Armed with the weapons of excellence and  endurance, we explore the awesome potential of being human and teach the leadership values mastered by world heroes of peace.

Keynote Speeches, Workshops, Curriculums, and Seminars
 

The Company: Modeling Future Heroes is a corporation who's mission statement is to: "Enrich others with the wisdom, values, leadership, and problem-solving skills used by world heroes who compassionately crusade for peace using excellence, dignity, and endurance as their weapons of choice." We teach these leadership and conflict-resolution skills through seminars, keynote speeches, workshops, and programs presented for the United States military, government agencies, corporations, schools, and community outreach programs. We are assisting and developing grass-roots entrepreneurial training programs traveling to the world's impoverished areas encouraging start-up businesses among the local people.

With this in mind, Modeling Future Hero's objective is to encourage participation in community and humanitarian projects world wide as well as leadership training. Hiram College, a private liberal arts institution in Hiram, Ohio, stresses community service in its many curriculums realizing the vital role humanitarian projects play in receiving a well-rounded liberal arts education. Hiram College, with its modern teaching facilities and world-wide travel opportunities is a natural association for increasing humanitarian-need awareness and providing the necessary educational facilities to do so.

The Book: Modeling Future Heroes - A practical Application of Human Values, authored by Roger F. Cram and Carol A. Ruggie, is a text book nearing completion and is designed to teach others the values, problem-solving techniques, and conflict-resolution abilities of our world's heroes of peace. The book is a result of a 5-year study involving research into the peaceful personality characteristic and conflict-resolution abilities of many of our world's greatest heroes of peace. The book's intention, as presented through five escalating levels of learning and four levels of giving, is designed to offer the reader an opportunity to think and behave like our world's greatest heroes, those rare individuals who regularly solved almost insurmountable problems using an extraordinary value system.

The first level of learning in this text references the new book The Curse of Being Human by Jack Soules and deals with our instinctual behaviors and how many of them are out of place in today's culture. The second level of learning is dedicated to “ego-free compassion,” the unique activity of anonymously giving to strangers as presented through the SSSSH program. The third level of learning is committed to the remarkable leadership abilities and values of the Tuskegee Airmen known as “passive excellence.” See the Tuskegee Airmen Rotary Book Project.  The fourth level of learning involves the Sparrow Village Project and its selfless giving philosophies. Sparrow Village is classic example of level-four giving referred to as "self-actualization engagement." The final level of giving involves "human-values implementation" where the values of our world heroes are made available for those interested in becoming role models of excellence.

What does the company Modeling Future Heroes do?

Business and Educational Institutions: We offer seminars, workshops, keynote speeches, and curriculums designed for individual institutions involving the values, problem-solving abilities, and conflict resolution techniques used by world heroes who compassionately fought for peace and righteousness using excellence and endurance as their weapons of choice. Individuals who can master these inspiring characteristics can greatly enhance their personal and business relationships. These excellent and inspiring programs are individually designed for schools, colleges, the military, and the business environment.  

What is G.R.E.A.T.?                  

G.R.E.A.T. (Grass-Roots Entrepreneurial Assistance Training):  G.R.E.A.T. is not a company or organization; it is a curriculum under experimentation at Hiram College. Its future intention is to train adults, high school students, and college students in a leadership, values, and problem-solving program designed to locate and train a few select people who live in impoverished areas to be become successful "grass-roots" entrepreneurs. Sparrow Village and Children of the Dump are two current projects involved with grass-roots entrepreneurial training. In most poor areas around the world, unemployment often exceeds 80%.  There are no jobs. However, located within these destitute communities are citizens of extraordinary talent, intelligence, and abilities.  They are fully capable of successfully operating their own businesses if given an opportunity. We hope to give them that opportunity.

What is SSSSH?

SSSSH (a secret world-wide organization based on anonymous giving to strangers) SSSSH stands for the Secret Society for Serendipitous Service to Hal. SSSSH is a non-profit and non-revenue generating organization formed at Hiram College in March of 2003, and it is designed to encourage others to perform anonymous acts of kindness (SSSSHing) for total strangers (ego-free compassion).  SSSSHing has been discovered to bring about community unity, similar to what occurs during search and rescue operations after a tornado, but without a tragedy. It is proven to teach others through example the benefits of celebrating diversity. And best of all, it gives the poorest of the poor an opportunity to give to others, creating new realizations of joy and a special understanding into one of the many remarkable benefits of being human. SSSSH has been promoted by PEOPLE Magazine, CNN, abc Good Morning America, and the Discovery Channel - see SSSSH promotions. Start SSSSHing. SSSSH philosophies and discovered benefits are part of the book Modeling Future Heroes - A Practical Application to Human Values mentioned at the beginning of this page.
 

1. World-Wide Associations
   Modeling Future Heroes, in order to promote its business and educational seminars and to encourage others to participate in the G.R.E.A.T. program, has formed partnerships with many wonderful organizations. Hiram College, located in Hiram, Ohio, where SSSSH originated, is a proving ground for SSSSH activities. Also, Hiram College is currently the central location for many courses and research involving our hero's value system and the famed Tuskegee Airmen. 

Sparrow Village in South Africa, a special project of Carol A. Ruggie (one of our founders), is the origin of the Sparrow Village concept, and it has been adopted by G.R.E.A.T. in the promotion of their grass-roots entrepreneurs training program. Reverend Corine, founder of Sparrow Village, is an inspiration for all and serves as the cornerstone project for our international undertakings.

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It's What We Do

Our keynote speeches, seminars, workshops, and classes are not based on what world heroes of peace have done as on how they accomplished their incredible deeds.  Our goal is to share with you what we have discovered about these remarkable individuals and HOW they overcame seemingly impossible obstacles, repeatedly, and with peaceful solutions.

• Accomplished their many tasks under adverse conditions.
• Encouraged positive change through examples of excellence.
• Guided their actions based on internal values.
• Did not allow hardships to distract them from their goals.
• Peacefully handled conflict.

A few more years were devoted to teaching these concepts to various age groups, cultures, educational backgrounds, and levels of economic status. The results are amazing! We found the wonderful characteristics of our world’s heroes can be used as a role model, to teach values, leadership, and the problem-solving skills of heroes.

Modeling Future Heroes provides you the opportunity to study these characteristics and values and adapt them into your life using them as a guide for your business and personal relationships.  Perhaps you can become a role model to others; perhaps you can become a future hero!

Learn to Think Like a Hero!

• A solution to a problem must not interfere with the larger goal.
• The only time we can ever fail is if we quit.
• Obstacles are opportunities for growth and must be enthusiastically confronted.
• Each day is a battle for control; not for control over others, but for control over how we respond to them.
• Diversity may be the most valued and yet untapped resource in any organization.
• Demeaning others gives them power to rise above you.
• How you react to what happens to you determines your character.
• A true leader serves as a spokesperson for those less able to express themselves.
• Learn Tuskegee Airmen problem-solving and conflict-resolution methods.
• Recognize and overcome your detrimental instinctual behavior.
• Live by a hero's value system guiding you through life and crises situations.

New Terminology Developed from Our Research

• Instinct Self-Awareness
• Non-Instinctual Free-Choice
• Ego-Free Compassion
• Passive Excellence
• Self-Actualization Engagement
• Human-Values Implementation

Contact us

Roger Cram - Hiram College - Office: 330-569-5104
Home: 330-569-7962
Roger Cram email

 

Important Related Links to Our Activities

The Hiram College Home Page

Sparrow Village - the World-Famous Hospice for AIDS Children

Children of the Dumps - Nicaragua

The Tuskegee Airmen Home Page - North Coast Chapter