Founder Patricia Klauer

Within every endeavor in life lies the seed or opportunity for transformation and the possibility for transformation is endless…

• As a young entrepreneur I owned a restaurant.
• Attracted to the healing arts, I became a licensed chiropractor.
• Called to the world of Information Technology, I found myself at the vanguard of computing as a systems programmer at MIT in the year the Media Lab opened and the Connection Machine was unveiled. I met and was influenced by thought leaders of that time such as Marvin Minsky, Danny Hillis, Brewster Kahle and Timothy Leary. I was experimenting with new technologies that later became ubiquitous such as Arpanet (Internet) and the first generation relational database.
• On Wall Street, I built some of the first large scale relational database systems for financial institutions and, uptown with the United Nations worked with a diverse team both in NYC & South America, developing a data architecture for sharing information across a variety of systems platforms, languages and geographical boundaries.

Whether diagnosing and treating patients, organizing huge amounts of data, guiding IT managers to reorganize their departments, or developing data warehouse architectures or streamlining business process certain insights started coming into focus. There is an underlying consistency in the principles that rule complex systems and organization that apply in every respect on every front. From chiropractor to data modeler, from business analyst to project manager and ultimately as strategic planner, architect and author - all of it is the practice of self-discovery.

The goal is always the same -- to create a structure that has integrity, supports transformation and facilitates understanding.