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'''August "Gus" Jaccaci''' works with leaders throughout the world who want to
envision and build an ideal future for
themselves and their enterprises. He is a
gifted speaker, a respected visionary and
one of the world's foremost social
inventors. Gus is co-author of the
recently published book, Chief
Evolutionary Officer - Leaders Mapping
the Future, and author of General Periodicity: Nature's Creative
Dynamics. He talks to audiences across the globe about nature's
patterns of growth and transformation and now those patterns can be
applied to the successful evolution of any business or venture. He is
listed in Who's Who in America 2004 and Who's Who in the World
2005.
==Education==
St. Paul's School, University of Colorado, Harvard College (BA in
English, 1960, Harvard Graduate School of Education (MAT, 1964),
and the Rhode Island School of Design (MFA in Painting, 1965), the
only person in the school's history to gain the MFA without first
attaining a Bachelor of Fine Arts.

==Professional Experience==
Jaccaci has been a respected educator and educational administrator
for over 30 years. He has served as:
Teacher and coach at Rutland High School, Lawrence Academy,
Burke Mountain Academy and Phillips Academy (Andover)
where his role was education innovator, designer and admini-
strator.
Arts Assistant to the President of Boston College. During his
time there, Jaccaci created and chaired two new departments:
the Film and Video Study Program and Special Curricula
Programs.
An Assistant Dean of Admissions at Harvard College and an
admissions officer at the Rhode Island School of Design.
a faculty colleague and group leader at the Creative Problem
Solving Institute in Buffalo, New York for 32 years.
guest lecturer at Stanford Business School.

==Consulting==
Jaccaci has consulted in long-range planning and visioning with U.S.
and foreign corporations including:
Motorola, Fannie Mae, Pillsbury, AT&T, P.W. Minor, Micrometer,
Chase Manhattan Bank, J.C. Penney, Polaroid, Vermont Agency of
Human Services, Arthur Anderson, Xerox, and Volunteer Hospital
Association of America; in Canada, Toronto Dominion Bank and
Northern Telecom; and in Europe, IMD, Credit Suisse, and British
Petroleum.

==Keynote Speeches==
Jaccaci has delivered keynote speeches throughout the United States
and Europe. Examples include:
Businesses for Social Responsibility
World Future Society
Northern Telecom World Design Meeting
European Organization Transformation Association in Switzerland
Findhorn annual convocation in Scotland
New England Art Teachers Association Lincoln Center
Celebration
International Hispanic Association at Xerox
Micrometer annual convention

==Publications in magazines and journals==
Executive Excellence; Training and Development Journal of the
American Society of Training and Development; the Newsletter for
Transformational Management and others. He serves on the editorial
board of the international journal, The Learning Organization, based in
England. He has published two books and is currently writing or
co-authoring two more dealing with his lifetime of work in Systems
Science, social architecture and a new cosmology for the 21st
century. Jaccaci is listed in the Marquis Who's Who in America for
2004 and 2005 and Who's Who in the World 2005.

==World-renowned colleagues==
Jaccaci has worked with world-renowned luminaries including:
Margaret Mead during the last three years of her life in the
creation of natural organic general systems models.
Buckminster Fuller in the offering of the second World Game
at Boston College and delivery of a world congress in Florence,
Italy.
Barbara Hubbard in the design and delivery of the future portion
which opened the U.S. Bicentennial Celebration.

==Social Architecture Events==
Jaccaci has developed his concepts of social architecture and skills in
its practice as a designer, host and leader in:
Second World Game Workshop with Buckminster Fuller (1970)
13-Dimensional Conference on the Future of Television at the
WGBH experimental Studio (1974)
"Town Meeting on the Year 2000", a live two-day future-
oriented opening of the U.S. Bicentennial broadcast on WGBH
Channel 2 (April 1975)
First World Congress of the New Age at Fort Belvedere in
Florence, Italy (1978) and the Florence Convocation (1987)
The Forum on the Valley Future, a regional planning conference
for 52 Vermont and New Hampshire towns sponsored by the
Montshire Science Museum (1982)
"Visionary Vermont", a three-day state future fair held at the
University of Vermont at the Burlington campus, October 11-14,
2001
Planet Planning Ithaca, a future fair held in Ithaca, NY, June,
2002
First Creativity Commission enacted by law in the United
States in Buffalo, NY (2002)

==Current Activities==
Working with Richard Spady at the Forum Foundation and the
Stuart C. Dodd Institute of Seattle, Washington to introduce
symbolic dialogue to groups across the United States and to
apply his principles of social architecture to "civilization
building" in major American cities.
Appearing at Future Fairs and other events as Thomas Jefferson
speaking from the year 2040 to congratulate audiences on their
evolutionary accomplishments.

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