Designed for Life

Art Miller is a pioneer. For most of his adult life he has been seeking to better understand the person and how to integrate faith and life. Although only a beginning, he has found that there is one answer to both issues He founded People Management in 1961 which now is a network of consultants operating in four continents providing a range of human resource services based on his discoveries.

He is best known for near half-a-century odyssey researching and promoting the phenomenon of giftedness as innate in human nature. Art and his colleagues have studied the achievement history of more than 50,000 people one-at-a-time. Based on this rigorous phenomenological research, and the absolute consistency of their findings, he developed a System for Identifying Motivated Abilities [SIMAŽ] as the centerpiece of his lifework.

Realizing the need for a paradigm shift to one stressing the individual, Art began making presentations, writing articles and books explaining a new virtual psychology based on their research findings. Previously unknown among academics, the massive amount of evidence they gathered about the nature and behavior of the individual explained the inability of psychology over a century of its life searching for governing principles, to generate a science of persons or even a useable definition of the person.

Kidded by his associates as a 'Johnny Appleseed', Art has co-written four books on innate giftedness, has given seminars in Belgium; London; Harrogate; Amsterdam; Auckland and throughout the States. He has written articles for AMA's International Digest and International Forum, Institute of Personnel Management (UK), American Society Of Training and Development, College Placement Council, Association for Manufacturing Excellence, Personnel Management, Alban Institute, and The Conference Board ( Across the Board)

Art Miller introduced SIMA to NASA in1963 and continued to work with their headquarters, Goddard, Langley, and Ames Research Centers into the1970's. He introduced SIMA to Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Battelle(NW), Dow, Monsanto, Rohm & Haas, DuPont, IBM, Amoco, Conoco(UK), Upjohn, Merck, 3M, CIGNA, NYLife, Aetna, Prudential(UK) North American Philips, Ralston Purina, Phillip Morris, McDonnell Douglas, Lummus, Stone and Webster, Kodak, General Foods, American Gas Association, ALCOA, General Atomics, London Bus and a few others. Art helped lead the charge with ASQ when, under the management of Disney, a national program was inaugurated promoting 'The Stuff Americans Are Made Of' and needed a way of getting at worker's motivations.

He was instrumental in the faith renewal movement and introduced SIMA and Discover Your Design in church-based groups, colleges and institutions like Youth With A Mission, Campus Crusade For Christ, Young Life, Navigators, Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, Interchristo, and The Leaderhip Network. Art's work has been the stimulus and substance of Willow Creek's NETWORK and Saddleback's PURPOSE-DRIVEN SHAPE programs.

He was awarded a juris Doctor of Law and Bachelor of Science Degrees from Northwestern University. Now 83, Art and his wife, a poet, and their Irish Water Spaniel, live in the hill country of northwest Connecticut.

ARTHUR F. MILLER, JR.