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Phil Lawson is an inventor, author, speaker and the founder/president of B’Wholed
—a company that teaches people and organizations to function completely.

Phil Lawson was less than two years old when American painter Jackson Pollack died at 44, in 1956.

Pollack was a major force in the abstract expressionist movement and developed a unique "drip" technique that, in some of his paintings, displayed the properties of fractals—repeating geometric structures in nature that give order to chaos—a discovery made by scientists after his death.

At 44, Lawson began a five-year book writing project to establish how and why our outdated machine-like worldview is being replaced by chaos theory, complexity and quantum mechanics.

Make no mistake, Lawson and Pollack are not intrinsically linked in anyway, other than this: Pollack found a way to capture the emergent patterns in nature in his chaotic splatter paintings; Phil Lawson has found a way to thrive in a chaotic world by intuiting its natural patterns.

If you're wondering why you've never heard of Phil Lawson before now, he would tell you it wasn't time.

We had to reach this very spot in history—the next step in the development of our civilization, a step that may ultimately be essential to the very survival of the human race—before anyone could hear his message.

Especially, when you consider he has none of the typical qualifications to lend credence to his message—no masters degrees or Ph.D.

Lawson was not educated in the system, but he is highly self-educated—a value-added skill that he believes will define the way many people learn in the future as they swiftly and intuitively navigate their way through continuous, on-going change and new opportunities.

We live at a time when the accepted rules of success are expiring. In recent years, we have been introduced to hordes of disruptive advances: the World Wide Web; the personal computer; spreadsheets; email; e-learning; wifi; mapquest; google; wikipedia; i-tunes and youtube to name but a few. Meanwhile, we must react to news of global warming; geo political instabilities, religious extremism and financial volatility.

Lawson knows what its like to lead an unconventional life—one that requires a constant adjustment in thinking and actions to survive. His life has been punctuated by anxiety, unique accomplishments and quantum leaps of awareness. He adapted to each of his challenges by searching for the bigger picture, best he could, regarding the environements and circumstances he experienced; he did so with little investment to the entrenched views of others.

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By the time Lawson graduated high school at 16, he had already attended 11 different schools due to his father's employment that required frequent moves.

Married at 18, he and his young wife headed to Alabama and Mississippi where they served in a volunteer ministry work for 10 years that included church-related racial integration activities and counseling services. They did so without any preparations for their future, for career advancements or retirement strategies. Lawson became an ordained minister but worked as a janitor to pay his own way.

Lawson was in his late 20s when he began his secular career. Even so, he swiftly worked his way through a variety of corporate positions, was involved with fast growth and turnaround strategies, and traveled to 13 countries. (Note the sidebar for specific details about those positions.)

He was also a commercial photographer in Hollywood, along with his wife Pamela, and worked for the publishing, periodical and entertainment industry.

Lawson has authored four trade books on technology and business management, as well more than 50 published magazine articles. He has conducted seminars and strategic planning retreats worldwide.

Through it all, he observed firsthand the constraints of harmful belief systems and outdated business processes. He challenged many of those and searched for more workable, humane models. He has seen individuals and organizations succeed when conventional wisdom predicted failure. He has seen others fail when conventional wisdom marked them for success.

By age 44, when he began a five-year book writing project about his discoveries, in an old log cabin in the Rocky Mountains, he had already sampled a dozen different careers and lifestyles. (He even worked as a postman to support himself while writing the book.)

Now he has launched a company called B'wholed that trains people and organizations to function completely. It aids individuals, organizations and communities to think whole; to see whole; to be whole. It helps people shift their mindset from control and hierarchy to interconnectivity and self-organization.

His whole method helps people and organizations to break free of prevailing, but limiting, belief systems and connect the dots of their life. It provides personal insights and expands their fields of attraction to prepare them for transformational opportunities.

Phil Lawson has survived and thrived against the odds—but then, so have other fellow humans, with even more remarkable stories. What marks this journey unique is the discovery, by a self-made man, of the invisible patterns of synchronicities and interconnections among us, that continues to defy the prescribed worldview. To that end, it remains an exciting adventure.

It’s transformational to be whole.

Copyright 2007 Phil Lawson