Practical Workforce Planning for HR Professionals

Brian is a learning and development professional with some 40 years of wide-ranging experience. Much of that time has been spent attached to the UK Ministry of Defence where he was employed in a specialist training and development role across all three armed services, but primarily with the Army. After leaving Defence in 1995 he worked in a freelance capacity in the UK on educational projects in the tertiary education sector and assisted industry and emergency services with the design of internal assessment systems. In 1998 Brian moved to New Zealand with his family and took up a post with the newly created training support division of the New Zealand Fire Service. Working initially on the creation of new training programmes he was selected to project manage an initiative aimed at the complete rebuild of the Service’s training and progression system. Moving on from the Fire Service he worked independently as a consultant, focusing particularly on the design, development and delivery of leadership and management skills training in New Zealand and across the South Pacific. In 2011 Brian took up his present post as Head of Learning and Development for an Australasian Pulp & Paper Company. He is currently working on the introduction of the Systems Approach to Training and the enhancement of leadership capability across the business.