Ken Lai was born in 1955 and grown up in Hong Kong.   He had studied and taught sociology at the University of Minnesota during the late seventies and eighties.  His PhD studies were concentrated on social organization, social and business psychology.  Ken had published articles about Chinese culture and family in the Journal of Gerontology and Journal of Marriage and Family.   When the microcomputer revolution started in the early 80’s, Ken had become a PC manufacturer and software publisher.   He has developed a business from zero to multi-million dollars business.  

Ken does not blindly believe in Feng Shui and other Chinese metaphysics systems.  He has learned it the hard way— he had suffered the negative effects repeatedly like hospitalization and employees revolt because of ignoring Feng Shui signals. 

Ken started reading Feng Shui and other Chinese metaphysics books as a leisure activity in the late eighties and gradually found that there is a limit on how much one can learn from books.  So he has flown to Hong Kong and Taiwan and learned from experienced masters there to get practical and hands-on experience. 

Ken still maintains close contacts with his teachers in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan to keep up-to-date with the latest discoveries and innovations.   He is proud of his collections of Feng Shui and metaphysics books and is known as a “book fanatic” among his peers.

Currently Ken practices Feng Shui in Minnesota, doing both residential and commercial consulting.  He is also a part-time professor at the Northeastern University here, teaching Feng Shui classes for realtors, architects, insurance agents and appraisers. Ken also does overseas consulting. 

As a Feng Shui teacher, Ken emphasizes independent thinking and practical experience.  Students are encouraged to think critically and not blindly following books and theories. Ken also promotes learning multiple Feng Shui methods instead of limiting oneself to only one or two methods.  He also teaches how to integrate different methods into one’s practice.

One picture is better than a thousand words.  Because of his computer background, Ken prefers using multimedia or visual materials to make complicated Feng Shui concepts easy to understand.  He also likes to develop shortcuts to help students memorize essential formula and concepts.

Unlike other practitioners who have only learned one or two Feng Shui methods, Ken has learned most of the popular methods and some secret ones.  He can apply situation-specific techniques that few other practitioners can do.  Ken often traces the origin of Feng Shui practices to ancient Chinese texts. With his advanced training in social sciences, business, knowledge of Chinese culture and fluency in the Chinese language, Ken is in a unique position to offer special insight to the practices and modernization of Feng Shui.