Dr. Gordon C. Watanabe, a founding partner of Personal Leadership Seminars, consults in corporate, educational, and other organizational settings (most recently the Esalen Institute) on Personal Leadership, diversity, and intercultural competence.  He is Professor Emeritus and former special assistant to the president for intercultural relations at Whitworth University where he focuses on the role of deep self-understanding in successful cross-cultural negotiations and intercultural team-building. Gordon was initiated as a meditation teacher in 2000, and now also offers energy meditation seminars. He has taught middle school biology and teacher education, and advised and counseled university-level international, study abroad, and minority students.