Laurence G. Boldt

Laurence G. Boldt (born 1954) is the author of Zen and the Art of Making a Living, Zen Soup, The Tao of Abundance and How to Find the Work You Love. He lives in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area" title="San Francisco Bay Area" >San Francisco Bay Area</a> and works as a career consultant. His books are a hybrid between Eastern religious principles (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoism" title="Taoism" >Taoism</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen" title="Zen" >Zen</a>) and pragmatic Western problem solving. The theme of his works is to live a happy, prosperous, productive life that respects and incorporates Taoist principles. For Western readers, he furnishes accessible and persuasive works which call upon readers to integrate enlightened Eastern practices into their daily lives and workplaces.

<img src="/ee38e686-6da3-57fd-a91e-933d4390caf8.gif"/>Meet Laurence Boldt

For over two decades, author Laurence Boldt has been helping people to live their dreams, through his work as a writer, speaker, and career consultant. He is the author of five books, including the bestselling career classic Zen and the Art of Making a Living. This groundbreaking work has been credited by many with revolutionizing the career field, offering a new a vision of work and a new technology of vocational guidance. Boldt's other books include the bestselling How to Find the Work You Love, Zen Soup, and The Tao of Abundance.

Today, three of Boldt's books are used as graduate-level course texts at leading public and private universities across the country. His books appear on the required and recommended reading lists of such prestigious institutions as Columbia Business School, USC Marshall School of Business, and the Yale Law School. His books have won praise in articles and reviews from such diverse publications as Newsweek, Mademoiselle, Selling, Business Ethics, African Business,Sales and Marketing Management, Publisher’s Weekly, New Age Journal, Common Boundary, and The Simple Living Journal. Laurence Boldt is a leading interpreter of Eastern philosophy to the modern West. His book The Tao of Abundance was recognized as one of the <a href="http://www.empoweryou.com/laurence-boldt-tao-of-abundance-top-ten-book-1999.html" target="_blank" >top ten books on Eastern religion</a> in 1999 by the editors of Amazon.com.

Laurence has appeared on hundreds of <a href="http://www.empoweryou.com/laurence-boldt-media.shtml" >radio shows and television programs</a>across the nation. An in-demand motivational speaker, Boldt has given seminars, workshops, and lectures for leading business, nonprofit, and educational organizations. He has designed curricula for high school and college courses and corporate training programs. As young man, Laurence completed a forty-day fast. Today, he enjoys writing poetry, reading, meditating, and spending time in nature. An avid backpacker, he has hiked the length of the <a href="http://www.pcta.org/about_trail/muir/links.asp" target="_blank" >John Muir Trail</a>. He lives in Southern California.