General Information: Overview: Who We Are: Brent Shigeoka

Brent Shigeoka

While a student at the University of Southern California, Brent Shigeoka started Zen practice in 1978 at the Zen Center of Los Angeles under the guidance of Roshis Maezumi, Glassman and Merzel.

Brent is married to the former Teri Ann Tsuruya and together they have four children: Nicholas, Amanda, Carson and West.

After receiving his D.D.S from the Indiana School of Dentistry in 1985, he returned to Hawaii where he began practicing dentistry in partnership with his brother Mark Shigeoka . With the flourishing of their practice Wahiawa Family Dental Care, LLC through application of the Guerrilla Marketing principles of Levinson, in 1998, Brent retired from the active practice of dentistry to focus on the business aspects of the dental office which grew to include 5 associate dentists . In 1992 he established Pearl Family Dental Care, LLC founded upon the systems of marketing and management developed at the Wahiawa office. Both businesses currently employ approximately 45 individuals.

Brent adds that with constant emphasis on the balance of Family, Health, Leisure, Work, Spiritual and Study, he aimed to faithfully apply the teachings and principles of the Greyston Mandala; Jay Conrad Levinson, Jay Abraham Ð (marketing); Peter Drucker, W. Edwards Deming, Ferdinand Fournies Ð (management); Peacemaker Community Ð (Zen).Ê

With gratitude to his family and his teachers Roshis Aitken, Glassman, Maezumi and Merzel, Brent continues work on integrating business and Zen.

In May, 2005 he became a Founding Zen Entrepreneur in the Fellowship of Entrepreneurs of the Zen Peacemaker Family.