April 4, 2001 – On the surface, the workplace may seem an unlikely place for spirituality to thrive. But infusing spiritually driven values such as respect, equality, and trust into business performance is the key to survival in the competitive corporate world, according to human resources consultant and author Dr. William A. Guillory.

The University of Utah Office of Professional Education will feature Guillory in a one-day workshop, "Spirituality in the Workplace: Achieving Work-Life Quality and Balance," Friday, April 27, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Marriott Library Gould Auditorium. The workshop is cosponsored by the Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center.

Participants will learn how to approach professional challenges by balancing their career with personally established spiritual values. "Work life has become so demanding, fast-paced, stressful, ambiguous, and chaotic that we are forced to seek values-based answers and ways of achieving personal stability from within," Guillory says. "We have come to realize that our inner wisdom is the major source that will sustain our adaptation and stability in the long run."

Founder of the Salt Lake City-based consulting firm Innovations International, Guillory has presented stimulating seminars to companies throughout the U.S., from American Airlines to Kellogg, Proctor & Gamble, and Hewlett Packard. Locally, he has worked with Convergys, American Express, Web Miles, and ASTD.

Guillory's workshop demonstrates practical ways people can adapt to new workplace demands, transform their point-of-view from one of entitlement to empowerment, and shift from feelings of pitted competition to cooperation and win/win.

" In order to compensate for the loss of job security and the continuing need for high-performing employees, today's productive or profitable workplaces require organizational structures that integrate humanistic core values with core business policies, decisions, functions, and behaviors; in essence cultures that support the physical, mental and spiritual well-being of its employees," says Guillory.
Prior to founding his consulting firm, he served as Chair of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Utah. His most recent book is The Living Organization-Spirituality in the Workplace.

Cost for the one-day "Spirituality in the Workplace" workshop is only $89. For more information and to register, visit www.proed.utah.edu, or call the University of Utah Office of Professional Education: (801) 585-1780.

Note to the media: To set up an interview with William Guillory, call Lila Davis at (801) 487-6750.