Editing Werner Erhard (section)

=== Subsequent work ===
During the 1990s, Erhard lectured and led programs in various locations, including Russia, Japan, and Ireland. He had a three-year contract to give courses to Soviet managers that would allow Soviet officials to study his teaching methods.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Greenberger |first=Robert |date=December 3, 1986 |title=East meets Est: The Soviets discover Werner Erhard |journal=The Wall Street Journal |quote=Mr. Erhard gave a five-day course to about 60 Soviet managers in the workers' state, his first seminar under a three-year contract that also will allow Soviet officials to study his teaching methods in the U.S. |via=}}</ref> He consulted for both businesses and government agencies in Russia.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Haldeman |first=Peter |date=November 28, 2015 |title=The Return of Werner Erhard, Father of Self-Help |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/fashion/the-return-of-werner-erhard-father-of-self-help.html |work=The New York Times |quote=Mr. Erhard consulted for businesses and government agencies like the Russian adult-education program the Znaniye Society and a nonprofit organization supporting clergy in Ireland. |archive-date=June 7, 2023 |access-date=April 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230607001506/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/fashion/the-return-of-werner-erhard-father-of-self-help.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Kellaway |first=Lucy |date=April 22, 2021 |title=Lunch With The FT: Werner Erhard |url=https://www.ft.com/content/feb214a8-8f88-11e1-98b1-00144feab49a |quote=Erhard tells me that paramilitaries in Northern Ireland had a bit of trouble too, but when they did get it they disarmed as a result. He also worked with members of the first Russian parliament in 1993. |archive-date=September 26, 2024 |access-date=September 26, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240926131644/https://www.ft.com/content/feb214a8-8f88-11e1-98b1-00144feab49a |url-status=live }}</ref> In the early 1990s he conducted seminars in Japan for professionals coping with their financial crisis.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Haldeman |first=Peter |date=November 28, 2015 |title=The Return of Werner Erhard, Father of Self-Help |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/fashion/the-return-of-werner-erhard-father-of-self-help.html |quote=he conducted seminars for professionals coping with Japan’s financial crisis of the early 1990s. |archive-date=June 7, 2023 |access-date=April 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230607001506/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/fashion/the-return-of-werner-erhard-father-of-self-help.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1999, Erhard and Peter Block worked with a nonprofit organization for clergy and grassroots leaders to come up with new ways to deal with the peace process in Ireland.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Locke |first=Bill |date=January 31, 2018 |title=A Conversation with Peter Block |url=https://www.kolbetimes.com/peter-block/ |work=Kolbe Times |quote=In 1999, he and Werner Erhard developed The Ireland Initiative, working with clergy and grassroots leaders to develop new thinking and new conversations. |archive-date=September 30, 2023 |access-date=April 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230930142545/https://www.kolbetimes.com/peter-block/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Erhard and Michael C. Jensen, Professor of Business Administration emeritus, led seminars and training sessions at Harvard.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Leeson |first=Robert |title=Hayek, A Collaborative Biography |date=May 14, 2013 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-0230301122 |quote=Erhard organized and led Harvard seminars and training sessions in association with Michael Jensen, Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard Business School}}</ref> They also explored the relationship between integrity and performance in a paper published at Harvard Business School.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kerr |first=James |title=Legacy |date=December 17, 2013 |publisher=Constable & Robinson |isbn=978-1472103536 |quote=In a paper published at Harvard Business School, Michael C. Jensen, Werner Erhard, and Steve Zaffron explore the relationship between integrity and performance.}}</ref>

Erhard and Jensen developed and led a course on leadership<ref name=":2">{{Cite news |last=Haldeman |first=Peter |date=November 28, 2015 |title=The Return of Werner Erhard, Father of Self-Help |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/fashion/the-return-of-werner-erhard-father-of-self-help.html |work=The New York Times |quote=Dr. Jensen developed an experiential course on integrity in leadership at the Simon Business School at the University of Rochester. The class was offered there for five years, with Mr. Erhard signing on as an instructor during its third year. It has since been taught at several universities around the world as well as at the United States Air Force Academy. |archive-date=June 7, 2023 |access-date=April 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230607001506/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/fashion/the-return-of-werner-erhard-father-of-self-help.html |url-status=live }}</ref> that took an experience-based, rather than knowledge-based, approach to leadership. Students were asked to master integrity and authenticity, among other principles, so that they could leave the class as leaders rather than merely learning about leadership.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Haldeman |first=Peter |date=November 28, 2015 |title=The Return of Werner Erhard, Father of Self-Help |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/fashion/the-return-of-werner-erhard-father-of-self-help.html |work=The New York Times |quote=Briefly, the course, which owes ideological debts to the Forum and to the German philosopher Martin Heidegger, takes an experience-based, rather than knowledge-based, approach to its subject. Students master principles like integrity and authenticity in order to leave the class acting as leaders instead of merely knowing about leadership. |archive-date=June 7, 2023 |access-date=April 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230607001506/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/fashion/the-return-of-werner-erhard-father-of-self-help.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The course has been taught at several universities worldwide as well as at the [[United States Air Force Academy]].<ref name=":2" />