Hollander Consultants

Hollander Consultants are those nice folks in Portland Oregon who said, "Oh, we have no connection to the Church of Scientology...."

The Latest Hollander developments--2/05--e-mail from their 'PR rep' Matt Bratschi

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In an interview with Prosperity magazine, Alan Hollander, president of Hollander Consultants, summarized the relationship between WISE, WISE members, their clients, and the Church of Scientology:

PROSPERITY: What is your objective as a WISE member at Hollander Consultants?

HOLLANDER: My objective is to get as much technology into the environment as possible because that is contributing to Clearing the Planet. In fact, our real product here at Hollander Consultants is clients who are winning with L. Ron Hubbard's Technology and reaching for more. We have gotten literally hundreds of people on the lines. In 1986 alone, we got 82 people from Hollander Consultants started on the Bridge. From March 1986 to March 1987 the income to [Scientology] organizations from our clients at Hollander Consultants has been $362,197. My feeling about this is that WISE members like Hollanders can have a great impact on Clearing the Planet in terms of dissemination (WISE 1987: 9).

In this case, Alan Hollander described one of the goals of Hollander Consultants as directing clients into Scientology/in an effort to support the movement's goal of "Clearing the Planet." Thus, [practice management companies] operate on behalf of Scientology, mobilizing resources of both money and new members towards its ideological ends.

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Hollander Consultants
Mr. Larry Silver
621 S.W. Alder Suite 200
Portland Oregon 97205

December 8, 1997

Re: Misrepresentation of Services

Dear Mr. Silver,

I spoke to you on the phone on or about November 5 of this year and we discussed the two contracts.  During that conversation we also discussed Hollander Consultants affiliation with the Church of Scientology.  You explained to me that your company was licensed to use certain management techniques developed by L. Ron Hubbard, and that your company wasn't part of the church.

I received a packet of materials in the mail last week, and just had a chance to open and examine it today.  Let's address the following points;

1.  The Standard Oxford Capacity Test.  This is the first tool the church uses to draw in people.  It can be accessed on their website. They present it as an IQ and personality test in their churches and orgs.  Of what use is this to me in my business?

An analysis was done on this test by three British psychologists in 1971.  Their conclusion was that there is "an extremely strong case for assuming it to be a device of no worth.  The profile apparently derived from completion of the OCA must consequently be negligible."  As far as the test being an adequate psychometric device, it "totally fails to meet the normally accepted criteria." My wife and I have enclosed a copy of the article this information comes from, this is on page 4 of 9.

Who will be grading this test and creating the profiles at Hollander Consultants?  Only the CoS uses, distributes and grades these tests.  It has no validity, no value, and no place in my business.

2.   The Tone Scale.  This was developed by Hubbard in his Dianetics
literature, and is also now used exclusively by the CoS.  It contains such interesting observations as an Enthusiastic person will be "near accident proof" and "nearly immune to bacteria."  This is science fiction crap, and also has no validity and no place in my business.

3.  The Success Through Communication Course.  This is the first set of courses that CoS uses after they analyze you with #1 above.  It might well teach us how to "face others without nervousness or fidgeting", but we don't care to sit and stare at someone else while they either stare back, or attempt to distract us by making faces for hours at a time. Once more, no value, unless we're trying to cross the 'bridge'.  Believe me, we're not interested.

4.  It's interesting also where your seminars and such are held.  The Celebrity Center for the CoS is located just blocks from your Portland address, and of course, Clearwater Florida is the headquarters for FLAG and the Sea Org.

In closing, let's be succinct-we feel you are a backdoor into the CoS,
and are using far more than just management materials developed by LRH. We refuse to allow our money to be funneled into a noxious cult that deceives and brainwashes people.

Therefore we expect a full refund.  In our opinion you have wilfully misrepresented your so-called 'management courses'.  These are nothing but Church of Scientology mind control and manipulation devices you are marketing, and you should be ashamed.

My wife and I are not raw meat.  We are now, and intend to remain, wogs in the eyes of the church.  The Bridge is non-existent, but to the extent that people are duped by the CoS, the Bridge leads straight into Hell.  We're not going there. 
J.L. Emanuel

V. Emanuel

cc: Doug DeRouchie
      Allen Jackson
      Bill Hickey
      Christine Gray, Attorney at Law

Note that of the $16,000 paid for the 'business consulting' that Hollander did for our optical store, $7600 of it was paid to Hollander Mgt Services. This was then paid to the LRH Library for licensing fees--this is the money that went directly to the Church of Scientology.

So, what is that-- 49%? But they're not 'part of the Church', right? Do you spell it bologna or baloney?

I rec'd this anonymously a few days after this page was 'advertised' on ars, from someone claiming to be a former Hollander Consultants employee. It's interesting--especially this part.

The truth is that Hollander Management Services is something that Fred King and Larry Silver came up with to escape paying WISE. They did this to try and get the "franchising fee" lowered - comparing it to other successful operations like McDonalds - showing that those fees were much less than what Hollander Consultants was paying. The request was denied by WISE.

Then they separated everything - Hubbard courses were for Hollander Consultants. Other things like job descriptions packs were for Hollander Management Services. They felt that they shouldn't have to pay WISE a percentage of income from things that were not Hubbard's ideas. I think that they have changed the name of the "other company" now. It was this secret we had to keep from WISE. We separated all the statistics so that WISE wouldn't know what was going on. I thought it was strange that we couldn't just say what was going on. But it was because of the owners' fear of WISE and what they might do. I wonder how they hid it at their 6 month checks at Flag!.

Although that much of our money went to the cult, paragraph J of the contract we signed states; 'DOCTOR understands and Acknowledges that CONSULTANT uses the Hubbard Management System (TM), developed by L. Ron Hubbard, author, educator, and founder of the Church of Scientology, in CONSULTANT'S program of professional practice management consultation and training. DOCTOR also understands and acknowledges that Hollander Consultants is a privately owned company separate from and not part of the Church of Scientology.'

Well, DOCTOR (My husband isn't a doctor) had already taken their word for that. What he and I didn't realize is that Scientologists define words differently from normal people. 'Not part of the Church' to them means 'We give them all or most of your money and teach you all their crap and nothing you can use in the real world, and then try to talk you into joining.'

Of course, our year-long fight to get our money back, which began with the letter at the top of this page, was the reason they never tried to get us to join the cult.

A former Hollander Consultants Employee posted this on ars early in 2002

I worked at Hollander Consultants for 4 years. Hello to Valerie Emanuel if you read this. I was working there when you came. I even talked to you on the phone a few times. I remember I felt really good because for some reason you liked talking to me. But it was scary, too because you are very sharp and asked tough questions, and I don't like being dishonest. I read on your website that you thought that things had been changed around just for your visit. Well, you were right. We hid all the books that were too Scientology - like Science of Survival, Intro to Scientology Ethics, etc., and even took down LRH's picture from the course room to keep you from having any "ammo". Seems that you got plenty anyway.

I e-mailed her. Here's a portion of the some of our correspondance, placed here with her permission.

That doesn't matter. But your letter made me cry. To know that I made any impression while my husband & I were out there. I was TERRIFIED nearly the entire time, scared of the church, scared of the material--fortunately this was the experience that got me over my fear of Scientologists.

You definitely made an impression on me. It's funny that you said you were terrified, because I felt the same way about you and your husband coming. It was a lot of worry because I had no idea what you were like except you were "rabidly antagonistic"! But a lot of my fear was about Hollander Consultants being found out for what it really is: a front for the church, or maybe more like a funnel into it. I don't know how many times I said that Hollander Consultants was not connected to Scientology, that one of the owners was Jewish, blah, blah, blah. Lies! Larry is technically Jewish by birth, but that's all. That was always a great one to pull out - "Isn't everyone there Scientologists?" "Oh no, Mrs. Smith, one of our owners is Jewish." Thinking back to that makes me feel ill. Ugh!