Drawing on his experience as the protégé of the man who founded the IBM Executive School, 13 years working alongside the Trappist monks of Mepkin Abbey, and over 30 years of business experience, Turak offers the power to transform your business and your life.

Often described as a “worldly monk,” Turak combines the hard-edged discipline of a bottom-line leader with a passionate commitment to putting people first. With humor, sincerity, and straight talk, he uses dozens of real life examples drawn from his own remarkable career to argue for an ancient yet emergent economic model that he calls Service and Selflessness. This model invites us to transcend our entrenched notions that profit and selfless service are intrinsically incompatible. Through example after example, Turak continually reminds us that we are surrounded by heroic organizations and individuals like the Trappists monks and Warren Buffet who are wildly successful not despite their passionate commitment to the highest ideals but because of them.

A charismatic and highly sought out speaker and seminar leader, Turak was awarded a Coolidge Fellowship from CrossCurrents magazine, won the Grand Prize for his Brother John essay in the John Templeton Foundation’s Power of Purpose Essay Contest, and most recently published Business Secrets of the Trappists in Forbes.com. This four part series topped the charts as Forbes’ most highly rated article, and Mr. Turak is now working on expanding the article into a book.

In 1993 Turak founded Raleigh Group International (RGI) and later Elsinore Technologies. In 2000 RGI was sold to privately held Mutek Inc.- later renamed Identify Software. In 2006 Identify was purchased by BMC Software headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Turak has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Selling Magazine, The New York Times, Forbes.com, BusinessWeek and in various other publications and media.