He founded the Arbinger Institute, which does consulting and training based on his academic work on the foundations of human behavior and self-deception.
[1] In 1967 he joined the faculty at Brigham Young University, where he served as chair of the Philosophy Department, director of the Honors Program, and dean of the College of General Studies.
Warner started the Arbinger Institute, in 1979, a leadership training and consulting firm,[4] which has produced Leadership and Self-Deception a book recommended in a 2018 CNBC article called "Best Business Books Recommended by Bill Gates, Barack Obama and other successful people.
In a review in Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, Tom Milholland says that Warner "uses an amazing blend of philosophy, theology, and psychology to provide insight and solutions..."[8] Dr. Warner was the founding curator and exhibit director of the Education in Zion Gallery at Brigham Young University until he retired in 2009.
The exhibition opened in the summer of 2008 and is in the Joseph F. Smith Building on Brigham Young University campus.