Marshall Thurber is an educator, scholar, businessman, inventor, attorney, real estate developer, editor, author, and visionary.

In the 1970’s, along with two partners, Marshall started Hawthorne/Stone and built it into highly successful real estate firm in California. Using innovative ‘win-win’ business theories and methods developed by Marshall, his company restored over 150 Victorian homes in San Francisco.

Following his success in real estate, Marshall co-founded the Burklyn Business School in Vermont. The school was designed to teach the global principles of cooperation and abundance he learned from Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller and the contextual principles of the human potential movement. The unique teaching methods employed at Burklyn included Superlearning Technologies™. These balanced brain simulations were designed by Marshall to create powerful learning experiences. One of his popular sayings is - “A truth believed is only a belief. A truth experienced is truth.”

Experiences Marshall has created include:

• Money & You
• Success Secrets of the 21st Century
• The Future of Business: The Essence of Deming
• The Leadership Development Training Program
• The Positive Deviant Network
• The Burklyn: School for Business Comprehensivists
• Abundanets Training
• The Accounting Game (granted a US Patent)
• How to Think About What's Worth Thinking About
• The Secrets of Powerful Presentations
• How to Make Change Your Ally

Thousands of individuals worldwide have attended these experiences and actively use “Thurber Techniques” in their daily lives and businesses.

A list of his students includes such success stories as Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen of Chicken Soup for the Soul fame, the founder and creator of Paul Mitchell hair products, Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, Spencer Johnson, author of Who Moved My Cheese, Tony Robbins, Harv Eker, and Robert Kiyosaki (author of Rich Dad Poor Dad).

In his private consulting business, Marshall has consulted for high profile clients that include: ITT Industries, Sheraton Hotels, The US Navy, Ernst & Young, Panavision, Neill Corporation, Hewlett Packard, GTE, The Neenan Company, Systems West, Bentley Management Corp., Liberty Helicopters, Columbia Artists Management Inc., Mendocino Forest Products, and Chicken Soup for the Soul Books. Mr. Thurber received his undergraduate degree from Union College, and his law degree from Hastings College of Law, University of California. He was a founding partner of the Fisher Thurber law firm and serves as Of Counsel to the Firm, specializing in business management practices.

His many honors include the "Cohen H. Kerr Award" for highest academic achievement in an undergraduate class at Boston University; Boston University's "Utopia Award"; Union College's Gold Key Award for outstanding service to the school; the "Maud Glover Folsom Foundation Award" given to one individual each year in the United States; and a State of Hawaii Senate Resolution specifically acknowledging Mr. Thurber's "outstanding contribution to furthering overall human success."

Marshall’s most recent work is a new program called The Success Secrets for the 21st Century. This course combines his experience from the past 30 years of living Buckminster Fuller’s generalized principles with his new research in the concepts of network science and positive deviancy.

Marshall has also assembled a group of successful entrepreneurs, business leaders, philanthropists, and other positive deviants in his yearlong program called The Positive Deviant Network. In this program the members work with each other to put into practice the theories learned in Success Secrets and support each other in developing solutions for transformational change.