Ingrid Martine

Before immigrating to the United States at age eleven, Ingrid Martine lived in Germany. Her fascination with human behavior began as an eight year old who read--under bed covers by flashlight and against strict maternal instructions--mythological stories and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. They fired her imagination and a hunger to understand people. Since Ingrid wanted to solve the puzzle of people losing their early enthusiasm for learning, she became an educator. Starting in academia--she has a Master's degree in French Literature and speaks three languages fluently--and then moving into the world of business--first as a consultant, then as an internationally certified executive,team, and life coach with clients in North America, Europe, and Australia--she got interested in unconventional models of learning. Her special interest and training is in the immunity to change most people experience and rarely shift.

While working as a teacher with inner-city at-risk youth who seemed to hate to learn, Ingrid started experimenting with and developing innovative educational models. Certain that a disdain for learning is unnatural, she submits that learning environments must help people--adults in corporate America included--get out of their own way. Ingrid Martine's ability to create rich learning environments was facilitated as much by non-traditional learning experiences like waitressing, horse and dog training, all of which required her to be "client-centered," as by her graduate work in psychology and experiential education design. The Un-Game is a novel whose characters work in such a rich learning environment. Her intention is to engage the reader in a learning process that supports exceptional effectiveness at work and transfers to life beyond work. Ms Martine lives with her husband, Joe,three horses, and two dog friends,near Austin, Texas.