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Fred Kofman is the co-founder and president of Axialent, an international consulting company specializing in leadership development and teamwork. Fred has created and taught programs in leadership, personal mastery, team learning, organizational effectiveness, and coaching for more than 15,000 participants. His clients include industry leaders such as Microsoft, Shell, Yahoo! and General Motors. Business leaders seek out Fred because of his extraordinary ability to inspire people to act with greater responsibility, integrity and courage. His ideas combine philosophical depth with practical applicability.
Fred holds a PhD in economics from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was distinguished as outstanding instructor. He worked as an assistant professor of Management Accounting and Control Systems at MIT's Sloan School of Management, where he received the "Teacher of the Year" award in 1992. At MIT, he was also a senior researcher at the Organizational Learning Center, where he worked with Peter Senge. He is a founding member of the Integral Institute, where he works with Ken Wilber. He is also a member of the Dharma Ocean Foundation, an organization devoted to meditation practice led by Reginald Ray.
His work has appeared in several publications including The Fifth Discipline Field Book, The Journal of Organizational Dynamics, Management Science, and Econometrica. He is the author of the trilogy Metamanagement (Granica, 2024) and the audio program Conscious Business (Sounds True, 2024).
Fred has led seminars in the U.S., Europe, South America and Asia and presented his research at MIT's Sloan School, Harvard University's Economic Department, Harvard Business School, the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, the University of California at Los Angeles and Berkeley, The London School of Economics, the University of Tel Aviv, Universidad de Barcelona, Nanyang Technological Institute of Singapore, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires, and Universidad Francisco MarroquÃn. He also teaches at Naropa University and the University of Notre Dame's Executive MBA and non-degree executive education programs.
Beyond his work, Fred enjoys traveling and outdoor activities, having run several marathons, climbed Aconcagua, Huaina Potosi, Kilimanjaro and Mt. Kenya, heli-skied in the Bugaboos and the Himalayas, scuba-dived in the Caribbean, and trekked for several weeks in Nepal and Thailand. Fred lives with his wife and six children in Boulder, Colorado.
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