More About Me

My personal website at ClaudeWhitmyer.Com  includes a detailed biographical record of my work life (probably more than you’d ever want to know). For your convenience, while you’re here, I’ll expand a little on what I said in “The Short of It” on the “About Claude Whitmyer” page.

Small Business Owner (more than 40 years)

• Manufacturing
  • Glycerin soap and “natural” cosmetics
    • (hand cream, suntan lotion, shampoo, hair rinse, beard groom, mustache wax, liquid soap, etc.)
• Distribution
  • Energy-efficient and alternative energy products
    • (radiant heat panels, air-tight wood stoves, solar hot water and an extensive selection of energy saving appliances and durable kitchenware.)
• Retailing
  • Books, tools, and appliances selected from Whole Earth Catalog reviews.
  • Urban-oriented (living in the city)
    • (alternative energy/appropriate technology, organic gardening and drip irrigation; 6,000 title book department, nomadic furniture, and other self-reliance in the city products.)
• Consulting
  • Computerization of small business
  • General management and operations
  • Right livelihood businesses
• Private business school
  • Teaching right livelihood strategies for businesses and non-profits.
• Vocational guidance practice
  • Coaching about right livelihood.
• Consulting
  • Teaching and Learning Online
  • Online meetings, virtual teams, and Web-based marketing and communications.
  • Using the Internet as The Great Equalizer for small and really small projects, initiatives, or businesses.

Business Consultant (more than 30 years), specializing in:

• Planning and Strategic Thinking
• Growth management
• Marketing and market research
• Organizational culture change
• Partnership mediation
• Personnel retention and career (right livelihood) guidance
• Values-based (right livelihood) management practices
• Virtual communications and learning
• Internet Technology In Business or Education

Business Educator (more than 30 years):

Graduate, postgraduate, private education programs, and professional organizations for which I have acted as administrator, advisor, instructor, or guest lecturer:

• ACCORD Organizational Development Network
• Health Forum Fellowship Programs, American Hospital Association
• Bay Area Organizational Development Network
• Center for Business and Democracy, Goddard College
• Center for Good Work, University of the Future, LLC
• Center for Professional Education, University of Phoenix Online
• Center for the Future of Organizations,
  California School of Professional Psychology
• Environmental Education Department, Prescott College
• Heald Business College
• Human Services Administration, Notre Dame de Namur University,
• Institute for Creation Spirituality, Holy Names College
• Institute Fortagsütveckling
• Kaos Pilots University
• Kürsbyn Körpberget
• Learning Resource Center, New College of California
• Marketing Department, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
• Master of Arts in Business, California Institute of Integral Studies
• Master of Business Administration, Holy Names College
• Master of Business Administration, University of Bristol
• Master of International Business, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées
• McKinnon School of Massage
• Narings Liv
• Noren Institute
• Nyingma Institute
• Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center
• Residency Program, Saybrook Graduate School
• School of Broadcast Communication Arts, San Francisco State University
• The New Business Academy, Dartington College
• Thousand Island Institute
• Western Alliance of Arts Administrators
• Writers Connection

Media Expert (more than 15 years)

Small business management and business computing, featured in:

• Business Ethics
• California Magazine
• Home Office Computing
• Integral Yoga Magazine
• Newsweek
• PC World
• San Francisco Bay Guardian
• The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog
• The Office (monthly software review column)
• Truly Portable Computers
• Yoga Journal

Also invited guest on nationally syndicated radio talk shows.

Non-fiction Writer (nearly 30 years)

Print Books

Running A One-Person Business, 2nd Revised Edition with Salli Raspberry. Foreword by Tom Peters. (60,000+ in print.)

Mindfulness and Meaningful Work: Explorations in Right Livelihood. Foreword by Ernest Callenbach. 20,000+ in print.)

In the Company of Others: Making Community in the Modern World with Gail Terry Grimes. Foreword by Eric Utne. (10,000 in print).

Ebooks

Running a Good Business (The Smashwords Series), FutureU Press, 2011-2018.

• Book 1: Why Good? Why Now
• Book 2: Becoming a Learning Organization
• Book 3: Becoming Values Focused
• Book 4: Start-Up and Legal Matters
• Supplement to Book 4: Self-Assessment for Tradeskill
• Book 5: Setting Up Shop
• Book 6: Choosing Technology
• Book 7: Designing Your Space

Herding Cats Through the Gates to Cyberspace: The Process of Introducing Virtual Collaboration and Learning Technology as a Tool For Large-Group Interventions, with Gail Terry Grimes. (Smashwords Edition, FutureU Press, 2011).