Corporate Tai Chi For Adults & Kids

Jaren Levitt, sales leader extraordinaire, had the innate ability to turn opportunity into gold on many occasions. With the vision of an eagle, he began with an idea and made it a successful machine. He molded what could only have been a one-deal-sale into rehab clinics, a medical consulting firm, a time-share organization, a consulting relationship with IBM, political friends, professional athletic friends, a granite company and a framework from which LED lighting can be offered and implemented.

Jaren’s spirit was that of a tiger, tenacious, willing, determined and ready to succeed, whether it involved his responsible role as a caring and mentoring father, as the creative force behind a stable sales organization, as an upstanding citizen in his current community of Sarasota, or as a friend to many of us across the globe.

Along with this true ability to be proactive, to keep going and produce results in the shortest length of time was Jaren’s nurturing side.  Not only was he the King of Providers for his family, he was able to nurture his team by mentoring them in skills that would take them to their own level of independent success. On so many occasions, this writer watched him groom his people to flourish, never doing the job in place of teaching the job, always seeing the big picture, rather than falling pray to the trite.

Let me explain how Jaren was a pure example of Corporate Tai Chi, even though he had never done it. When someone has a smooth and easy understanding as Jaren did (as was characterized by a nickname of his,  Easy Exec) about how to get the job done, effortlessly and directly, you see tai chi in action. Corporate tai chi. When you see instant recognition without flaw or stumble, such as Jaren embodied, this is tai chi. The purpose of the physical martial art is to transcend the physical. Few people do it.  Jaren was one.

Some, and I include myself until several weeks ago, believed that Corporate Tai Chi was a methodology of taking tai chi-like exercise into the corporate world to change employee productivity level through motivation and chi. This is not the big picture. In looking from a broader perspective, in the manner Jaren used to teach by example, Corporate Tai Chi is a concept. Aside from its being a method, the Corporate Tai Chi concept consists of the ability to translate the five-minute physical session (born from the corporate need for work/life balance) into becoming supple in decision making, commanding in execution of task, charismatic in speech delivery, in the way you move and breathe. Corporate Tai Chi, like regular tai chi, is a way of being. Jaren Levitt was this way of being.

Although he never ended up studying the tai chi movement, though he said he would be willing to try when time permitted, he was the corporate tai chi concept. One of the rare individuals who, I can say, understood tai chi flow without knowing tai chi, Jaren took an overview of life and executed his insight and foresight in the most direct, trouble-free, waste-free, good-natured manner, as he would want his children, Jaden and Janna, the loves of his life, to do.

Much love and much respect for a true Corporate Tai Chi practitioner of spirit and hero in my eyes, Jaren Mark Levitt, who came onto this earth on March 19, 1946, and has left it on June 27, 2009. You have made a positive difference in all who have spent time with you. Anyone we encounter will benefit from the growth we have experienced because of you. You are and will be missed.

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