Ernest de l’Autin, Ean as known by friends and associates, is currently an Independent Consultant, Author, and Lecturer.

In the past twenty years he has authored or co-authored over a dozen technical articles, edited at least a dozen technical articles, and of recent has completed two novels. He has three more novels underway.

Ean holds a B.S. in Analytical Chemistry from Nicholls, and a Masters +60 in Polymer Science from the Polymer Institute at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is also a certified Master Practitioner in Neuro-Lingustic Programming and maintains an HRD Certification from the University of Oklahoma. He has worked in the US and internationally in a broad range of responsibilities
• beginning his career as a research scientist
• teaching as a university professor
• motivating high-risk teenagers
• and working in corporate America and moving into management consulting.
His journey has led him to the discovery that writing real life experience in fiction while using the art of myth and metaphor can be an extraordinary manner in which to share life lessons and specific perceptions.

His experiences as a scientist, teacher, businessman, consultant, and author have provided a broad range of opportunities to experience people on a number of levels.

• As a scientist he discovered a role that technology can play, including its limits.
• As a teacher he learned that people want to learn in a fun, energizing, entertaining way that appropriately challenges them to grow.
• As a businessman he found that people aren’t an organizations greatest asset, they are the organization.
• As a consultant he confirmed that people typically do not care how much you know until they know how much you care.
• As an author he has discovered that caring can be expressed in the written word allowing others to tap into their hearts and souls (including his own) at their own private pace.

When integrated together, he has had the privilege of watching individual and organizational excellence flourish.

Ean’s mission as an author and lecturer is simple. He hopes to engage readers into self-exploration by providing fictional material based on the human experience that is well written, entertaining, amusing, sobering, and real. As a consultant, Ean serves clients in achieving top-quartile performance by optimizing and then integrating the people, processes, technological, and economic systems required to operate a successful enterprise.

Ean considers himself a student of organizational change, practicing the integration of people, processes, technologies into high performing systems producing top quartile economic results. Writing novels has provided him with extraordinary insight into other people. He has discovered that these insights are frequently nothing more than mirrors to his own soul.

Ean believes that luck is the result of opportunity meeting preparation resulting in the maximization of human, process, technological, and economic systems. Discovering the root cause to highly successful individuals and organizations has led him to a love of writing fiction that expresses the journey undertaken to achieve that success, whether it be small victories over life’s challenges, or organizational excellence.

Honors and Recognition:

• National Marquis Who’s Who in Business and Industry Executives
• Who’s Who in America
• Who’s Who in American Education
• Outstanding Young Men of America
• Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity Grand Prytanis Award
• Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity Key Leader Award
• Gulf Oil Research Fellow
• Nicholls State University Hall of Fame
• Nicholls State University Magna Cum Laude Graduate
• Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society