About the Author of The Guru Next Door
Wendy Dolber has been involved in Option Method training and consultation since the early 1970s. She met Bruce Di Marsico, the creator of the Option Method, in 1971 at a private institute devoted to training group psychotherapists and lay counselors. She was associated with Bruce for over twenty-five years as his student, associate, and close friend.
Following Bruce’s death in 1995, Wendy began working to create a platform to expand the dissemination of his teachings and writings. The Guru Next Door: A Teacher’s Legacy is the first of three books to be published. Option Method is the cornerstone of Wendy’s life and worldview. She has spent the last three decades immersed in the practice of the Method for her own personal growth and happiness. Additionally, she has worked with clients all over the world.
In her primary occupation as a leading affordable housing bond analyst, she uses Option Method principles to successfully navigate the challenging and ever-changing corporate environment. As a Managing Director for a major financial services company, Wendy has authored many articles on affordable housing finance. Through the years, she has written as well about the Option Method, most recently on OptionMethodNetwork.com. She also contributed to The Option Method: Unlock Your Happiness With Five Simple Questions, by Bruce Di Marsico, a posthumous publication edited by Deborah Mendel, Bruce’s widow.
Wendy has received ongoing recognition in the affordable housing industry for her work, and well as by The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, for fiction writing. She makes her home in northern New Jersey.