Unusually, 'helping people to learn' is all I have ever done.

At the age of 21 I was told to go into a room of managers who had been managers since before I was born, and make them better managers in a day. Well there's more to it than that, but that's essentially the way it was. I survived that day, and have been doing that and more for the past 29 years.

I was a management trainer in local government and later the road transport industry thoughout the 1980s, and since 1992 I have been self-employed, which I like as I can choose with whom I work, and just as important with whom I do not.