Tom and Jerri

Thomas and Jerri Fuhriman, founders of LifeTraks, Inc. have a combined experience of over 50 years of training and facilitating. Their extensive experience in multicultural environments includes delivering workshops, training, and consulting in many countries throughout Europe, Asia-Pacific, South America and the U.S. This has given them a unique ability to work with a variety of organizations and cultures.

Their practical, unique approach effectively changes their clients' beliefs, values, and culture, having a dramatic impact on not only the personal lives of the participants, but their organizations as well.

Besides the many individuals that have benefited from their training and coaching, they have worked with many organizations including non-profits and small and large businesses. Some of the clients they have worked with include Compaq, Ericsson, Hitachi Data Systems, Sprint, Attachmate, Community Partners of Idaho, Occurrance, and Envirotech.

Thomas is a member of the National Speakers Association and is an experienced motivational speaker. Thomas and Jerri share 8 children, their horses, and a love for teaching. Jerri is a professional horse trainer and riding instructor, as well as an experienced facilitator and teacher. With over 25 years experience she has developed a number of ways to use horses as powerful training tools. Some of the business and personal workshops include ground work with horses; no riding required, just interacting with a powerful and totally honest, and alive feedback mechanism.

They have many years of working with families and individuals on core life skills; communication, conflict resolution, relationship building, and changing or eliminating destructive self-beliefs. During that time they also successfully transitioned those skills into helping organizations change and eliminate destructive organizational values, practices, and culture. As international consultants they have helped many multi-national and global companies transition to the organization of the future where values are based on collaboration, efficient sharing of knowledge, and a balance between individual creativity and organizational unity.

Their gifted way of delivering a message makes it easier for those they are working with to join in, accept and embrace what can often be difficult changes. Individuals, and organizations, have a natural resistance to change. Although we all recognize individually that change is necessary, emotionally we fear the unknown consequences. One of Thomas and Jerri's abilities is to frame change in a way that allows individuals and organizations to recognize and manage their fear of change, allowing them to make rapid progress and growth.

They have used these skills and experience with many different types of projects. The last few years the focus has been on knowledge management. Knowledge Management has become key to the success of any organization in today's business environment. The challenges of effectively managing knowledge are immense. Many of the methods are mostly new and contrary to many of today's organizational culture and values. Although this conflict between culture and current objectives is the primary reason for organizational failure, it is rarely being addressed or resolved.