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John Burns and Winston Pond

John Burns gained an engineering degree in Metallurgy from the University of Melbourne and his MBA from McGill University, Montreal. He is managing director of Management Learning Pty Limited, management development consultants and a director of Belbin Australia Pty Limited.

Previously he was director of studies at the Australian Administrative Staff College (now the Mt Eliza Centre for Executive Education University of Melbourne Business School) where he was a member of the directing staff from 1972 to 1985.

From 1992 to 1995, he worked with staff from that organisation as associate professor at the China Australia Management Centre, Beijing, China. During eleven trips to China he has presented seminars on leadership, team and personal effectiveness in the rapidly changing Chinese business culture.

He spent ten years in the aluminium industry in production, IT, systems and marketing. He has taught in the UK at Templeton College, Oxford and at Henley Management College. He has been associated with the Oxford Strategic Leadership Program in Australia since 1989 and at Templeton College in 1990.

Since 1977, John has worked closely with Dr R M Belbin, the originator of Team Roles and of Interplace, an internationally accepted computer-based human resource advice system. In consulting in this field, he has counselled line managers and their advisers on the effectiveness of organisational relationships, change, teams and the match of people to jobs.

He has consulted extensively in the area of organisational behaviour and group techniques in both the public and private sectors in Australia and overseas. He has provided strategic and organisational development advice and mentoring to a large number of chief executives and senior managers.

Winston Pond is Consultancy Leader for Leadership Solutions Limited, a New Zealand-based development consultancy. The company works with organisations and individuals to develop and maintain team-based management systems.

One of New Zealand’s more experienced organisation development consultants, Winston has worked in education, training and development sectors for organisations throughout his career. Winston started his career as a teacher and then moved into the training and development area in 1980. Since then, he has focused on organisation performance issues, developing an interest and expertise in the role of teams in high performance organisations. In turn, this has led to an increasing focus on leadership, resulting in the establishment of Leadership Solutions in 1997. With his partners, Dr Dawie Gouws and Hester Gouws he has built Leadership Solutions into a specialist consultancy which represents Belbin Associates UK in New Zealand and uses Belbin concepts and tools to build teamwork and leadership skills.