IMPOTANT NOTE THE GUEST IS ASSOCIATED WITH : SELF-REVEALIZATION ACCEPTANCE not another association whihc mistakenly was included in parts of the program. I appologize. for my error.. Harold Channer ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Hanshi Stephen F. Kaufman A Brief Biography Stephen Kaufman delivers value. An authority on strategy and motivation, he empowers audiences to turn every challenge: business, personal, and military, into opportunity by demonstrating definitive working models and techniques that assure advantageous results. Recognized as a master speaker and symposium leader, he conducts business management and motivation seminars and is widely sought out by major institutions and global groups. He is considered one of the more functional and productive strategy facilitators on the contemporary circuit.Continually striving to learn more of the budo arts, Hanshi practices daily: karate, weaponry, and iaido with a select group of "shosei" students. He teaches self-defense to many national security agencies, senior citizen groups, community centers, corporations, and private clients. Hanshi Kaufman has enjoyed an extensive career in the martial arts world since the 1950's. An acknowledged "founding father" of American Karate, he is, along with his rank and title of Hanshi, a 10th dan Shodai soke, 1st generation founder of Dojo no Hebi-School of the Snake (Hebi-Ryu Budo) considered by many international grandmasters to be one of the most formidable and realistic martialist methods in the world. The title of Hanshi was given to Kaufman in 1993. He is the author of 37 books and is published by Tuttle, Paladin, McGraw-Hill and his own Hanshi Warrior Press. His works include the world-famous versions of Musashi's Book of Five Rings, Sun Tzu's Art of War, The Shogun's Scroll, The Living Tao, Sword in the Boardroom, Self-Revealization Acceptance, Practicing Self-Revealization Acceptance,Taikido Life-Force Energy Healing, The Art of Stickfighting, Cherry Blossoms for Children, and the coveted novels, The Hanshi of Central Park and The Hanshi in Brussels. He continues to write, teach, travel, and study.