Marshall Thurber
A Truth Believed is Only a Belief,
A Truth Experienced is Truth

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.”  

Mark Victor Hansen
15 Disciplines From the Leonardo DaVinci of Our Time

Dr. R Buckminster Fuller was an American visionary called the Leonardo DaVinci of our time, and Mark Victor Hansen had the joy of studying beneath such a great mentor one on one.  

“Bucky”, as he was affectionately called, mastered 15 different disciplines.  To some he was a mathematician, architect, engineer, inventor, poet, philosopher, cartographer, cosmogonist, author, visionary and futurist.  He personally preferred to be call a comprehensivist as someone who knows how to think in whole systems…to think about universe rather than specialties, like physics or biology. 

Mark will be teaching how to be an individual success and contributor in the universe.  He will inspire individuals to be 100% successful economically and philosophically.  To use Bucky’s Design Science Wisdom.  (Fuller is best known for his inventions of the Geodesic Dome, Dymaxion Car, Dymaxion Home and Bathroom.)

Mark will break Bucky's great comprehensive thinking down, including his synergetic energetic mathematics, so that you (Fuller would say a nine-year old) can do it and make it work for yourself to become successful, so in turn that you can help humanity become more successful.

As you hear how a real genius focused his attention and really thought, Fuller’s brilliance and insight will inspire you to think bigger, wiser, more insightfully and more profitably, as Fuller would say, omni beneficially than you ever thought before.

Amy Edmondson
A Fuller Explanation

Amy is Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management and Chair of the Doctoral Programs at Harvard Business School and Chair of the Committee of Higher Degrees in Business Studies at Harvard University. The Novartis Chair was established to enable the study of human interactions that lead to the creation of successful business enterprises for the betterment of society.

Edmondson joined the Harvard faculty as an Assistant Professor in 1996. Her research examines leadership influences on learning and innovation in teams and organizations. Her field-based approach includes research in contexts ranging from health care delivery and manufacturing to space exploration. One stream of her work has shown effects of leadership behavior and a safe psychological climate on patient safety in hospitals. Another stream investigates management team practices that promote effective decision-making. She also has studied leadership enablers of organizational learning, more generally.