Landon Carter

Landon Carter Quick Facts

Landon graduated from Yale (BS engineering ’65) and
Harvard Business School (MBA finance and manufacturing ’67). He taught
at Stanford University’s Business School in Lima, Peru, while in the
Peace Corps. Returning to the US, he joined the development team for
Snowmass at Aspen. In 1972, Landon went to India to study and meditate
with Satya Sai Baba, which catalyzed a significant change in life
direction. In 1973 he joined Erhard Seminars Training (EST) where he
was a trainer for the next seven years. During that time he created and
managed the intensive, residential 6-Day Course and the Teen program as
well as leading the basic training for over 50,000 people. During the
1970s Landon started World Runners, a running club dedicated to ending
world hunger. Through marathon run pledges, he personally raised over
$1,000,000 to support that cause.

In
1980, Landon took a break from training people to complete the 1100
mile Iditarod Dog Sled Race in Alaska. He then worked for the
investment banking firm of Montgomery Securities as an institutional
broker, prior to forming his own consulting company, Dynamic Financial
Presentations. In this capacity Landon worked with more than 60
start-up and IPO companies. In the mid ‘80s, Landon co-founded Active
Learning Inc., a company dedicated to teaching high school and college
students how to succeed in school. Although the program was a success,
eventually reaching 10,000 students and selling a video version to
Time-Warner, a critical marketing mistake resulted in the company going
bankrupt.

In 1990, Landon turned his attention to
the corporate arena and joined Human Factors Inc. as a principal. He
was responsible for the Polaroid account and conducted the 5-Day
residential executive training program with the 200 top executives of
the company (in groups of 12) and then a similar non-residential
program with about 1600 employees (in groups of 100). Landon has led
trainings with other companies as well, including the senior executive
teams of Sony USA and Praecis Pharmaceuticals, and executives of Master
Card, AT&T, Kodak, Otis Elevator, Sealand, Tandem Computers and
Allianz Life Insurance.

In 1998, Landon immigrated
to New Zealand, where he resides most of the time. His three grown
children live in the US bringing him back frequently. Landon is an avid
competitive rower and has won the masters world championship in single
sculls as well as nine US masters titles. He is also a glider
instructor as well as power pilot. In 2004, Landon published his book
Living Awake: the practice of transforming everyday life. He has
conducted seminars in New Zealand, Canada, and the US based on this
material.

Currently, Landon works with both
corporate and individual clients, as a coach, trainer, consultant, and
mentor. His emphasis is on empowering people, teams, and corporations
to be able to clarify and create what they want, measured by both
success and satisfaction.