Q: What is "Regenesis?"
A: Regenesis is a proven program for improving communication, morale, productivity and performance in corporations -- in short, for maximizing the effectiveness of human resources. "Regenesis" refers to the fact that participating companies are "recreated" and revitalized by applying the program's tools, techniques and strategies.

Regenesis is based on the word "psycho-genesis," a term coined in 1812 which Webster's defines as "the study of the origin of traits, attitudes and states of mind." Psycho-Regenesis is the restructuring of traits, attitudes and states of mind.

Q: You said "proven?" Proven by whom? How?
A: Regenesis was developed after extensive research and field testing -- more than 11 years of such endeavor, to be exact. Its creator, Lance Lager, saw the principles behind Regenesis work again and again in training thousands of people to be more successful in business -- and in their personal lives, too.

Lance proved the success of Regenesis in the toughest "laboratory" in the world: corporate board rooms where bottom-line results speak louder than promises or excuses. He produced measurable results and has a very extensive file of testimonials to prove it.

Q: What is the main principle or thought behind Regenesis -- that is, if you had to sum it up in a sentence or two?
A: According to Regenesis, unconscious programming plays an important role in the success or failure of a company and its employees. The same unconscious, unresolved conflicts that people play out in their marriages and individual relationships, they also play out at work. Regenesis helps people to identify -- and overcome -- these unresolved life dramas, which often sabotage individual success and limit productivity and profitability.

Q: Unresolved conflicts? What do you mean?
A: Many of these unresolved conflicts go far back in our development, and pick up steam as we move into adulthood. Or, put another way: behavioral patterns internalized on an unconscious level in early childhood often trap us in a vicious, repetitive cycle of self-destructive behavior stemming from negative emotions, such as anxiety, shame, guilt, fear, anger and low self-esteem. Regenesis helps to untangle the mess and gets people acting more effectively and responsibly by gaining control over negative emotions and self-sabotaging behaviors.

Q: So people in business are, what? Acting like kids and messing things up for themselves?
A: Yes. You see it all the time. Why, I'll bet you know someone who's basically a nice person, but who keeps shooting himself in the foot. If he were able to modify his self-destructive behaviors, he would be on the road to riches and glory. Unfortunately, he can't see what he's doing. What's equally unfortunate is that this person is also hurting his company by adversely affecting productivity and profitability.

Yet we all have these little problems. No one is exempt or immune... including CEOs and VPs.

Often, self-destructive behavior surfaces after we've achieved our greatest successes. If it were possible to identify these behaviors, then work toward their eradication -- or at least their constructive modification -- individuals could be more successful personally, and their organizations could profit as well. That, in a nutshell, is what Regenesis seeks to achieve...more success for everyone.

Q: What, in your opinion, is one of the biggest advantages of participation in the Regenesis program?
A: Excellence through stronger management and teamwork, pure and simple. After participating in Regenesis, a company's management team begins reading off the same scorecard...working from the same shooting script. All of the players become more focused, more purposeful in their behaviors, more committed to results. And the beautiful thing is, they're working together -- truly working together -- for maybe the first time. It doesn't take an MBA from the Wharton or Harvard Business School to know that teamwork can go a long, long way toward enabling companies to reach their goals...and exceed them.

Yet, let's face it, crises and conflicts are the daily modus operandi at many companies. These conflicts merely create stress, negative feelings, and fear...and prevent individuals from reaching their full stride. These conflicts certainly don't put more money in the bank at the end of the day. With Regenesis, you eliminate these unconscious-based conflicts and replace them with greater productivity and profits.

Q: What, in your opinion, distinguishes Lance Lager from other motivational speakers who come into companies, get people all charged up, and claim they're going to make a difference on the bottom line?
A: Actually, while Lance's presentations do have a motivating and uplifting effect, he isn't a so-called "motivational" speaker at all. The trouble with motivational speakers, of course, is that they get everyone "pumped up" and "psyched" with expectations during their presentations and maybe for a short time afterward.

But the effects aren't lasting: the next day it's business as usual except that maybe employees talk about the "stimulating" seminar they attended. A couple of days later, however, the company and its employees are back to square one. Sound familiar?

Lance Lager, by contrast, offers companies proven, practical tools that can be used on an ongoing basis throughout the entire company.

The point is this: it's one thing to raise a company's expectations, and quite another thing to give a company the tools it needs to meet these expectations. Motivational speakers may provide helpful insights, but they don't go the distance. Lance Lager does. He opens more than eyes...he opens doors.

Q: How long does it take for Regenesis to start producing results?
A: Changes for the better can start immediately, often after one training day. And, provided that companies follow and consistently apply the techniques described in the course workbook and audio cassette tape program, these positive effects will gain momentum and build over time.