Stephen F. Kaufman is an authority on management strategy, reality facilitation training, and a world-renowned martial arts master. He provides solutions that empower audiences and corporate clients to turn challenges by demonstrating definitive working techniques guaranteed to bring about advantageous results.

He is the author of the best-selling interpretations of Musashi's Book of Five Rings, Sun Tzu's Art of War, Lao Tzu's Living Tao, The Shogun's Scroll, along with The Art of Stick Fighting and The Sword in the Boardroom, which focuses on business management based on honesty, integrity, and morality for contemporary negotiations. He has penned more than 37 books and short stories. He speaks with true understanding of the lessons taught by the ancient masters and focuses on the immediate needs of groups. His work is considered essential study for individuals and organizations interested in progressive management/motivation development that includes life enhancement skills.

Stephen F. Kaufman is the founder and author of Self-Revealization Acceptance - Your Divine Right to Live in Joy and Freedom and Practicing Self-Revealization Acceptance - 52 Weekly Ascensions to Empower Your Life, the first, foremost, and original reality facilitation concept ever presented to the modern world in 1993, guaranteed to bring immediate and permanent results.

Acknowledged as a true founding father of American Karate, he was elected to the title and rank of Hanshi, 10th Dan, the most prestigious accomplishment in the martial arts world by international peer associations in 1991. His martial arts system is recognized by leading world martial arts master to be one of the most realistic warrior methods in the world. He has received countless awards and honors for his work. He has been awarded the Platinum Lifetime Achievement and Platinum Martial Arts Pioneer award denoting 50 years of service to the arts by significant organizations. He has recently been inducted into the World Karate Union Hall of Fame as 2011 Author of the Year.

A lifetime of work starting on Okinawa in the 1950’s while in the United States Air Force includes teaching and practical experience with law enforcement agencies, NYC Board of Education, Dept. for the Aging, litigation firms, marketing groups, corporations, community centers and private schools. His Hanshi's World cable tv show on the Manhattan Neighborhood Network began in 2011 as a vehicle to showcase his martial arts, his books, and the works of other artists and authors of merit.

In 2009, he ran for New York City council for District 5, the Upper Eastside in Manhattan. With only four months of campaigning, he culled an astonishing 27% of the vote, the highest percentage in the five boroughs.

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