Ron Zeller
Ron Zeller is the creator and co-presenter of 'Winning The Second Half'. His primary career focus has been the exploration, study and practice of educational disciplines that concentrate on the nature and possibilities of breakthroughs in human development.
During his early career, Ron taught geology at Brigham Young University in Utah and worked as a Research Engineer at the University of California in Berkeley. He taught Junior and Senior High School, and was a School Counselor and Educational Psychologist before becoming a high school Principal. Ron has been credentialed as a Superintendent of Schools in California as well as a lifetime Junior College Instructor.
Over the past thirty years, Ron has studied successful educational models around the world. As part of his commitment to be at the cutting-edge of human development, Ron worked in Educational Research at the Behavioral Sciences Foundation in Carmel, California. He studied education through consciousness raising with Paulo Freire in Guinea-Bissau, Africa, as well as Vocational Schooling at Gandhi's Schools in India.
As a recognized, master life-coach and business consultant, Ron has shaped the transformations of CEOs, sports and movie stars, foreign dignitaries, prisoners, gang members and individuals from virtually all cultures and all walks of life. He has directed programs for Youth at Risk, Business Productivity, the Psychology of Human Potential and the Acceleration of Human Learning. In 1992 he worked with the Soviet Educational Society in Moscow, coaching leaders in how to produce results in the face of extreme social reorganization. He has personally trained more than 250,000 people in over 20 counties.
Ron is a highly regarded leader in the development and presentation of specialized training programs in Communication. In this domain, and for the last 25 years, he has created and continues to lead life-development programs for Landmark Education. As a Partner and Senior Consultant in the firm of Mark Kamin and Associates, Ron consults at an international level, coaching executives and entrepreneurs in strategic planning, environmental design and the transforming of corporate cultures.
He has been especially interested in what it takes to produce impossible results in life.
In 1992, Ron was diagnosed with an aggressive, terminal cancer. Using the principles he teaches in Winning The Second Half, he was able to avoid surgery and traditional treatment, rid his body of the ailment and elevate himself to new levels of health, fitness and vitality.
At 64 years of age, and as a further expression of his commitment to achieving the impossible, Ron decided to become a champion in extraordinary physical disciplines. With no prior experience, other than his passion for taking on impossible projects, Ron ran and won First Place in his division of the 100-mile Wasatch Endurance Race over the mountains of Utah. He has subsequently completed numerous long-distance endurance runs, including the Grand Canyon, Machu Pichu in Peru, and the Annapurna Ranges in the Himalayan Mountains.
In 2004, Ron took up power lifting and by 2006, had won the U.S. National Championship in his weight and age division. Ron has now broken three, U.S. National Men's Records and is currently competing in the 2006 World Championship Competition with an intention to break all existing World Records in his division.
