About the Author

Darshan Khalsa is a Baby Boomer who during the mid-1960's worked as a computer programmer on the NASA Apollo Project to help put man on the moon. Then he lived for a time in a cabin atop a hill in the California Sierras in a spiritual quest to discover his mission in life. It was there he was first introduced to yoga and he resolved to learn how to teach it and share it with the world.

Khalsa has lived in Phoenix, Arizona since 1972 when he arrived to take a Kundalini Yoga teacher's training course. Here he began a lifelong journey of balancing a successful corporate business career while continuing to teach Kundalini Yoga in the Valley of the Sun.

After writing screenplays for an independent Hollywood producer, in 1976 Khalsa became employee #3 at a small retail computer company in Tempe, Arizona that over the next twenty-four years grew to become MicroAge, a $6 billion Fortune 500 computer company with over 5,000 employees. His experiences there as a manager and project leader working with small businesses, medium-size businesses and large global corporations ("my 20th Century career") are the basis for the anecdotes and techniques shared in his book Yoga Secrets for Business Success published in 2002 by The Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe-Pequot Press.

For many years, Khalsa developed methods and selling tools for computer salespeople to sell value-added products and services to small business, medium and large corporate accounts. He trained thousands of salespeople, support staff and managers in North America, Europe and Japan to standardize how complete solutions were marketed, presented and delivered to clients in diverse industries.

During the last decade, Khalsa has provided consulting services such as strategic planning, team building and problem solving, conflict resolution, project management, business process reengineering, and Internet electronic commerce development for some of the world's largest corporations, including Carlson Companies, Citibank, Halliburton, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Kodak, Phillips Petroleum, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Southwestern Bell and Wells Fargo Bank.

Khalsa began his 21st Century career by founding Transition Stress Management, Inc., an Arizona corporation, in 1999 to provide business innovation consulting, stress management services and personal coaching for organizations of all sizes through a global service delivery network. He developed the Balanced Group Thinking service (a unique combination of yoga plus storyboarding for effective group decision making) out of his corporate consulting and yogic experience, and applied for a U.S. patent on the process.

Khalsa is an internationally certified Kundalini Yoga and meditation teacher with thirty-two years teaching experience under the direction of Yogi Bhajan, Master of Kundalini Yoga. Khalsa is a registered professional member of the International Kundalini Yoga Teachers Association, the International Yoga Association, the Yoga Alliance and the Arizona Yoga Association, and is a master storyboarder mentored by Jim Norman of the Creative Planning Center of Phoenix, Arizona. He received the Storyboarder of the Year Award in 2001. He is a graduate of Michigan State University and a member of the Society for Human Resource Management.

Khalsa is the author of numerous books and developer of the Transition Stress Management corporate courseware comprising over one hundred sequenced Kundalini Yoga classes to optimize participants' health, nerve stamina, emotional well being and expanded consciousness. He recently completed courseware in stress management survival techniques for the frequent traveler and for managing crisis situations.

Through public lectures, corporate consulting and personal guidance, Khalsa provides inspiration to all who seek to achieve a better balance between life and work.

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