Werner Erhard is an internationally renowned figure of our time, as the originator of the unique model of transformational learning that has shaped human consciousness in the last half of the 20th century.  Werner Erhard is one of the great thinkers to come out of the 1970’s and 80’s, having impacted, for decades, the area of individual and organizational effectiveness throughout the world.

Werner Erhard’s notion of transformation redefined how people saw their lives and continues to be seen as a powerful, practical, and relevant resource in contemporary society. Werner Erhard’s insights into the nature of productivity and human performance have been widely used and successfully applied in the fields of psychology, anthropology, sociology, physics, medicine and philosophy, as well as in business management.

Fortune Magazine, in examining the major contributions to management thinking, recognized Werner Erhard's transformational programs as the major innovation of the 1970’s in shaping modern management thinking toward empowering people.

Werner Erhard is an active corporate consultant and lecturer and continues to make a difference with his work in companies and institutions world-wide.  Over the past 20 years Werner Erhard has been engaged at Stanford University, MIT, Soviet Academy of Sciences, UNESCO and the American Psychiatric Association.

Werner Erhard’s work and the est Training has been the subject of numerous books, articles and professional reports by independent authors.  Werner Erhard’s ideas and methodology were considered revolutionary when first introduced and now Werner Erhard’s ideas are recognized as having forged new territories as the leading edge in personal and corporate training and development.  Werner Erhard and est are acknowledged today as making an enormous impact on people and society.

Werner Erhard is co-founder of several independent not-for-profit charitable organizations including the Hunger Project.  In 1988, Werner Erhard was honored with the Mahatma Gandhi Humanitarian Award, citing “…your notable effort to end the starvation and hunger suffered by millions throughout the world and for drawing broad public awareness to the value of integrity in our everyday lives."