ABOUT: OUR FOUNDERS
Martin Rutte is a dynamic, international speaker and consultant on spirituality
in the workplace. He is committed to reconnecting business with its natural
source of creativity, innovation and genius.
As President of Livelihood, a management consulting firm in Santa Fe, New Mexico, he explores the deeper meaning of work and its contribution to society. The company's areas of service include: strategic vision, corporate spirit, performance management, and creative leadership.
Martin has worked with such organizations as The World Bank, Quad/Graphics, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Southern California Edison, Virgin Records, Labatt Breweries, and London Life Insurance in expanding their outlook and positioning themselves for the future.
He was the first Canadian to address the Corporate Leadership & Ethics Forum of the Harvard Business School, and returned for four years as keynote speaker. He has also twice addressed joint meetings of the American and Canadian Chambers of Commerce in Hong Kong.
Martin's pioneering work on spirituality in the workplace was featured on the ABC-TV special, "Creativity: Touching the Divine," in which he was interviewed and shown addressing The World Bank. He was also a keynote speaker at all five International Conferences on Spirituality in Business, in Mexico.
Articles on his innovative work have appeared in: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Miami Herald, The Toronto Star, South China Morning Post & Personnel Journal. He is also co-author of the New York Times business bestseller, Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work.
Martin is a member of the Board of Advisors of Pole to Pole 2000. He has served as a board member of Money Concepts Canada, Global Family, The Hunger Project Canada, and as a committee member of The Canadian Cancer Society.
Richard Porter is president and a founding partner of Porter & Porter Knowledgeworks Inc and e-Bridge Consulting Inc. He has a degree in Systems Design Engineering from the University the Waterloo and is a Professional Engineer. Over the last 20 years, Richard has worked for a number of large international corporations including General Foods, Canron and Nestle. He also had operational responsibility for a major Canadian value added reseller in the PC distribution business. In 1992, he formed Porter & Porter Knowledgeworks to take his experiences in high-performance customer service and supply chain management to a broader marketplace.
Over the 20 years of his experience Richard has held senior positions in information technology and general management and provided consulting services to a number of industry sectors including:
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Most recently, Richard has consulted in the fields of e-Business and e-Commerce. He has developed marketing strategies for a number of internet start-up companies and portal plays.
Richard grew up in the Yukon in Northern Canada and remained there as a young man, surveying the Dempster Highway. During that period he developed both a great love and great respect for nature. Richard is the father of two wonderful young men and stepfather to another. Currently, he and his wife, Kate, live in Vancouver, near the shores of English Bay next to Stanley Park. They get great joy out of their frequent walks along the seawall.
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