: About Me

After serving in the Canadian Army and then spending ten years with the Canadian Ministry of Defence Production / Supply and Services as Senior Staffing Officer, Chief of Human Resource Planning, and Chief of Training, I joined the staff of Algonquin College as a Professor of Management Studies and later as Director of Continuing Education (Business). I operated as a private consultant for over twenty years with organisations ranging from the United Nations and the World Bank to the Canadian International Development Agency, Bell Canada, the Canadian Police College, De Beers Mining and the UK Department for International Development (DFID). Since 1997, have been a senior consultant with a Management Consulting Group.

I have over fourty years experience in project management, training, consulting, and research in Canada, the USA, India, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Bhutan, Lesotho, South Africa, Malawi, Nigeria, Nepal and The Gambia.

My passion is ...

International Development and politics

I know too much about ...

training and education

My parents always told me ...

work hard and believe in myself

My childhood ambition ...

To be PrimeMinister of Canada

My favorite memory ...

Too many to pick one

Why I write ...

For fun, to get message out and maybe profit

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Reading Friendly Fire

My first job ...

Surveyor helper and clothing sales

My best moment ...

Too many to pick one

My inspiration ...

My father and several priests/teachers

Travel > Travel Diaries & Adventures (Other) Travel experiences: Adventures into the unknown

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December 1973 Dear John Well, old friend, the calendar says that it is December and that Christmas has just gone past. Nothing that has happened since we came to Nigeria has been more disconcerting to us that the Christmas season. Raised in Canada, Christmas, to us, means snow, cold, bells on sleighs and a warm fire. It means merry old Santa riding in his sleigh over the rooftops. It meant turkey and all the trimmings. How, then, can this be Christmas when the temperature is 105F degrees? How can it be Christmas when we are spending most of the day at the side of the pool cooling off? How ...

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