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Early Life Born Christchurch, New Zealand 4 January 1940. Raised in Wellington from age two. Father Jack Wareham, banquet hall proprietor, and Wellington Rugby Union representative 1934 through 1938. Mother haberdashery proprietor. Parents separated 1946. Education Attended local parochial schools, then, 1951-1952, Mount Cook intermediate where English master was child-psychologist, academic, and novelist Dr. Brian Sutton-Smith. Attended Palmerston North Boys High School as a boarder 1953 to 1957; then Victoria University of Wellington 1959-62 as part time student; graduated in business administration; qualified as chartered accountant and chartered secretary. Overcame debilitating stutter to win Victoria University medal for oratory. Career ·       1958 to 1963 stints in banking, advertising, and chartered accounting. Founded own leadership selection and development consultancy in Wellington in 1964; expanded to offices in Auckland and Christchurch in 1969, then Sydney 1970 and Melbourne 1972. Emigrated to New York in 1977; created headquarters there, then added offices in Chicago 1978 and London 1980. ·       Served as director responsible for corporate governance and leadership selection and development for NASDAQ-listed Securicor Wireless. ·       Created, marketed, presented and facilitated leadership programs for senior executives throughout the United States, Canada, Australasia, and Europe. ·       Pioneered the use of the incomplete sentence blank as a psychological instrument for assessing executive behavior. Created in this format the Condensed Life Insight Questionnaire (CLIQ) and the Comprehensive Leadership Opinion Questionnaire (CLOQ). Created and maintained for research purposes a database of executive bio-histories and sentence completions. Prison Reform ·       As unpaid volunteer for the Osborne Association, created and presented Taking Wings® a half-day per week 13-week program for Rikers Island Inmates from 1996 to 2004. With ex-offending Taking Wings® graduates Kenneth Johnson and Joseph Roberts, created The Eagles Circle Foundation Incorporated (a 503C corporation) for the identification of leaders within the prison population, and development of same to productive citizens upon release. ·       Led the Eagles Taking Wings® program at Wallkill Correctional Facility from 2005 to 2007 then at Downstate Correctional Facilities until 2015. ·       Ran the Taking Wings® program at Paremoremo max security facility in New Zealand in 2005. Created and led development program for leadership weekend retreat of Black Power and Mongrel Mob, the enemy gangs responsible for the majority violent crime in New Zealand. The New Zealand Herald hailed the positive outcome “a miracle”. Conducted follow-up program that resulted in formal ‘Otatara Accord’ among those gangs to ameliorate gang warfare. ·       June 2015 to June 2019 served as trustee of the Wellington based registered charity Consultancy Advocacy Research Trust (CART), “delivering fresh hope and real change where most needed” with focus on gangs, re-entering ex-offenders, at-risk youth and faltering families. ·       2016, working with CART, created and facilitated the Black Power Film Festival in Wellington. ·       2019, created and led Eagles Taking Wings® weekend retreat for ex-offenders and at-risk Harlem youth, at the Harlem, New York headquarters of the Association of Black Social Workers. Private Life ·       Married since 1961 to Margaret Owles, pharmacist’s daughter. Children include singer/songwriter, Dean Wareham; sound production Emmy winner Jonathan Wareham, and writer Louise Wareham. ·       Skippered own yacht, winning class and division in 1976-77 Sydney to Hobart race. ·       Joint New Zealand / American Citizen since 1999. ·       For the 2019 Victoria University of Wellington fine arts film school, Chinese movie-maker Huan Huan Zhang created How to Break Out of Prison, a biopic that relates Wareham’s early life and stutter to his subsequent teaching career in inside maximum security prisons. ·       Currently resides in Wellington, New Zealand. Writing Widely published. Favored themes are the roots of human failures and successes, and the surmounting of personal hurdles, impairment, and setbacks. Publications include: ·       Exposed: (Welcome Rain 2015) Memoir in novelistic form. ·       How to Survive a Bullet to the Heart: Secret Lives and Uncensored Confessions of Maximum Security Prison Inmates (Welcome Rain / Poets and Writers, 2014). Anthology chronicling the emotional journeys of prison program inmates of Downstate Correctional Facility, Fishkill New York. . Annotated by Wareham to illustrate life-changing principles. ·       Sonnets for Sinners. (Welcome Rain 2010). Pulitzer nominee. (Wrote and produced in 2017 stage adaptation, A Wicked Evening of Illicit Love, performed at Aratoi Arts Festival, Masterton, and Prefab Theater, Wellington. ·       The President’s Therapist—and the Secret Intervention to Treat the Alcoholism of George W. Bush. (Welcome Rain 2008). Political fiction. . ·        Chancey On Top (Welcome Rain 2004) a novel that explores the similar moral quandaries of love and business. ·        How to Break Out of Prison (Welcome Rain 2003). Crossover life-changer for corporate leaders and prison inmates. ·        The New Secrets of a Corporate Headhunter (Harper Business 1994) Advice for upward business strivers. ·        The Anatomy of a Great Executive, (Harper Business 1991) How to identify and develop executive winners. ·        Wareham’s Way (Scribners 1983) How to avoid the self-sabotage syndrome, and other advice to overachievers ·        Wareham’s Basic Business Types (1982 MacMillan) Compendium of frequently encountered executive styles. ·       Secrets of a Corporate Headhunter (1980 Atheneum/Scribers.) Leadership advice to CEOs. ·       Numerous articles including OP-Ed pieces in The New York Times and the Financial Times. Regular monthly column for five years for Across the Board, the Journal of the Conference Board. Huffington Post Blogger. ·       Profiled in Leaders magazine; guest on many radio and television programs, including PBS, BBC, CNN, NBC, Fox News, and Court TV. Featured on PBS Books Du Jour.