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Landmark Education is a company that sells self improvement style education courses. There is much controversy surrounding the company; Many people say they benefit enormously from the courses, but many others accuse it of being a cult.

Landmark Education Company Overview

Landmark Education is a global educational enterprise committed to the fundamental principle that people have the possibility of success, fulfillment, and greatness. Recently named one of the top training and development companies in the world by HR.com, Landmark offers programs that are innovative, effective, and immediately relevant. The ideas, insights, and distinctions on which their technology is based, and the exceptional results people produce from participating in their programs have made Landmark a leader and innovator in the field of training and development.

The work of Landmark Education is the product of extensive research and development in individual and organizational effectiveness and communication. Landmark uses its leading-edge educational methodology to enable people to produce extraordinary results and enhance the quality of their lives.

Time magazine noted that Landmark Education is quickly "becoming a global brand name." Headquartered in San Francisco, Landmark now offers programs in more than 100 cities via 60 major offices worldwide. In addition, Landmark Education Business Development, a wholly owned subsidiary, offers corporate consulting internationally. Hundreds of thousands of people on five continents have participated in Landmark's programs.

Landmark Education and its subsidiaries hold memberships in the following professional associations and organizations:

• American Society for Training and Development,
• International Society for Performance Improvement,
• American Management Association, and
• Academy of Management.

Landmark Education offers programs and curricula through 60 offices and 21 countries world wide with its core program The Landmark Forum. It is an employee-owned company with 750 professionally trained course leaders worldwide, Landmark is strongly motivated to provide the best educational experience for the more than 125,000 people that participate in its courses each year.

Educational Methodology

The ideas and distinctions on which Landmark Education’s methodology is based, and the results it has produced, make Landmark a leader and innovator in the field of training and development. Landmark’s technology is drawn from a rich tradition of thinking and research that spans a number of disciplines such as philosophy, anthropology, linguistics, and cognitive science. Landmark Education continues to evolve and develop its unique educational methodology. Similar to riding a bicycle, in Landmark’s programs you learn by direct personal discovery – a moment occurs when a new ability is yours. You become confident in what you’ve learned, and the new ability is yours forever.

The Landmark method is more like coaching than teaching; more like conversation than lecture. While conventional education methods focus on content (adding facts, rules, or skills to our knowledge), the Landmark method deals with context – the framework(s) in which content can exist.

What People Say Who take Landmark Programs

“Landmark is an amazing organization for successful people. This organization, like no other organization I know, really can make a difference in peoples’ lives and in the lives of companies. They deliver what they say they can deliver and are totally dedicated to that.”
- Michael C. Jensen, Professor Emeritus, Harvard Business School

“For anybody who wants the best life they can possibly have, for anybody who wants to make the biggest difference in this lifetime that they can possibly make, for anybody who does not want to miss one breath of opportunity, then I would tell them that they should take the Landmark Forum.”
- Geraldine Newman, President, Geraldine Newman Communications

“It’s an empowering adventure. Something that frees you up…to experience the relationships you have, to communicate better, to deal with your boss, your family, your friends. It’s just an opportunity of a lifetime.”
- Paul B. Fireman, Chairman & CEO, Reebok International, LTD

“I have a life that I love, and I live it powerfully. And that’s what Landmark provides.”
- Linda G. Howard, Attorney, New York City Law Department

“As a psychiatrist, it’s very apparent that Landmark Education is offering a very extraordinary level of training and is committed to producing breakthrough results.”
- Dr. Vijay Nair, Psychiatrist & Epidemiologist

“As a person whose life is about global issues, I can’t think of a more effective training program available to people in the world than Landmark Forum. One of the greatest values for myself is the ability to deal with intractable global problems without getting discouraged and fully resigned. Individuals, as a result of participating in the Landmark Forum, discover a commitment and then go out into the world and make it happen.”
- Dr. Charlie McNeil, Team Manager, Environmental Programme, United Nations Development Programme

“The programs and courses offered at Landmark Education are extraordinary. No matter what you do for a living, whether you’re a scientist, a physician, whether you’re considering buying a home, or you’re raising a family, this education provides a profound and lasting impact on your life.”
- Dr. Bert Petersen, Jr., Assistant Professor of Surgery, Beth Israel Medical Center, Albert Einstein School of Medicine

External Sites

• Landmark Education
• The Landmark Forum