Dr. Fred R. Lybrand
Dr. Fred Lybrand has been called America’s Solutions Evangelist, but prefers the term “Solutions Enthusiast.” His talent for systems redesign, strategic communication, and leader mentoring have been employed by Marathon Oil, Burlington Resources, Protrader, Pioneer Natural Resources, and the United States Air Force.
Dr. Lybrand has degrees and certifications including such diverse things as English Literature, Speech Communications, Structural Dynamics, Fiction Writing, numerous personality instruments, Applied Theology, Counseling, and Organizational Re-design. He is a founding partner of TrimTab Solutions, an Energy Industry leadership coaching firm.
He is the author of six books and is the creator of The Writing Course, a unique curriculum for teaching children to write well without knowing the rules of grammar or punctuation. As an educator and non-profit consultant, Dr. Lybrand has served on the founding boards of a Classical model private school and an International Christian Leadership Alliance.
Fred and his wife, Jody, live in San Antonio and homeschooled their five children from birth to college.
Lybrand has been married to Jody White Lybrand, his college sweetheart, for 29 years. They have five children: Tripp, Laura, Forrest, Holmes, and Brooks. Jody has a master’s degree in early childhood education and does the larger share of the homeschooling for the Lybrand gang, all of whom have been schooled from birth to college at home. Dr. Lybrand agrees that ‘if you can’t say it you don’t know it’, and with writing as his first love, he created The Writing Course a curriculum to teach kids to overcome every fear of writing on the way to writing well.
In addition to Glaen: A Novel Message on Romance, Love, and Relating, Lybrand has written and published five other books entitled Preaching on Your Feet; Back to Faith: Reclaiming gospel clarity in an age of incongruence; About Life and Uganda, ; The Absolute Quickest Way to Help Your Child Change; ; and Heavenly Citizenship: The Spiritual Alternative to Power Politics
Client Sample:
United States Air Force
Pioneer Natural Resources
Marathon Oil
Rose & Associates
Valero
Encana
Protrader
The Bosworth Company
Burlington Resources