Gerald R. Wagner

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT GERALD R. WAGNER

Jerry\'s current emphasis in the development of the Culture in Action conference to be held in Bastrop, Texas in October. Bastrop is on the east edge of Austin. Look at the website and see this is a uniquely mall and elite conference for discovering ideas and projects to improve workplace wellbeing. The event is an initiative of Culture in Action which is a nonprofit Benefit Corporation. The company was preceded by the Academy of Culture Ambassadors. Both were started by Jerry. About me: As a statistician with a PhD from Iowa State, my career started as a Research Statistician. That was soon followed as a Professor at the University of Texas in Austin where I was head of the Operations Research/Industrial Engineering group in the College of Engineering. While there I started my first software company followed by 3 more before leaving Austin to move to Omaha, NE. In Omaha, I started the BSc. Degree in IT Innovation at the Peter Kiewit Institute, College of Engineering. While there I was also a senior scientist at the Gallup Organization in the area of data visualization. During that time Gallup published their book entitled Wellbeing: The five essential elements. I loved the content so much that I changed careers and went to Bellevue University to start the institute for Employee Wellbeing. What started there developed into what is now Culture In Action a Benefit Corporation.