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John Lorriman |
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John has international experience as a training consultant, public speaker and writer. Amongst the countries he has worked and lectured in are Norway, Hong Kong, Turkey, Japan, Germany, the USA, Russia, Belarus, China, Finland, Austria, Greece, Italy, Malaysia and Syria. This included playing a key role in helping the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers to launch their Continuing Professional Development scheme in January 1996. He has had one book published in Japan in 1992 in conjunction with a Japanese co-author, and a second entitled 'Japan's Winning Margins - Management, Training and Education' published in May 1994 by Oxford University Press and co-authored with Professor Takashi Kenjo; this was reprinted as a paperback in 1996, and is currently being translated into Chinese by the Chinese Association for Continuing Engineering Education. Learning from the Japanese is a subject on which he has lectured widely around the world. In 1996 McGraw-Hill published the book Upside Down Management - Revolutionizing management and development to maximize business success' which he co-authored with Ron Young and Paul Kalinauckas. In 1997 his latest book 'Continuing Professional Development - a practical approach' was published by the Institution of Electrical Engineers. He is author of The Engineering Council's 'Continuing Professional Development - the Practical Guide to Good Practice', of which over 50,000 copies have been requested from around the world. He has followed this up by editing the follow-up thrice yearly CPD newsletter for The Engineering Council, 'CPD Link', circulation of which reached 70,000 over the first 10 issues. He is a past Chairman of The Institution of Electrical Engineers' Professional Development Committee, a founder member of the IEE's Training Committee and has held many other Institution positions; these include Chairing two of its Centres, twice being a member of Council and three years service on the Professional Board. In addition, he suggested, designed and piloted the IEE's Professional Development Record, nearly 20,000 of which have been sold, and which has been adopted under licence by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He was for several years responsible for training, internal communications and manpower planning for GEC's telecommunications business, as well as editing GEC's own corporate training newsletter. He is Chairman of the Professional Development Working Group of the International Association for Continuing Engineering Education, of which he is a Council and Executive Committee member. He is an Executive Committee Member of the Cambridge University Engineers Association. He is also responsible for IEE links with Belarus.
Book Revolutionizing management and development to maximise business success
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