Genie Z. Laborde
American writer
Genie Zylks Laborde (February 19, 1928 – January 14, 2023) was an American author, educator, video producer, and artist. She was the founder and CEO of International Dialogue Education Associates, Inc., a business seminar company based in Palo Alto, California. Laborde authored several business communication and negotiation books and designed the three-day business seminar “Influencing with Integrity”.
Biography
Laborde’s doctoral degree was from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Her major discipline was Confluent Education, which is Gestalt psychology applied to the educational process. The Confluent Education program was founded by a Ford Foundation Grant for Innovative Education. Laborde’s Master of Arts degree in Creative Writing was conferred by Tulane University, and her Bachelor of Arts in Design and Fine Art was earned at Louisiana State University.
Ladorde died on January 14, 2023, at the age of 94.
Influences
Interested by the new esoteric classes offered at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California which formed a key part of the Human Potential Movement of the 1960s, during the 1970s she studied with many of the leaders of this movement including George Leonard, Alan Watts, George I. Brown, Gay Luce, Frank Barron, Buckminster Fuller, Joseph Campbell, Joseph Downing, Barbara Brennan, and received Arica Training.
Career
In 1984, Laborde published the communication and negotiation book Influencing with Integrity: Management Skills for Communication and Negotiation, which sold over 151,000 copies and was translated into several languages.
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