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Dr. Harald S. Harung is a high performer in lecturing, research and the sport of orienteering. He has formulated a Unified Theory of Performance, which states that higher mind-brain development is the basis of higher performance in all professions, vocations, and organizations. Harung has been teaching management, ethics, and world-class performance to classes of up to 500 students at Oslo Metropolitan University (16,000 students) in Norway, and is a visiting professor at Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield, Iowa, USA. He has for more than 30 years been working as a researcher and consultant within human performance development, both on the individual and organizational level. Dr. Harung has lectured worldwide and his research on world-class performers has received support from both public institutions and private companies. Participants and collaborators in his seminars include such companies as Manpower, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Amoco, Den Norske Bank, Ericsson, Norsk Hydro, Santa Maria, Telenor, Toyota, and Xerox. He has worked with or lectured at organizations such as Academy of Management, European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management, Finnish Marketing Association, Indian Institute of Management, Olympiatoppen (Norwegian National Olympic Training Centre), University of Wales at Aberystwyth, and World Productivity Congress, Stockholm, Scotland, and Turkey.

Dr. Harung holds a Ph.D. from the University of Manchester. He has worked as a researcher at Oxford University, naval officer, CEO of an engineering firm, and founder and president of an international business college, and has been one of the editors of The Learning Organization—An International Journal. Dr. Harung has published papers in such journals as Journal of Managerial Psychology, Cognitive Processing, Consciousness and Cognition, Management Decision, and Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports.

Sebastian Martens Harung is founder and CEO of Kameo, a crowdlending business located in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (see www.kameo.se). Sebastian has experience as a consultant at Geelmuyden.Kiese, associate at DNB Markets and Skandinaviske Enskilda Banken. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Oslo Metropolitan University, and a Master’s Degree in Finance from Copenhagen Business School. Sebastian played for the soccer club Skeid in the Norwegian first division for several years.