Lawrence S. Bale
101 Elmwood Avenue
Narberth, PA 19072-2409

(610) 664-0585 e-mail: bale@pil.net


Summary:
Enterprising leader with excellent communications abilities, both written and oral. Team player accomplished at creative problem solving and issue resolution. Strong presentations skills developed in Public Sector as author, lecturer and teacher. Dynamic analytical and organizational skills, with solid experience in Information Technology. Will facilitate increased communication, motivate team to accomplish goals, and to think beyond established boundaries.
Professional Background:
HNS Hermes, Narberth, PA
Founder / Internet Consultant – Website Design 		1998 –
Responsibilities have included design, construction, production and maintenance of Internet-based products and services for several small businesses. Designed and produced multiple Websites (See: www.HNSHermes.com).

Responsible for scheduling, resource planning, budgeting and production of Internet-based ventures for several small businesses.

Have assisted entrepreneurs in developing vision and specifications for marketing and delivery of e-commerce products and services. Interfaced with clients to negotiate specification, marketing and delivery of their sites. Retained accountability for these projects financial integrity.
Global Dialogue Institute,  Philadelphia, PA
Executive Secretary / Internet Project Coordinator		 1994 – 1997
Responsibilities included facilitation, coordination and providing direction for team engaged in web development. Planned, organized, participated in international conferences and roundtables. Participated in hiring decisions and administered staff reviews.
  • Devised and implemented communication plans
  • Designed, constructed and maintained web-site employing HTML, 

    • Adobe Photo Shop & Illustrator
  • Substantial contribution to case statement, and grant proposals
  • Organized, planned and executed content and design for newsletter, brochures, and other printed materials – web and hard copy
  • Edited and published Institute's anthology, Envisioning a Global Ethic 
  • Completed projects within budget and on schedule
Enlightened World Foundation, West Conshohocken, PA
Consultant / Co-Author		 1995 – 1997
  • Co-authored article published in World Business Academy 

    • journal Perspectives
  • Co-authored chapter, "The Second Axial Period: Business 

    • for Social Responsibility"
  • Organized, planned and executed content and design for newsletters
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Dissertation Completion Fellowship 		1993 – 1994
Awarded full year's funding to complete Ph.D. studies. One of twelve Fellowships granted by the Dean of the Graduate School, College of Arts and Sciences, Temple University.

Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Lecturer, Ph.D. studies 		1984 – 1992
Acquired extensive teaching experience and expertise at Temple and Rutgers University, while completing Ph.D. studies. Responsible for motivating students of diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds in small seminars and in classes of up to 95 students. Developed lecture, study and discussion topics for courses in World Religions, Asian Religions, Religions in America, Intellectual Heritage, and English Composition.
  • Completed M.A. at Marquette University, transferred to Ph.D. program at Temple University
1983 – 1984
  • Invited to pursue graduate studies with the Jesuit faculty at the Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Sankt Georgen, Frankfurt, Germany. For two years, immersed in the language and culture of Germany. Taught English at Inlingua Foreign Language School.
 1981 – 1983
  • Entered graduate religious studies at Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI. Augmented income organizing disadvantaged multi-ethnic inner city neighborhood.
 1980 – 1981
  • Lived in Kyoto, Japan, studied language, religions and culture. Practiced meditation on Mt. Hiei with Ten Dai Buddhists. Became conversant in Japanese, formed a small business manufacturing and distributing leather goods. Taught English to businessmen and university students.
 1976 – 1979
  • After completing B.A. traveled to Bangkok, Thailand. Lived and studied as a bhikkhu at Wat Mahadhattu, (Theravada Buddhist University). This out-of-culture experience provided first hand knowledge of culture and religion in an Asian context.
 1974 – 1975
Special Expertise:
    Languages – German, Japanese:
Publications:
“Ecomind and Global Ethics,” Lawrence S. Bale, Global Virtue Ethics Review,
       1 (2), 1999: pp. 106-115
    Lawrence S. Bale and Harry R. Halloran, Jr., "The Second Axial Period:
            Business for Social Responsibility," Chapter Seventeen, Doors of
            Understanding: Conversations in Global Spirituality
            (Qincy, Illinois: Franciscan Press, 1998).
Education:

Specific Areas
of Study: 		Interreligious Dialogue, Communications Theory, 
Systems Analysis and Cybernetics; Religion and 
Social Sciences.



General Areas
of Study: 		East-West Dialogue; Buddhism and Asian Cultures; 
History of Christian Theology; Environmental Ethics; 
American Culture and Religion.



Ph.D. Temple University 1994



 M.A. Marquette University 1984




Philosophisch Theologische Hochschule Sankt Georgen, 
Frankfurt, Germany		 1983




Wat Mahadhattu, Theravada Buddhist University,
Bangkok, Thailand		 1975



B.A. University of Hawaii 1973






lsb – 11/23/2009