“My family’s rich in oral history,” says Dorothy E. Fischer. She vividly recalls hearing about her father’s grandparents’ Conestoga Wagon trek to Western Iowa from Warren, Pennsylvania after the Civil War. “And HIS father, a Prussian mercenary personal bodyguard to Napoleon Bonaparte, came to “The New World” in 1813!”
“It’s now time to add pictures and produce films!”
Her peaceful childhood in Cedar Falls, Iowa, filled with horses, journalism, debate & fine arts, was augmented by travel stories from her international agribusiness consultant father, pursuing his passion to combat starvation in developing countries.
Dorothy delighted in choosing Lawrence University, a small liberal arts college & conservatory of music in Appleton, WI, where she thrived as an econ-math student who also studied vocal music. The University of Michigan immediately followed, where Dorothy completed her MBA in Organizational Development “AND became a passionate Wolverine forevermore…. Go BLUE!!”
The Global HQ of a major consumer brands company recruited Dorothy to Dallas, TX for strategic planning & business analysis. Two years later she became Manager of Financial Planning & Analysis for a multimillion-dollar manufacturing division of SOHIO (Standard Oil of Ohio). “I saw the boom, and bust, of the oil industry in just 5 years. We closed our doors as oil plummeted to $9/barrel. No employee paychecks since!”
Freelance independent consulting brought Dorothy a host of assignments, still seeking her “true path.” One day “a single phone call changed my life.” Dorothy experienced a unique system for “helping people get out of their own way—starting with ME.”
Shortly after her breakthrough session, Dorothy launched “InnerAwareness” in 1990. In a world before the World Wide Web, Internet, email, cellphones, text messages, or social media, Dorothy’s private practice was full in under a year. “My clients were walking billboards!”
For 10 years, Dorothy taught original classes on “Self-Sabotage Prevention”, “How to Discover What You Really Want”, and “One-Brain Technology”, resulting in her being booked solid 3 months in advance. InnerAwareness has touched many lives; Dorothy quit counting a few years ago “when we clocked our 60,000th client hour.”
Dorothy is motivated by “seeing the light come back into people’s eyes” when their energies shift, limiting beliefs are reprogrammed, invisible roadblocks to success are cleared, and “They KNOW IT!”
Now Dorothy is able to clear GROUPS. No longer limited to one-on-one facilitation, her “next level passion” is to blend this with her Organizational Development MBA roots to address the human side of business. “In 1995 I contributed my chapter “The System Versus the Soul” to an anthology book “REDISCOVERING THE SOUL OF BUSINESS.” I challenged business leaders to no longer sanction Machiavellian “The end justifies the means” Systems, instead supporting Soulful win-win outcomes.
Dorothy concludes, “I believe the remarkable transformations I’ve witnessed client after client, can now be implemented in organizations and work teams. The business world NEEDS to have the ‘light comeback in their eyes”. It is time to ignite the S.P.A.R.K. (stay tuned) in our business world and in ourselves—that’s my mission now!