Extremely Low Integrity & Dishonest Businessman
Dr. Paul Drouin approached me at a conference to join his team as a meditation leader, quantum healer, and consciousness council member. After our verbal discussions of leading meditations and quantum healing sessions, he then created an agreement for website and smartphone app development that made no mention of our discussions about meditation or healing. While completing an accelerator program to develop this meditation platform, I noticed >2000 support emails for the community that had been ignored over 3 years. The global meditations consisted of members receiving an email from the founder requesting them to log onto a website and follow a guided meditation video. There is no interaction between the meditation leaders and members aside from marketing emails, and they are attempting to charge $750-4190 for meditation training for a bastardized form of Daoist Microcosmic Orbit meditation. They repeatedly requested work that was not discussed or contracted, including business development and R&D, and when I requested to review the agreement, I was ignored. They then terminated my role for "COVID Budget Cuts," and tried to get me to sign an amended contract to deliver a course for less than 10% of the market value and no royalties. They later breached my contract and tried to evade compensating me for >$25k of delivered work.
I was also contracted as a conference speaker to develop and host a meditation workshop. Dr. Paul Drouin then verbally solicited me to contribute to a meditation research study, which I agreed to in good faith for the workshop and event. The PhD student from his degree granting program that was leading the study was not competent in the scientific method, did not adhere to HHS policy for informed consent of disclosing additional costs for participation in the research study, and attempted to outsource EEG data analysis. Once I delivered this work for the meditation research study, they cancelled the Speaker agreement. The event ended up being hosted online and encountered technical difficulties, and had to be postponed. When I followed up with them about compensation for the work that I had delivered under the verbal agreement in good faith for the event, I was ignored and then received a Cease & Desist that denied that I contributed to the meditation research study and attempted to infringe on my rights to claim these R&D activities for tax credit.
Dr. Paul Drouin devalues his collaborators work and contributions using spiritual egotism, relies heavily on marketing, uses bait-and-switch tactics to secure work for free, and lacks integrity, honesty, and the ability to deliver on his verbal and contracted agreements. He is one of the most narcissistic and low quality collaborators that I have ever encountered in >15 years of my international, worldclass scientific research and education career. His verbal discussions hold no credibility, and he does not honor his agreements. Do not let Dr. Paul Drouin exploit your work and altruistic service.