John is an independent consultant and researcher with wide experience of change in both the academic and private sectors. His consultancy work includes two years in Sweden working for Volvo, Alpha Laval and a number of educational institutions and four years in an Industrial Training Centre for an oil company in Saudi Arabia.
John previously worked as CPD Manager at the University of Oxford and has also been involved with work based learning at the University of Bradford. For a number of years he worked at the Institute of Lifelong Learning at the University of Sheffield where he was a lecturer in Human Resource Management and Course Director of the MEd in Training and Development.