The Human Potential Project, a Spokane company that offers what it calls transformational learning to improve corporate and personal success, says it has landed a contract with Amgen Inc. to provide training to some of that biotech giants employees in Cork, Ireland.


Chris Majer, CEO and majority owner of The Human Potential Project (HP2), says the training probably will extend over about three years. He puts the value of the contract at a couple million dollars for one fixed portion, but says it has the potential to be much larger under incentives tied to improvements in Amgens performance.


Separately, HP2 announced recently that its training the entire 2,500-employee U.S. staff of a multinational company called Allianz Life of North America.


Senior executives at Allianz had gone through HP2s training program initially, and the company liked the results so much that it decided to expand its involvement with HP2, the Spokane company says.


Majer says HP2 is beginning training work now with the last 600 or so of those 2,500 Allianz employees, and that effort is expected to continue over the next year to year and a half. He says the total value of HP2s work with Allianz is expected to top $8 million.


Additionally, Majer announced that HP2 has hired Jay Babineau, who formerly had worked here with ICM Asset Management Inc. and Zak Designs Inc., to be its president.


Majer had been president of HP2, in addition to CEO, but says the 5-year-old companys workload and work force have grown to the point that he needed to hand off some of those management responsibilities.


Weve got 65 people on our team roster now, he says, referring to the independent contractors the company uses to help conduct its programs.


The Human Potential Project shuns academic-focused training in favor of a practice-oriented learning method that seeks to develop competence that can be applied to a range of endeavors.


It serves mostly larger corporate clients around the world, through training sessions that normally run for seven to 36 months and for which it typically charges $50,000 to upwards of $500,000.


Its corporate programs focus on everything from business strategy, leadership, and management issues, to developing high-performing teams and innovative practices.


The goal, and the vow it makes to clients, Majer says, is to free upthrough cost-reducing efficiencies or added revenues10 times the amount of money that the client spends on the learning programs.


Contact Kim Crompton at (509) 344-1263 or via e-mail at kimc@spokanejournal.com.