects of our business culture that most commentators ignore or deny. Zentrepeneurism, the profound but practical philosophy that he dramatically outlines in this book builds upon capitalism's most powerful assets while infusing it with a higher purpose. It is more than a new business model. It is an inspiring new value system for business leaders, a guidepost for the 21st Century.”
Robert L. FitzPatrick, Business analyst and author, False Profits

"Allan Holender reveals the valueless and destructive tendencies of contemporary business while remaining passionately and optimistically committed to the possibility of a better future."
Joel Bakan, author, The Corporation

"With Zen you learn that arrows reach their mark because they belong there, the archer only assists. Zentrepeneurism is an ethos - already in use - who’s time has come, and Allan Holender is the messenger. Allan has emerged from the fires of greed-based capitalism ahead of his time, showing the way business will be in the future. That said, the future is now."
Yves Farges, Founder, CEO Qualifirst Group

"This book is a passionate, profound invitation to stop thinking about business and life as it should be and to start experiencing it as it could be."
Stuart Avery Gold author, Ping A Frog in Search of a New Pond

“Allan Holender is quite the guy: open seeker, Yiddish jokester, empathetic listener, articulate ethicist—keen and sincere to raise consciousness in the corporate world. To manifest his vision, he has midwifed Zentrepreneurship – to spark and serve a need to develop ethics and spirituality within the mundane and sometimes dirty world of business. He cites many examples of leaders who have incorporated varying measures of ethics and spirit into their entrepreneurial organizations. Zen philosophy and practice evolved many centuries ago. Contemplative in nature and sudden in awakening, Zen has come to mean for many in the West a serene state of awareness, where the great is perceived and realized in the small; where peace comes from within; where wisdom is without words—defying description, when the darkness of ignorance is dispelled by enlightenment.
Whether Buddhist, Christian, Jew, Hindu, Sikh, Muslim, agnostic, Eastern or Western, anyone can enjoy a “Zen” moment at any time by attuning one’s consciousness to a higher level, by shifting gear, by becoming still and deeply aware. The beauty of meditation practice is that it often spills over into one’s mundane life – even into one’s business enterprise, if thus called upon, enhancing, enriching, inspiring, and affecting the environment for the better. Zentrepreneurship is an excellent and often humorous guide for those wishing to blend entrepreneurship with their higher aspirations, and what better man than Allan Holender to accomplish this! Read the book, and take something of value from it.”
Arran Stephens, founder and CEO of Nature’s Path – North America’s largest organic breakfast foods company

Allan's highly acclaimed speaking presentations on "Creating Passion, Purpose and Profits with Integrity" have gained national attention. His website has become a forum for the world-wide growth of the Zentrepreneurism movement.

For more information about Allan and the Centre for Zentrepreneurism, click here.

To order Zentrepreneurism: A 21st Century Guide to the New World of Business, click here.

For a complete itinerary for the October 2008 Zentreat & Sacred Journey please click here