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A native of Los Angeles, Kurt A. Krueger lives what he teaches and teaches what he lives.  He has won 16 medals in four International Senior Olympic swim championships.  Mr. Krueger has taught Peak Performance Training around the world for elite athletes/coaches, performing artists, business people, and others.  His goal is to have everyone physically and mentally fit throughout the 21st Century.  He has been interviewed on Radio/TV and for the print media on four continents. He has coached numerous world-record holders for San Fernando Valley swim schools, was a member of Glendale College and Cal St. Uni. - Los Angeles faculties of Psychology and/or Physical Education.  He is an internationally published bestselling author, including Bestseller, "Winning Ways for Living", exclusively on Amazon, photographer, lecturer and corporate consultant. Mr. Krueger’s interest in Peak Performance Practices developed when he met a Master of these sciences in 1974.  His integrative learning whas been tested as a passenger on a JAL plane hijacked by the Japanese Red Army terrorists, as an inner-city ghetto school history teacher threatened by student carrying a drawn gun. Practicing PPT concentration technique kept his mind relaxed and focused at the height of the crisis. From these kinds of crisis situations, Kurt was recognized for his ability to cope with them and sought out to teach Stress Management techniques and ultimately, led to a series of highly successful presentations in Southern California culminating with a program at the United Nations in New York City and the University of Oxford Medical school (UK) Mr. Krueger also began training athletes for Peak Performance.  This developed into a ‘systems’ program to strengthen a person’s body, mind and spirit.  The use of these techniques had enabled him to win numerous medals in the Senior Olympics. Kurt founded the Institute of Sports Psychology in 1982 in Bombay and developed into an organization with four more offices in London, Melbourne, Tokyo and Los Angeles.  The following year he founded Success Systems International to develop programs and practices specific to companies and performing artist’s needs.  The current office is in Los Angeles, CA. He has presented programs for the United States Military Academy, Young Presidents Organization, other major corporations, major international conferences such as, a keynote speech, Stress Management in Sports and Business, at the 1985 World Congress on Sports Psychology in Copenhagen; Fitness for the 21st Century at the 1988 Olympic Scientific Congress in Seoul; and Technology with a Heart workshop at the 1990 International Conference on Technology and Education, Brussels; and Strengthening Character at the 2002 Conference of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education Recreation and Dance.  He has been published nearly 50 times internationally in magazines and journals. Kurt is a National Board Certified Teacher in ‘secondary’ Physical Education and served on the Los Angeles Unified School District’s Physical Education Advisory Board, 2000-2014. Currently, Kurt is actively involved in The World Fest, a world-wide event bringing positive change to our planet using the performing arts, cooperative play, multi/media, “spiritual upliftment”,  character development throughout our society.