Don Pearson is Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Inductive Automation, a supplier of web-based industrial automation software based in Folsom, California.
He was formerly a
management consultant and executive for the
Folsom, California
Folsom is a city in Sacramento County, California, United States. It is commonly known for Folsom State Prison, the song "Folsom Prison Blues" by Johnny Cash, as well as for Folsom Lake. The population was 80,454 at the 2020 census.
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publishing company,
e.Republic
e.Republic, Inc. is a Folsom, California-based research and media company. It publishes ''Government Technology Magazine'', a publication covering the role of information technology in state and local government, along with three other publication ...
. Pearson is perhaps best known for his role in training
Allstate Insurance Company
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managers and salesmen in the tenets of
L. Ron Hubbard's 'management by statistics' during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Pearson also set up a political action committee called the
Association of Citizens for Social Reform, the aim of which was to eliminate public support for mental health programs not approved of by
Scientology.
e.Republic
Together with fellow
Scientologists Dennis McKenna, Pearson operates
e.Republic
e.Republic, Inc. is a Folsom, California-based research and media company. It publishes ''Government Technology Magazine'', a publication covering the role of information technology in state and local government, along with three other publication ...
, a
media and event management enterprise primarily serving the government
information technology market, including ''
Government Technology'', ''
Governing'', and ''Converge'' magazines, which McKenna founded in 1983. Another e.Republic offshoot, the
Center for Digital Government
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, provides research and consulting to state and local governments. e.Republic relies heavily on
L. Ron Hubbard's writing as part of its employee training process.
Management by Statistics
Before joining e.Republic, Pearson worked as a management consultant in the
Sacramento area. His primary client was
Allstate Insurance, for whom Pearson taught Hubbard's 'management by statistics'. The training fostered the idea that workers who had low statistics should be penalized for low productivity, or for crossing a favored employee with 'up-statistics'. Some Allstate managers took such ideas too far, resulting in charges of "management by intimidation."
Pearson also pushed other Hubbard books and tapes while a consultant to Allstate. After a lengthy February, 1995 front-page story ran in ''
The Wall Street Journal'', describing training that included use of Scientology's '
Tone scale', Allstate banned and repudiated the courses. According to the article, more than 3,500 Allstate supervisors and agents participated in nearly 200 seminars conducted by Pearson's firm. Some agents who worked under managers who took the training courses eventually filed religious-discrimination and harassment charges with the
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
See also
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Church of Scientology
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References
External links
OurSites.org- 'About Myself', Don Pearson
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American management consultants
American Scientologists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from Folsom, California