John D. Brian, has been training and consulting in human resource development, manpower training and development, Management development, general management and organisational development for over 25 years. John regularly organises management programmes and untakes consultancies in the UK and Asia. He has been leading courses for the Malaysian Institude of management since 1975, and the Hong Kong management association since 1982. He was for many years a Senior Lecturer at Manchester Univesity where he taught undergraduate and postgraduate in Human Reasource management. He has helped develop and run Hong Kong's first international developement centre. He also established and developed one of UK's leading outdoor manangement development centres.