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 "Marshall Thurber is an evolutionary event in our time."
World-renowned scholar and Nobel Laureate
Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller
Marshall Thurber is an educator, scholar, businessman, inventor, attorney, real estate developer, editor, author, and visionary.
In the 1970 s, along with two partners, Marshall started Hawthorne/Stone and built it into highly successful real estate firm in California. Using innovative win-win business theories and methods developed by Marshall, the company restored over 150 Victorian homes in a historic area of San Francisco.
Following his success in real estate, Marshall co-founded the Burklyn Business School in Vermont. The school was designed to teach the global principles of cooperation and abundance he learned from Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller and the contextual principles of the human potential movement. The unique teaching methods employed at Burklyn included Superlearning Technologies"!. These right-brain focused games and simulations were designed by Marshall to create powerful learning experiences that embody his popular saying - A truth believed is only a belief. A truth experienced is truth.
Marshall went on to develop several successful experiential learning programs including his signature course Money & You, as well as:
Thousands of individuals worldwide have attended these programs and actively use "Thurber Techniques" in their daily lives and businesses.
A list of his students includes such success stories as Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen of Chicken Soup for the Soul fame, 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.
In his private consulting business, Marshall has consulted for high profile 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 and employment law and executive management practices.
 His many honors include the "Cohen H. Kerr Award" for highest academic achievement in an undergraduate class at Boston University; Boston University's "Utopia Award"; Union College's Gold Key Award for outstanding service to the school; the "Maud Glover Folsom Foundation Award" given to one individual each year in the United States; and a State of Hawaii Senate Resolution specifically acknowledging Mr. Thurber's "outstanding contribution to furthering overall human success."
Marshall s most recent work is a new program called The Success Secrets for the 21st Century. This course combines his experience from the past 30 years of living Buckminster Fuller s generalized principles with his new research in the concepts of network science and positive deviancy.
Marshall teaches that in our networked world, the most effective way to run a profitable business is to employ "win-win" strategies of cooperation that build integrity and foster social responsibility.
Marshall has also assembled a group of successful entrepreneurs, business leaders, philanthropists, and other positive deviants in his yearlong program called The Positive Deviant Network. In this program the members work with each other to put into practice the theories learned in Success Secrets and support each other in developing solutions for transformational change.
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