Jard DeVille is now recognized by many as the most prolific and creative successor to Vicktor Frankl. For decades he and Roberta -- his wife and co-author and daughter Dee,
who is their editor and computer guru, have followed Viktor’s approach to identifying meaningful
lifestyles. They spent decades researching Logotherapy, rubbing concepts together while pastoring
and teaching in churches, colleges and universities, working in and directing clinics and
consulting in large and small organizations of various kinds around the world.
During their adult lives Jard and Roberta have produced a virtual library of books, seminars, and
psychological assessment instruments -- most of them based on the Logotherapy constructs they
first learned from Viktor forty years ago and then modified as they became more and more
competent and thoughtful for themselves. Every one of the seventeen book length study courses
in the LOGOTHERAPY LEARNING CENTER’S core curriculum, is their own work. As Viktor once said --
a dwarf seated on a giant’s shoulder can sometimes see further down the trail than can the giant. They have modified Logotherapy in this manner -
LOGOTHERAPY = f (Personal Meaning x Communal Belonging)
Jard combined Viktor’s focus on personal meaning with his
own emphasis on situations and relationships where one belongs emotionally -- where good people are accepted, loved
and trusted in places of the heart.
Jard has served society in these settings.
VITA
Military Airman -- U S Army Air Forces -- Pacific And Asia.
Minister And Pastoral Counselor -- Western Hills Church,
Cincinnati.
Science / Vo-Tech Instructor -- Sayler Park School,
Cincinnati.
Psychology Professor / Student Counselor -- Illinois Olivet
College.
Psychology Professor / Psych. Dept. Chair -- Utah
Westminster College.
Manager, Engineering Research, Methods And Training --
UniRoyal Inc.
Director -- The Child Conservation Center (Dyslexic Therapy
Clinic)
Leadership Professor -- Executive Development Programs -- University
of Arizona
Founding Chairman - The Fulfillment Forum and The Logotherapy
Learning Center
EDUCATION
(In addition to reading a non-fiction book a day for about thirty years)
Bachelors - Pasadena College (Ministry/History/Journalism)
Masters - University Of Cincinnati (Education/Ed.
Psychology)
Post Masters - University Of Illinois - Champaign-Urbana
(Leadership)
University Of Wisconsin - Madison (Leadership Psychology)
Doctorate - California Western University - (Existential
Psychology)
Jard’s leadership psychology classes in the University of
Arizona’s Executive Development Program at Tucson, made a
major difference in several hundred sound institutions. They
were rated extremely well by scores of hard nosed middle
managers. These men and women, chosen for top level
leadership training by many world wide organizations gave
his courses an astonishing 3.68 average on a four point
scale for almost a decade. When he was the lead psychology
professor at Olivet College, his expertise built the
Psychology Department from eight to forty majors in two
years. He taught Frankl’s Logotherapy principles to hundreds
of pastors including programs sponsored by spiritual leaders
in several major denominations.
During his college teaching
tour of duty, Jard recruited around one hundred fine young
persons for professional programs in clinical and consulting
psychology. Some of them are now reaching retirement after
careers invested in using the suberb Logotherapy methods he and
Roberta learned from Viktor Frankl. At Utah Westminster College, he
developed the Aviation Science minor that still trains
business majors as corporate aviators with eight propeller
driven and two jet aircraft. When he was Manager of
Engineering Research, Methods And Training for a huge
UniRoyal chemical manufacturing facility, his team trained
more than a thousand minority persons and early-release
felons as employable electricians, carpenters, pipe fitters, etc. He personally researched, developed and implemented
the preventative maintenance program for the eight thousand
employee, twenty thousand acre complex.
In addition, Jard has taught existential psychology and
Logotherapy seminars in a dozen or so universities including
Arizona, Purdue, Indiana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin,
Alaska and in many fine smaller schools such as Albion,
Illinois Wesleyan Normandale and Mary colleges. He has
conducted scores of seminars for companies like Digital,
Ford Motor Company, Honeywell, 3M, Personal Dynamics,
First Banks, The Alexander Hamilton Institute and for
several major religious denomination. He reached multitudes
of people through radio and television programs and talk
shows. He has also researched, written and published books
like LEADERSHIP POWER for Yanagadiara Ltd. of Japan. He
conducted numerous programs for the Chin Hak Wong Syndicate
of Singapore and Kuala Lumpur Malaysia and for Forester Ltd.
across Australia and New Zealand.
Hardcover books NICE GUYS FINISH FIRST and LOVERS FOR LIFE were major front
list books in WILLIAM MORROW’S catalogues when they were
first published. GRACE UNDER PRESSURE first appeared as
Jard’s textbook in the Executive Development Program at the
University of Arizona and then was published in hard cover
by Farnsworth as THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LEADERSHIP -- and then in
paperback for their Executive Growth Series by the New
American Library publishing house. PARENTING WINNING
CHILDREN originated as his continuing education sessions for
Jard’s teachers and psychologists in his training seminars
when he was Director of The Child Conservation Center. This
was a dyslexic learning and learning disabilities therapy
clinic conjoined with the University of Wisconsin. This
course earned graduate credit for the course participants in
their masters and doctoral programs at the Madison and the
Milwaukee campuses. His FRONTIERS OF FULFILLMENT and THE
LIBERATED SOUL series of six full length segments in our
curriculum, were piloted scores of times across the United
States and abroad. At the very least, anyone who ever
studied with Jard in his tours of duty as a psychology
professor and clinic director or heard him present these
programs for corporations, churches, professional
associations, universities and colleges, or read any of his
excellent books, knew immediately they were learning from a
master scholar who wore his mantle lightly.
At the very least, anyone who ever studied with Jard in his
tours of duty as a psychology professor and clinic director
or heard him present these Logotherapy concepts for
corporations, churches, professional associations,
universities and colleges, or read any of his excellent
books and courses, knew immediately they were learning from a master
scholar. And now you can have the same advantages for
yourself with online learning.
“Jard H. won highest praise from the leadership of General Electric Capital Fleet Services for years as one of GE’s leaders in customer satisfaction and retention by communicating so with our perspective and repeat customers. He integrated Logotherapy leadership concepts from the course NICE GUYS FINISH FIRST into his managerial training and customer relationships. Leading through the reciprocity principle, honesty, respect, shared rewards and knowledge, he created great win, win relationships throughout his G E career.” James Johnson, Heavy Operations Manager -- Fleet Capital Services
Dee DeVille has experienced a broad range of success in client and company relations,
client retention and development, the training of adults and students, communication, non-profit leadership,
application development, marketing, and community relations. As the project manager for Achieve
Minneapolis -- she developed communities of achievers throughout Minneapolis City and Suburban High Schools.
She trained, taught and developed in these organizations and companies; Rosemount Inc., Express Scripts, Greater
Alliance For Learning, Achieve Minneapolis, Thomson Prometrics, Xcel Energy and plus scores of regional
high schools and colleges. She also won Best Employee of the Year Award from Masterson Inc. in 2000.
