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What They're Saying...
"Darya has always been on the furthest edges of personal and leadership development. She sees where the story of Third Principle leadership takes us. Her observation that the self—who we are as human beings—is the tool we have with which to lead was quite powerful to me twenty years ago. Once again, I find her insights about leadership, love and paradox to be well ahead of most of us."
Lisa Marshall, Speak the Truth and Point to Hope—The Leader’s Journey to Maturity |
Biography
Dr. Darya Funches is Founder and CEO of The REAP Gallery Unlimited Corporation and is the developer of the REAP Unlimited System™. She has over 30 years of experience in corporate and personal transformation, executive development and professional development of change agents and visionary leaders. In her roles as consultant, educator and developer of professionals in the field, she has led thousands of consulting engagements, seminars and other learning experiences.
She was a forerunner in helping leaders and change agents understand and improve effective use of self as a transformer. Dr. Darya was ahead of her time in contending that “You cannot lead others to a place you have not been yourself—at least in consciousness.” Leaders who want to transform countries, corporations, communities and industries must also transform themselves as part of creating what’s new. Now she contends that “the science of use of self is the new technology on which the economies of the future will be based.”
Dr. Darya began consulting in 1973 after working on a study about merging the city and county in Durham North Carolina from 1971 to 1973. Since 1985, she has developed concepts, models and techniques for creating new realities. These concepts and techniques can be applied to making corporate visions and strategies into positive results, transforming culture, and making individual dreams into reality. Her work integrates business strategy and results, science, universal principles, systems and organization theory, leadership and psychology. She has dedicated herself to developing approaches that can be used for companies, alliances of organizations, educational and service institutions, and for individuals learning together in large groups.
Previous and current clients include American Friends Service Committee, National Public Radio, Atlantic Energy (Conectiv), Eastman Kodak, Glaxo Wellcome, Inc., Ethicon Endo-Surgery, AT&T Communications, Bell Labs (Lucent Technologies), Citicorp-Citibank, Eastman Kodak Corporation, Exxon Corporation, Board of Governors-Federal Reserve System, Maryland National Bank, IBM, Washington Hospital Center, Kings County Hospital (Brooklyn, NY), Scott Paper Company, Digital Equipment Corporation, Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, and US. Departments of Treasury, Agriculture, Commerce and Defense.
Dr. Darya was recognized as Most Outstanding Adjunct Faculty in 1985 at American University’s School of Government and Internal Affairs. She is former faculty for the Organization and Systems Development Program at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland and the University of Southern California-Washington Public Affairs Center. In her professional community, she is Past Chair of the Board of Directors of NTL Institute, and a member of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland. She has also been keynote speaker for numerous national conferences on organization development and change. Speaking on topics of transformation, change and diversity, she has also appeared on radio and television in the US and abroad.
Her work in transformation and use of self is available in “Three Gifts of the Organization Development Practitioner”, in Emerging Theory and Practice of Organization Development; “The Inner Experience of Leading Transformation,” 1994; and The REAP Model, the conceptual basis of her consulting work through REAP Unlimited. She is author of I Send My Blankets Over You - Lessons of Love, and “Leadership is Love Made Visible” in Lisa Marshall’s book, Speak the Truth and Point to Hope.
Her personal journey has included and still includes working with indigenous people from this land and lands abroad. As a result she has been able to see connections between the teachings she received from Spirit that guided her conceptual work and the teachings of different indigenous peoples.
Dr. Darya has a Bachelors Degree in Mathematics from Lake Forest College, a Masters of Public Administration Degree from the University of North Carolina, and a Doctoral Degree in Education from the University of Massachusetts. She was born in Mississippi, grew up in Houston, Texas and currently lives in Mossyrock, Washington. Darya has traveled to Europe, New Zealand, Indonesia, Asia, South Africa, Egypt, Peru, Bolivia, Russia, Siberia, Uzbekistan, the Caribbean, Mexico and Canada.
