Our Mentors

We have been very fortunate to have been able to study the work of, and be personally trained by two men who we hold not only in the highest regard professionally, but who have become our mentors and friends.

H. Stephen Glenn, Ph.D. is the author of the book Raising Self-Reliant Children in a Self-Indulgent World and the originator of the Developing Capable People® workshop materials.  We have done trainings, workshops and presentations with these materials for over twenty years.  We served as editors on the revision of the materials and Phyl contributed original poetry to what was renamed the Developing Capable Young People® workshop. 

Taibi Kahler, Ph.D. is the author of The Mastery of Management and the originator of the Process Communication Model® (PCM), which sets out six personality types, their character strengths, perceptions, psychological needs, motivational strategies, and behaviors under stress.  Our association with Dr. Kahler began in 2001.

Our exposure to the work of these two men has been an “aha” for us.  When we began to see the strength of integrating the personality types from the work of Dr. Kahler with the “Significant Seven” from Dr. Glenn’s work, we had what Dr. Glenn likes to describe as a BFO – a Blinding Flash of the Obvious.  Our toolbox runneth over!

It was an honor for us to entertain these two men in our home and allow them to meet for the first time.  Their work provided the vision for Developing Capable Mentors.