Education

Kolbe Corp has always offered educational discounts on Kolbe Indexes for classroom use.

Kolbe's groundbreaking research with children is revealing the truth behind supposed learning disabilities. Many children — who could thrive in school if they were only given the freedom to learn according to their natural instincts — are being misdiagnosed and given unnecessary drugs.

For more information on increasing the learning potential and confidence of children, call Kolbe Corp at 1-800-642-2822.

"I truly believe this system needs to be an integral basis for all aspects of education. I will not continue teaching if I cannot use the Kolbe method in my job."

Mickey Anderson
Washington School District



"By providing clear and practical applications, Kathy Kolbe helps us understand how we can communicate more effectively both interpersonally and professionally."

Elizabeth Berry
Ph.D. Professor of Communications
California State University, Northridge



"I have just finished a review of your work on Conation and continue to be enthusiastic, even amazed, at its basic simplicity and far-reaching implications for personnel and management productivity. In my 30 years of experience with all levels and forms of education, public and private, pre-collegiate and collegiate, vocational and classical, I have run into little which combines the elements of originality and validity. Conation meets that dual challenge."

Ralph Bohrson
former Program Manager
Ford Foundation



"By focusing on the way people behave, rather than how they think or feel, Kathy Kolbe offers a simple yet powerful tool for self-exploration. Our students have learned more about themselves and about teamwork using the Kolbe A™ Index."

Harry Davis
Ph.D., Deputy Dean
Graduate Business School, University of Chicago



"I only wish that I could ask everyone I encounter to become a Kolbe card-carrier; I would make fewer mistakes when forming faculty workgroups."

Cynthia Desrochers
CELT Director
California State University Northridge



"The inevitable outcome of reading this book is the desire to share its wisdom with colleagues and friends. This is a 'must read' for leaders desirous of obtaining maximum productivity, quality, and creativity."

Forrest Gale, Ph.D.
Professor of Engineering Management
Defense Systems Management College



"I never felt that my personal gifts were validated until this CEO appointment. But if someone had told me four years ago I'd be here now, I would have laughed. It wasn't a career track I was on."

Judeth Javorek
CEO
Holland Michigan Community College



"Managers have been using this technique intuitively but now they actually have a quantity to measure- that can really demonstrate and prove how to best structure teams and how people will work and won't work."

Robert Keim, Ph.D.
Director, Division of Information Management
and Systems Technology, Arizona State University



"... used the Kolbe Wisdom™ to select and place team members, which resulted in such a high performance division that the Board was astonished by the amount of productivity. We used Kolbe to assess instinctive strengths, and freed people to work according to those innate abilities."

Marilyn Kourilsky, Ph.D.
Vice President Kaufman Foundation
University of California at Los Angeles



"Kathy Kolbe's detailed examples, so rich, so vivid, so meaningful, so illustrative. The possibilities are endless. I'll build better teams."

Hank Laskey, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Bloomsburg University



"Having the on-going personal attention of Kathy Kolbe conducting the Kolbe Certification™ Training increased (my) confidence professionally regarding my abilities as well as being able to identify the sources of my recent stress. It would be extremely beneficial as part of the informational core requirements of my current doctoral program."

Monique Lewis
Occidental College



"Kathy Kolbe has done for business what Timothy Gallwey did for tennis. She has provided remarkable insights for helping each of us understand how we play our inner game."

Richard Mason, Ph.D.
Carr P. Collins Distinguished Professor
Southern Methodist University



"Professionally I anticipate working with students, educators and business in a totally new way-including research. Personally, this is a new and exciting tool! The facet of knowledge provided psychologically is invaluable."

James Mullarkey
Waukesha County Technical College



"Kathy Kolbe's Kolbe A™ Index is a powerful tool to aid us in understanding and overcoming the struggles that emerge when we cannot achieve unity between what we do and who we are. The implications for its use in researching the psychology of meaning and character formation are vast."

Morrie Olsen, Ph.D.
Clinical Research Coordinator
Treatment Research Center
University of Pennsylvania



"Kathy Kolbe has created a book that is a godsend to managers trying to pull together the human resources needed to get their jobs done. This is one of the most useful and best books of the year."

Jerry Porras Ph.D.
Professor Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Co-Author of Built to Last



"We have been persuaded by the data, that we have available an instrument that is not only minority bias free but an instrument, which may under the 1991 law be one of the few instruments available which is bias free and a consequence, is a viable and important instrument for anyone involved in the selection process to consider."

Ryan Thomas, Ph.D.
Brigham Young University



"I had been in education for 30 years and for all those years I kept feeling 'Why am I such an odd duck?' Once I got into Kolbe, I understood why I always felt out of step and I thought it's not that I'm such an odd duck, it's just that I have a different sort of talents. Once I understood, I then had a language to express it to my school board and fellow administrators. It helped me in delegating tasks. What it's taught me is that everybody's different and we need to use teaching techniques that allow every kid in the classroom to use their natural talents. The validation is just terrific."

Mark Yehle, Ph.D.
Superintendent






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Helping Kids Thrive Among our many examples

Last year my 10 year old son, Ross (5278), was flunking the 3rd grade. He was upset every day and hated school. After consulting with Kathy Kolbe one-on-one, and taking the Perfectly Capable Kids course, I gave him strategies to help him in the classroom...

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Think-ercises!

Think-ercises! build on natural talents. They reinforce individuals' sense of worth because they help explore, experiment, investigate, and solve in ways that work for them. People of all MOs enjoy the intellectual growth that comes from Think-ercising because Think-ercises! make people feel good about themselves. They are published by Resources for the Gifted, a division of Kolbe Corp.

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