When Jerry Speiser attended the Money & You® Program back in 1990, as he says “I went to do a personal development course and discovered Buckminster Fuller… and I was intrigued.” It started a 20+-year passion for studying the principles – and the thinking – he discovered that weekend…

Jerry went for it – and in a short time was conducting ”Bucky Study Groups” and on the advice of Robert Kiyosaki he turned them into a 2 day workshop called “Future by Design”. He then started running the workshops throughout Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.

Not only was Jerry ‘intrigued’, his approach to studying and applying what he was learning at a very deep level – based on his previous university education in physics – was also completely intriguing…

He understood Bucky at an advanced level – and was able to get that understanding across to his students in ways that not only had their jaws dropping in amazement, but he also got them to see how they were able to apply this to the everyday of their businesses and lives. As Bucky always said, “When you do what naturally works… it’s hard to fail”.

The pinnacle of this concentrated study and deep understanding came when he was asked to co-present a 7-day intensive in Hawaii. It was an extraordinary seminar run by Robert Kiyosaki, featuring 21 hours of Bucky on video and featuring some of the worlds clearest thinkers and long time student of Dr Fuller, including Amy Edmondson (author of “A Fuller Explanation” and currently the head of the Harvard University School of Leadership), and Randolph Craft (one of the people who shot the video of Bucky and who currently travels Asia/ China teaching thousands of Chinese Business School for Entrepreneurs participants the definition of such deep and complex topics as Precession and True Wealth). As Jerry said, “they had all met Bucky and I hadn’t. I was the new kid on the block… It was a pretty powerful program”.

The biggest message out of that event for me was “Do what you see needs to be done…” (Jim Stynes who also attended the event soon set up the Reach Foundation as a result of that very same message)

I stayed for a few more days after the event with Randolph and every day I would run on the beach and kept on repeating – do what you see needs to be done – and kept thinking – what do I have to do here?”

“At the time I owned a music business which was a carry over from my days as the drummer for Men at Work and that I really needed to sell. I spent the next few months re-energising it and finally sold it so I could really start to ‘do what I saw needed to be done’. In that time I still ran my Bucky study groups and workshops…’

Soon after Jerry set up On Board Communications with two friends Geoffrey Brown and Pierre Heath. They started consulting businesses on how to use Bucky in a daily practical way in everyday things. What he taught others to apply is the very foundation of everything that Jerry does today. “It’s very powerful and very deep and it’s how I do business today – and if you design your systems based on these principles they are naturally self-correcting”.

Jerry has relaunched his workshop calling it “Your Future By Design” – because he knows when he does this work he is happiest. “I’m also about half way through the book I’m writing on this whole thing.”

Jerry’s other project that he’s very passionate about is making sure music continues to be taught in primary schools. So true to form he’s put together an 'artifact' designed to support primary school teachers, called The Music Cubby. He and his colleagues Barry Carozzi and Sarah Cowan, have written completely original songs for the product. “It’s a very cool project because it was designed for teachers who don’t have any musical knowledge and they can still run a music session for their class. It has a little hand book, the songs to sing on CD, a karaoke track – and – song sheets.” Jerry laughed and said “so they can all stand in a circle, hold hands and cry…”

Jerry is still driven by the directive “do what you see needs to be done”.

You can’t keep an old ‘rock n' roller ‘ quiet for too long so Jerry’s also kept pretty busy doing gigs with his new band AfterBurner…