Consultant – coach – trainer                                                                                       1993 - Now

Adept at growing interpersonal communications skills. Including public speaking (eg my Meta Communicator book), one-on-one speaking (interviews/sales), self-other-situation awareness (EQ, CRM, negotiations), optimism-stress (Buoyancy – Optimism book), play-creativity (Playful Living), teamwork (the Team Leader), leading oneself (The Fast Growth Leader) and the situation. Train to observe with some perspectives, then use the wider learning for better performance. Cultural awareness (Dragon's Play) thrives in this space. Normally the emphasis is how to learn and keep learning. Creatively into growing situation awareness. With better crisis handling (In The HotSeat).  Such learning is experiential, blended, and sense-making – intuitively, best with body and mind, beyond simple logic. Beyond reacting to simple Needs Analysis.

Extremely fast observer-learner - autodidact. Ambidextrous. Very much like to observe then tinker, agile - creatively generate options and improvements, into a working solution. I like to make things work; to help things, concepts, and to help people grow.  Adept troubleshooter.

Interacting with many ESL people for some years, especially Chinese, and including a Harbin Chinese wife. Very strong international capability. Mainly handle interpersonal skills – how-to-learn spoken English and body language, speeches-presentations-interviews, cultural awareness/diversity, resumes-job-skills, and confidence-optimism. Mainland Chinese have weaknesses in eye, voice, and body language.

Consulted in such areas as business opportunity - exploration, startup, development, close-down/sale. Eg: web design, ESL schools, kinds of import-export, web marketing. TCM diabetes footbath business (The Dao of Diabetes).

Adept at small group dynamics, over 10 years doing Toastmasters Club Rescue. Servant leader.

Have taught, coached, and prepared English for middle school, university, training schools, business and Business English, IELTS prep, project management, and other special needs.

Trained Chinese English teachers - 8 Zhiyuan/GoldenBridge schools in Harbin.  Dec, 08-Feb, 09

       Consulted creating faster-better results, happier teachers.

Teacher  Huamei Bond Intl, Ontario Canada High School in Guangzhou.                       Fall, 08

       Handled huge surge in new students. Setup Going-Abroad resource center. IELTS.

R&D Courseware Developer, Trainer –  Meten/Metro Intl English in Shenzhen.     Feb-Aug, 08

       Started R&D Dept. Wrote courseware for schools, VIP students, businesses.

       Later introduced new materials, teaching, teacher training, how-to-get new teachers.

Teacher  Witty International (Intl) English in Tianjin.                                        Winter, 07

       How-to improve Witty operations. Head Teacher. IELTS.

Trainer  Web International (Intl) English in Futian, Shenzhen                                       Fall, 07

       Started the first school in Shenzhen – trained staff, marketing, handled new school chaos.

International Relations Manager  USQ-SCNU Intl Accounting in Guangzhou. Winter-Spring, 07

College growth/changes, market development and exploration. Varied and substantial intercultural interactions. Discovered how-to expand College, while improving quality and profits.

Taught English and Problem Solving at USQ-SCNU and Kangda middle school, Guangzhou.

Created fast-learning middle school student teacher & peer teaching program.        Fall, Winter, 07

Married Chinese wife, March 2006, into China for a tour/honeymoon              Summer, 2006

Examined Y-12 aircraft (akin to Twin Otter) marketing business.                             Summer, 2006

Good potential, but adaptation and sales held back by cultural factors.

Examined clothing businesses (Guangzhou to Harbin/Russia; outdoor clothing to Canada)

Writer/Technical writer    All kinds of materials.                                                 1977- now

Business plans, manuals, guides, brochures, business cards, conference plans, agendas, speeches, introductions, drawings, books, course ware, etc.  Excellent mapmaker – ideas and things. Forest development, construction plans – roads, bridges, villages, docks, airfields. 

P. C. Softsmith    software development and support business                               1986-2002