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Sylvia Lafair's Biography

Member Info

Santa Fe , New Mexico
Husband is Herb Kaufman and we work together in our leadership/team development business
May 2009

Always loved writing. Yet I put it aside to raise a family and become a family therapist. Morphed into a business/leadership consultant when I realized we all, at least most of us, work and there is a lack of deep creative use of language in the day to day "let's get it done" business world. I saw my knack for storytelling, my love of myth, and my therapeutic background were a unique blend in quantitiative work settings. I finally had the material Ineeded for writing my book and found that time disappeared as I sat and crafted the amazing adventures possible when work colleagues began to tell each other the truth. It has been a delight to see what can happen in an organization when there is a shift into human universals that underline "we are all in it together and no one wins unless we all do".

Influences

Sylvia Plath; Annie Proux; Isabel Allende; Tom Robbins; Willis Harman; Jean Houston;

Upcoming Works

Dont Bring It to Work: Breaking the Family Patterns that Limit Success; Ka-Ching: The Secret Meaning of Money; Guns:Can't Run and Can't Hide

Agents

Lorin Rees, Helen Rees Agency

Recommended Links

Publishers

Jossey Bass, a subsidiary of Wiley Inc.

Interests & Hobbies

Travel, travel, travel, so long as it is to meet the people of the land and learn about how we are different and similar; reading, so long as the words have flow and grace; playing with my grandkiddies to see the new world they are inhabiting