About

About Our Company

We are based in Nottingham England which is famous for a number of things including Robin Hood. We still enjoy Nottingham Castle and a Sheriff of Nottingham; so was Robin really a myth?

Nottinghamshire has seen considerable change in the last 30 years, from its roots in the heavy manufacturing industry, mining, fine lace, and hosiery. Now towards top end IT, finance, and an ever expanding service sector. This trend is set to continue.

In 2005 Nottingham was designated as a Science City in recognition of its rich scientific heritage, industrial base, and role as a leading research centre.

Nottingham with two world class universities has since embarked on a wide range of business, property, knowledge transfer and educational initiatives, in order to build on its growing reputation, as an international centre of scientific excellence. For more information click the “About” link in the header bar above.

Our Company Name

England has always been famous for its great mix of cultures and for beautiful countryside, but less known for its heritage in the manufacture of fine bone china, particularly in North Staffordshire, the company principal’s home county.

Since the early part of the 18th century, fine china has been manufactured in North Staffordshire, and one of its many local companies (circa 1745) is Wedgwood, (founded by Josiah Wedgwood 1730 – 1795). Wedgwood, England’s finest china company, has been synonymous with beauty, craftsmanship and innovation for almost 250 years. Founded by Josiah Wedgwood I, known as the ‘father of English potters’, Wedgwood created the ornamental wares black basalt and Jasper for which the company is still renowned and perfected Queen’s Ware, the company’s celebrated cream coloured ceramic body.

Wedgwood, has been referred to as a genius for his design and cutting edge manufacturing techniques, today he would be referred to as Creative and Innovative. The imposing figure of Josiah Wedgwood – the potter, scientist and industrialist who created one of the world’s first luxury brands in 1759 and with it a device for measuring the heat inside ovens. Royal families of Europe were demanding his stuff long before it became the staple of wedding lists and golden wedding anniversaries.

The Wedgwood company, still has an international reputation and brand for producing fine china, but one name in particular is Wedgwood Blue, also known as Jasper Blue is synonymouse with our company, the blue colour on this site is Jasper, because of its distinctive colour and texture, this is where our company name originates.

Our Services

We offer a range of ethical products, systems and service solutions geared to 21st centuary Human Capital challenges.

Consultancy Services

We define consultancy as the creation of value for your organisation, through the application of knowledge transfer techniques and assets to improve performance value. This is achieved through the rendering of objective advice and / or the implementation of business solutions. Our consultants are usually experts or a professional in a specialist field with a wide knowledge of a particular subject area.

Specialist consultants work for Jasper International and some are highly specialised, and engage with our multiple and changing clients. Thus, our clients have access to a deeper level of expertise than would usually be feasible for them to retain in-house.

Business consulting indicates both the industry and practice of helping organisations improve their performance primarily through the analysis of existing business problems and development of plans and people for improvement.

Organisations hire the services of our business consultants for a number of reasons, including gaining external (and objective) advice and access to the consultants’ specialised expertise.

The Jasper International Virtual Learning Academy UK

The Jasper International Group Virtual Learning Academy is a global platform that delivers UK recognised educational awards and qualifications for international students in an innovative way using web enabled virtual learning technology and high quality, proven learning materials. It has been designed to provide cost effective 100% online virtual-learning solutions for professional career development, acquiring practical business skills and learning for personal development. The prospectus of qualifications and courses is created by specialists in their field and are all certificated, which means that learners get acknowledgement of their learning achievement.

Our Products

Jasper International sees itself is one of the leading education training providers in the United Kingdom and growing internationally, and along with our partners in education promotes and delivers high quality individually tailored in company programs worldwide, delivered by specialists. We provide a number of business and management skills courses from operational to a strategic level. Jasper International takes a pride in having a slightly different approach to performance based skills development using our own competency modelling techniques.

Our methodology is suitable for those organisations that are facing road blocks with a current competency initiative or looking for an accelerated implementation of a new competency programs by linking competency systems directly to work outputs. Maybe you are not a large organization and need a system which is simple and effective, perhaps we can help here too?

Our Systems

We have available a number of strategic business improvement systems designed to help enhance your organisations processes:

Jasper International is a customer centred company. We build solutions around a client’s unique need:

• Business Assessment Solutions
• International Consultancy & Training
• Behavioural Risk Management
• Leadership and Management
• Accredited Qualifications
• Competence Assessment Deployment
• Systems Design & Process Management
• Knowledge and Wisdom Management
• Strategic Assessment

The Service You Can Expect

Jasper International listen and hear what our clients needs are, you can expect a high level of skill and knowledge coupled with cutting edge people and business development tools. Our client care is second to non with a balanced understanding of business and human capital requirements in levering organisational and personal improvements.

Testimonials

We have engaged Jasper International for many projects and training activities, their staff have excellent up to date business skills, required for a fast changing market place, and with a high degree of focus on quality and customer service. I am very impressed!
– Mustpha Alangarli Managing Director Innovative Leaders Corporation Dubai

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Our courses include basic, intermediate and advanced delivery, and specialized management and leadership development, and our training and consultancy services in the latest competence based management processes and systems design.

Our training is customized specifically to the unique requirements of each customer through our Pre-Training and Consultancy Assessment Processes, so that we can deliver training or consultancy that meets our client’s unique needs both in terms of content and scheduling.

With sufficient notice we are capable of delivering our courses or consultancy projects in any location in the world. Although all courses and project consultancy are delivered in English we will try to accommodate any language problems if we can.

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Leadership

Marshall Potts is the Chairman of Jasper International Professionally an international business and leadership consultant with a background in organisational and occupational psychology. Marshall is the Chairman and Principle of Jasper International Group, an International Business and Leadership Group with offices in the UK, India and Middle East. With a background in Organizational and Occupational Psychology, he is a dedicated management and business development specialist with extensive experience of Human Capital and Knowledge Management, Organizational and Personal Development and has over thirty years experience in the Commercial, Public and Higher Educational Sectors. Over the years Marshall has had ongoing relationships with some prestigious Universities in the UK including Durham (Graduate Testing), York (Leadership Healthcare), Nottingham (Stress & Mental Toughness), and Leicester (NHS Medical School Commissioning of Post Graduate Medical Education). He has over twenty years experience of running Senior Management Leadership Development Programmes both in industrial / commercial and public sectors. He is very skilled, and a specialist in Competence Based Management Systems (both developing competencies and methodologies, and the assessment processes) including the deployment systems. His experience extends to a wide-ranging knowledge of leadership and management development models, including technical competencies and performance management systems design and improvement. He is a specialist in social and organizational engagement research, systems thinking, improvement science and knowledge management. Along with leadership skill, he believes an understanding of these areas is critical in any organization faced with the considerable challenges of transformational change and disruption. Marshall has an extensive range of practical experiences and skills around personal and organisational development. Specifically experienced in behavioural based risk management, a little known but an important aspect in business excellence dedicated to preventing unintended events from taking place. Marshall is the Chief Architect of Jasper International and he is supported by a great team of gifted Business Systems and Knowledge Engineering Experts.

Dr Greg Samways International Director of Systems Dr. Greg Samways is professionally a Consultant Petroleum Geologist a trainer and knowledge manager, currently offering technical consultancy and training worldwide on a range of upstream subjects from exploration to reservoir modelling and field management. In recent years, his interest has focused more and more on the capture and dissemination of best practices, which lead him to create the “Workflow Pro” process mapping, knowledge management and competence development tool, which Jasper is now using at the core of its Human Capital Development services. Environmental Scientist: Greg has also researched extensively on coastal processes (as part of the UK-based Land-Ocean-Interaction-Study; LOIS), including investigating the potential for carbon and nutrient storage in coastal depositional systems during sea-level rise. Greg brings a clarity and focus to our work at Jasper, and is not afraid to challenge what we are doing, why we are doing it and how we should best do it! His years of providing technical petroleum geoscience consultancy, project management and professional training services to major international clients worldwide has given Greg a great insight into business practices, across a range of companies and cultures. This insight has enabled Greg to contribute significantly to the strategic development of Jasper and to our sister companies Jasper International, India and Middle East North Africa also to the products, systems and services that we at Jasper offer.

Cara Samways International Commercial Director Cara is Jasper International’s Commercial Director and has many years experience in this area, having previously been Commercial Director/Company Secretary for a large international consultancy company, with Head Offices in the UK.   Responsible for the commercial operations across the globe, Cara was also instrumental in setting up and staffing the offices in the Middle East and the USA, and developing local relationships.  Cara’s experience includes contract negotiations and re-negotiations with major worldwide oil companies, such as BG, BP, Eni, LASMO, Marathon, Nimir, PDO, Schlumberger and Shell, and managing relationships with partner companies and external suppliers. Cara currently holds the position of Commercial Director/Company Secretary for a geoscience consultancy/knowledge management company. Cara will utilise her experience across Jasper International with a special focus on the development of commercial services.

Dr Param Singh CEO Jasper International India Dr. Param Singh professionally a medical physician and whose association with Jasper International is primarily to extend the outreach of Jasper to the Indian Subcontinent, and to run Jasper International – India (JII) as Chief Executive of the Indian JI arm. Param significantly contributes to our innovative thinking on strategies for establishing the Jasper brand as different to conventional organizations, in having values based on ethical practices and leading the way on modern businesses fit for a new purpose. Param started his career as a clinician soldier in the Indian Army and is still a practicing physician, he moved on to spend a long time in one of the largest clinical laboratories in India where he excelled in quality assurance, laboratory and hospital accreditation, human resource training, development and knowledge management. He brings to Jasper a strength born out of commitment and energy, selflessness, and an unconventional approach to life and business. He conveys to everyone a great deal of conviction in everything that he does in his career and life.

Ian Wilson Operations Director UK Ian is our Operations Director with primary responsibility for our UK and European business. He is an experienced change expert having experience at a senior level in both the public and private sectors. He operated as senior executive in Quality Management within the UK Royal Mail with extensive responsibilities for engaging with a multi skilled, culturally diverse multi million pound operation. Managing quality and change projects with a cost benefit ratio of £50million/£117million.He was particularly responsible for the risk side and compliance with regulatory authorities. Ian’s responsibilities is directed in three main areas. Growing the UK and European business. Consulting and advising on the operational quality and strategic direction of the Group. Ian is particularly skilled in engagement, coaching and integrated change management for individuals, teams, business units and organisations.

May Surgeoner MA International Marketing Director May Surgeoner is our International Marketing Director with extensive expertise in Government Funded Business Development. May will share her knowledge and experience across the group but will have a special focus on the development of business services in Sub-Saharan Africa.May brings extensive experience of the education sector having spent 9 years with University for Industry (Ufi / learndirect), the world’s largest Government Funded E-learning Organisation. In her position as Operations Director for Individuals, she was responsible for the delivery of employability and basic skills qualifications throughout the UK through a 700 strong supply chain and a contract delivery target value in the region of £75m – and with a direct accountable budget of ÂŁ25m. Aligned with this delivery was planning, commissioning , managing and motivating supply chains to deliver to target. In the last year May’s role at Ufi was Head of Government Accounts which included bidding for Government Funded Tenders in the Skills and Welfare Sectors. Prior to Ufi, May worked in the NHS, Local Government and for a variety of commercial organisations. In South Africa she was responsible for the services of SAFTO (South African Foreign Trade Organisation) across the Western Cape and Namibia. May holds a MA in Marketing and Diplomas in International Marketing and Management as well as E-learning Management. She is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. A specific area of expertise is developing a supply chain for delivering e-learning she was responsible for the supply chain modelling of Ufi’s expansion into 37 prisons of all categories across the UK as well as integrating e-learning into client training programmes and other client journeys such as welfare to work. Public Service Review published an article written by May which asks whether e-learning in prisons can play a significant role in re-building the lives of offenders.Born in South Africa, May is particularly interested in using her expertise to bring better employability opportunities and basic skills development to indigenous populations through e-learning in order to improve their life chances.

Specialists Advisory Team

Dr. Farida Virani Dr. Farida Virani is Jasper Internationals Specialist Advisor in Applied and Fundamental Ethics she has a rich experience of around two decades. Her expertise ranges in various areas like research, consulting, business and public service activities. She has gained a respectable reputation as an academician and a corporate trainer. She is keenly interested in various areas of â€�Ethics’ both fundamental and applied. Dr. Virani believes in â€�Doing Well by Doing Good’ and looks for opportunities to translate this management practice into theory and vice versa. Dr Virani’s core areas of expertise are related to Human Resource Management particularly in the ‘Education Sector’. With a PhD in the Management of Education and an experienced Director of HR at the National Board with the Agakhan Education Services and thereafter as a Consultant and Director in charge of a Management Institute in Mumbai. She also holds a recently appointed position as Head of HR at MET Business School. Dr. Virani has a strong grounding in best practise, that is focused on helping achieve ‘excellence’ in educational institutes.

Dr. Simon Dodds Dr. Simon Dodds is Jasper Internationals Specialist Advisor on Improvement Science [IS] and Value System Design [VSD] and will be instrumental in how Jasper is designed and organised and how its services are applied. A Consultant Surgeon and trained software engineer with 30 years of experience. Simon discovered the Three Wins® principle over the course of a five year programme of continuous improvement of the outpatient service at his hospital. His team was rewarded with two national innovation awards for service improvement in 2004 which provided the stimulus to learn more about the Science of Improvement. In 2007 he published “Three Wins: Service Improvement using Value System Design” which outlines the Three Wins® approach. Simon has tested and applied the methods to every part of his clinical practice and has consistently demonstrated quality, delivery and productivity improvements. “Value System Design is different from, yet complementary to, incremental improvement methods. VSD starts with specifying exactly what a service needs to look like in the future if it is going to provide improved safety, quality, delivery and affordability. It then builds the design directly to meet that required specification – without error or waste – and from that a planned series of logical, rational, measurable and manageable steps. Through this process the specification is assured before the service is even launched.”

David Rigby David Rigby has 25 years experience in 17 countries.   He has worked with Coopers Lybrand Deloitte (PWC), CSC Computer Sciences and James Martin (Head-Strong).  He is a Fellow of Institute of Consulting, and a Certified Management Consultant. In Business Transformation (and Change Management and has worked with many clients including Abu Dhabi Municipality, Hong Kong Telecom, Nynex, Shell, Mobil Oil, Hong Kong Telecom, Wiltshire County Council and numerous banks including Citibank. He is UK Office of Government Commerce qualified as a trainer in change management. As a seasoned Project and Programme Manager he is a Practitioner in Prince2 and Managing Successful Programmes is MSP qualified applying these general principals in very pragmatic way. He has worked for Companies House, Lloyds TSB and has general consulting experience such as rescuing a call centre Programme in India and devising and managing a 250 event international training program. He has managed international remote consulting resource for an international consultancy. As Customer Service Expert for Abu Dhabi Municipality David brought the services offered by the government in Al Gharbia in line with international best practice ISO and EFQM, ready to expand into multi media services. He also trained 100 staff with Arabic support and. David developed and publicly delivered training about �knowing your customer’ based upon personality profiling, NLP, emotional intelligence, resilience and positive psychology. For Headstrong (James Martin) David helped develop and delivered Information Engineering methodology and has expertise and experience in Data Modelling, Process Modelling, BPR and Strategy David was Regional Chair of Institute of Consulting for six years organising 20+ social and training events annually.  He delivers CMI’s consulting skills qualification by classroom or coaching. He managed a committee of volunteers and relations with head office and developed events and training to develop young entrepreneurs skills in consulting and presenting.

Ian Rosam Ever wondered why it is that after something has gone wrong, be it a loss of a customer or sale, a product or process failure, an accident, a significant disaster, or any other example of poor performance, that subsequent investigation always show that the indicators of risk existed before the unfortunate event?  Of course, by the time poor performance appears in KPIs and graphs, it is too late – we can’t undo this poor performance. Ian is Senior Advisor to Jasper International on Corporate Risk we look at risk differently by focusing on behaviour. Ian and his colleagues specialise in identifying the level of risk, often invisible, that exists in all organisations and processes to the delivery of objectives, drivers of performance, governance and Standards – i.e. to planned performance or of unintended events. This unique behavioural approach is based upon understanding the impact of what people do or achieve not what they say they do or write down or record.  It isn’t a gloried perception based survey asking people about what happens but an intelligent evidence-based assessment approach delivered through Jasper as a  Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery model. This helps Jasper translate the impact of how people behave into a measure of risk to the delivery of objectives, providing managers and leaders with pragmatic information that they can act upon before the poor performance takes place. Jasper assessments can cover virtually any topic and be designed and delivered as either one off events or as a continuous and automated activity providing real time data.  Many case studies exist including programmes accredited by a UK Regulator.

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Your Vision Our Mission

Our Vision

Developing your Human Capital improving its performance and keeping you competitive is our primary objective. We help our clients redefine their performance through people engagement and development, new sciences, technology and techniques, process improvement and cutting edge products and supportive services. We help our clients develop their human and business capital effectively in order that they can meet and respond quickly to the fast changing environment and marketplace.

Our Mission

To provide professional Human Capital and Business Service Solutions that achieve improved business practices for our clients by utilizing the key elements of Engaging with People, Enhancing Culture and Enabling the True Value of Technology, Creativity and Innovation.

We achieve this through focusing on four principle drivers:

• Consistency
• Quality
• Service
• Supply

We apply this by our five values which underpin these drivers:

• Professionals who are – Reliable, Honest, Knowledgeable, Informative, Experts and Masters in their Fields
• Our Responsiveness is – Engaging, Consultative, Adaptable, Flexible, and Committed
• Collaborative in nature – Independently Thinking, Friendly, Open, Transparent, Supportive, and Inclusive
• Our Ambitions are – Challenging, Motivating, Creative, Innovative, Developing, and Driven by Purpose
• Our People are Diverse- Global Operating, Multi-cultural, Multi-sector, Multi-disciplinary and with Mutual Respect

More on Our Values see the Company Values and Beliefs Page.

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Our Values and Beliefs

Personal Ethics – An Essential Ingredient of Leaders of Tomorrow. The word ethics as called ethicus in Latin and ethikos in Greek, stems from the word ethos which means the science of morals. A simple definition of ethics is: a set of principles of right conduct. Ethics serve as guidelines for analysing â€�what is good or bad’ in a specific scenario. They create a framework for determining right versus wrong, and represent the core value system for every day problem solving. Ethics are the systematic, rational reflection upon a choice of behaviour and can be taught.

Personal ethics are not a conventional set of laws that are passed on from generations by birth; they grow and are crafted over time. Personal ethics are the moral foundation based on values, on which individuals construct their lives. Contributing factors towards their development are family influence, religious beliefs, culture, personal experiences and internal reflection.

• All businesses operate on the basis of core values – implicit or explicit
• These include business values and ethical values

Close customer relationships, and creatively developed products and services, are defining characteristics of Jasper International. We deal in the business of helping organisations to become healthy places in which to work, and ethical places in which to trade.

Central to the company vision and values is to grow the idea that business can be ethical and very profitable at the same time. Taking the moral high ground has its difficulties and risks so there will be challenges, but we believe that organisations and the people in them will want to be part of and be associated with something which has and is built upon principles. Embedding ethical values into the way any organisation operates is a challenging and lengthy process; doing so effectively requires patience, consistency and vision. Trust is an essential enabler of successful and effective relationships in any personal or business context. Understanding and managing trust is a critical competency for individuals or organisations that take their ethical values seriously. This thinking is based upon two guiding principles, 1. that business has a deeper purpose beyond maximizing profits and shareholder value, and 2. that business is managed to optimize the value for all of the interdependent stakeholders and because of the interdependent nature of these stakeholders this strategy will result in a higher shareholder value.

We believe that leadership is the productive and moral application of influence and as a leader, you have to take personal responsibility for the organisation’s VALUES. Ours is how we can make this organisation and others as HUMAN as the people that work in them. Leadership therefore is the productive and moral application of influence.

After years of working in many companies both, corporate and public, and with the rapid changes that we all have seen economically and socially it has become apparent that extremes don’t work. We have a core values base that we believe works for us and would work for others:

People come to work with the intent of giving their best, but somehow ‘work’ unwittingly conspires to undermine people’s capability, their spirit and enthusiasm. This will change when (a) the cultural environment switches from an expectation of ‘conformance to rules’ to ‘performance from accountability’ and (b) when people see that they have an opportunity to behave differently.

All people in work are ‘volunteers’ – they don’t have to come. World-class organizations respect the lives of the people who have freely chosen to come and work, and create an environment that enables people to give their best. Emotional satisfaction from a valued job well done is greater than monetary compensation for time-served.

Conscious leadership is leadership which brings out the strengths that are in people, it is leadership that recognizes that when we hire people to work in a company we can of course buy their time and intellect and buy their work but we cannot buy their creativity, motivation and innovative abilities, these are GIFTS that employees give to the company. When the individual passion matches the corporate purpose it is this that results in profits of all kinds – it is well-being, it is happiness, it is environmental protection, it is all of those things.

It is really not a holistic treatment it is more a company way of life.

‘Performance’ is a combination of both delivery of results and the way the Values have been lived out. Principle- and Values-Based Organizations secure long-term good performance over those organizations that are only numbers-based and aggressively chase short-term targets.

Jasper International

‘Relationships are Everything’. In business, nothing will succeed without strong interpersonal relationships among work colleagues, clients, suppliers – in fact with everyone.

Relationship maturity is an attitudinal approach not a tactical expedient, and comes from a strong culture that reflects the value of relationships as being greater than the bottom-line. The bottom line is, of course, important but needs to be the outcome of relationships. Relationship-orientation is the biggest differentiators between high-performing businesses and those that struggle.

We aim to ‘bring humanity back to work’. It is a sad reflection that many people seem to live two lives:

• One at work of necessity, to pay for one’s outside work.
• Our belief is that a ‘human’ workplace encourages best performance and a balance in all aspects of life.

“If people like you, they’ll listen to you. But if they trust you, they’ll do business with you” Zig Ziglar

We achieve this, by focusing on our three business principles:

• Helping to Engage with People (Engendering Cooperation)
• Enhancing Climate and Improving Work Cultures (of Values Based, Results Orientated Environments)
• Enabling True Value (of People, Technology, Creativity and Innovation)

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Personal Ethics – An Essential Ingredient for Leaders of Tomorrow

Ethics as called in Latin is Ethicus and in Greek Ethikos, stems from the word �Ethos’ which means the science of morals. A simple definition of ethics is: “a set of principles of right conduct”. Ethics serve as guidelines for analyzing “what is good or bad” in a specific scenario.   They create a framework for determining “right” versus “wrong”, and represents the core value system for every day problem solving. Ethics is the systematic, rational reflection upon a choice of behavior and it can be taught.

Personal ethics are not a conventional set of laws that are passed on from generations by birth; they grow and are crafted over time. Personal ethics are the moral foundation based on values, on which individuals construct their lives. Contributing factors towards its development are; family influence, religious beliefs, culture, personal experiences and internal reflection. Personal convictions and values form the most effective basis for moral and ethical behavior. Many define personal ethics as their inner voice or as �conscience’.

Can Ethics be taught to our budding leaders of tomorrow? It is heartening for all educationists to note that the answer is an assertive â€�yes’. Harvard psychologist, Lawrence Kohlberg stated an individual’s growth in the ethical dimension happens through three levels, pre conventional, conventional and post conventional. Generally, students in higher learning institutes are adults at the conventional stage, wherein their right and wrong are based on group loyalties: loyalties to one’s family, loyalties to one’s friends, or loyalty to one’s nation. Among the many factors that stimulate ethical development to the next i.e.; post conventional stage, the most critical dynamic is â€�education’. Kohlberg’s research proved that it made a huge difference when students took courses in ethics, which challenged them to look at issues from a universal point of view and helped promote universal ideals of justice, human rights and welfare.  The critical note worthy point here is – there is an interconnectedness of cognitive and moral growth. Ethical development happens over a period of time and ethics can be taught and learned.

Do personal ethics impact business and social decisions? They most certainly do. The factors that influence ethical behavior are; culture, structural variables like leadership, rewards etc and most importantly the individual characteristics like personal values, ego strength and locus of control. Ethical conduct is influenced by moral intensity, ethical sensitivity and situational influences. Ethical sensitivity requires empathy and being able to construct cause-consequence chains of events.  Ethical judgment requires a mature or sophisticated ability to judge actions. Since ethical decisions involve making value judgments, problems arise when individual’s personal values are misaligned with institutional or social values resulting in ethical dissonance. When the ethical dissonance involves fidelity to one’s promises, the pain is acute. Sound ethical decision making, provides opportunities to affect our own happiness and that of the people around us. This result in peace and happiness that are so threatened in today’s tumultuous, ethically-challenged times.

The IPL row, Commonwealth Games, 2G spectrum scandal, land allotment allegations and the Adarsh housing society scam — the skeletons of corruption keep tumbling out. On the other hand the tremendous support generated for the Jan Lokpal Bill reiterates the demand for an ethical corruption free civil society. But as quoted by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, â€�Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn’t the will to do what is right’. Can we as educationists, faculty and educational heads develop this â€�will’, within ourselves and our future leaders? All educational stakeholders must determine where they can best influence and engage in the effort of integrating ethics throughout the course, curriculum, and community. Students should be engaged in a process where they can develop a greater self-understanding by introspection on their â€�real self â€�, reflect on their own personal ethics and on the outlook of other students who may have radically conflicting points of view than their own. It would be meaningful to enhance educational opportunities that ensure our students develop concrete personal ethics along with an understanding of various ethical theories. This would provide them with a strong frame of reference.  Students should develop skills to analyze situations in terms of different theories to gives them varied ethical perspectives. Educational experiences should present occasions to practice those ethical decision making skills.  The most important mandate would be to infuse the courage to give voice to their values. Social scientific research shows that self-construal – â€�how people see themselves’, has a dramatic effect on their behavior. Therefore, it is essential to help students see themselves as future leaders with power and responsibilities who will be able to influence their organization and community and how the power of their personal ethics and ethical decisions can create footprints for a better world.

Dr. Farida Virani
Faculty & Consultant – HR and Education

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Clients That We And our Consultants Have Worked With:

International Clients

Kuwait Petroleum Corporation Kuwait, Innovative Leaders Corporation Dubai UAE, Barclays Bank Africa, South African Broadcasting, Nestle’ Africa, African National Congress (ANC) and South African Airlines.

United Kingdom and European Clients

Institute of Leadership and Management , Department of  Trade and Industry, Cardif County Council, IBM, Unileaver, Sun International, Smith Klien Beecham, Royal Airforce, Glasgow Housing Association, Nottingham City Council, Watford Football Club, Walsall Borough Council, Barclays bank UK, Scottish Enterprise, Toshiba, AISEC, Bayer UK, Lucas Industries, SAB Miller, DJTT, DRKW, Northumberland County Council, Southamptom Football Club and WDA.

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Strategic Partners

These are typically individual globally placed organisations that enter into a domain service and provide access to markets at a strategic level usually a joint venture through a Joint Venture Agreement exists.

A strategic partnership could include profit sharing and risk sharing.

We operate in specific sectors and provide professional independent services and solutions, ensuring that when an organisation commissions work through us they have an ethically minded skilled qualified service provider in the field they require.

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Service Partners

These are typically organisations that operate as a domain service supplier to Jasper International they usually have tightly honed expertise in a particular area rather than being seen as generalists.

We operate in specific sectors and provide professional independent services and solutions, ensuring that when an organisation commissions work through us they have ethically minded skilled qualified service partners in the field they require.

Please be aware if selected Jasper are not referral agents so you would be working as a representative of the Jasper organisation and branded under our organisation or one of our partners and not in your own right as an individual or company.

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Associates

A very general term to capture individuals employed elsewhere (or who are self-employed), but who regularly offer their services through sub-contract arrangements.

The individuals could be associates of one or several companies and operate with confidentiality and integrity between them.

And we operate in specific sectors  providing professional independent services and solutions, ensuring that when an organisation commissions work through us they have ethically minded skilled qualified associate consultants in the field they require.

We have specialists from the fields of Human Resources, Human Capital Management, Competence Management, Behavioural Risk Assessment, Business Process Management, Training and Knowledge Management, Organisational and Occupational Psychology. We operate in the Oil and Petrochemical industry, Manufacturing, Food Beverage Leisure, Tourism, Hospitality, Education and the Healthcare Sectors (though not exclusively in these sectors).

Associate Consultants sign Non-Disclosure Agreements and we have with them a Memorandum of Understanding so protecting information and being clear about the relationship between the Associate Consultant, Jasper International and our Clients.

Please be aware if selected Jasper are not referral agents so you would be working as a representative of the Jasper organisation and branded under our organisation or one of our partners and not in your own right as an individual or company.

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Consultants

We operate globally and provide a professional independent services and solutions, ensuring that when an organisation commissions work through us they have ethically minded skilled qualified consultants in the field they require.

We have specialists from the fields of Human Resources, Human Capital Management, Competence Management, Information Technology, English Language Training and Knowledge Management, Occupational and Industrial Psychology – operating in Oil and Gas, the Power Industry, Education and Training, Food and Beverage, Leisure, Hospitality and Tourism, Government both National and Local and the Health and Care Sectors (though not exclusively in these sectors).

If you have specialist consultancy skills in any of the above areas and would like to appear on our skilled professional database then email us using the Mail Us link under Contact at the top of this page. We will contact you by email and will require from you an up to date CV with your colour photograph top centered. The CV should start with your full contact details, a paragraph outlining your primary competence area (s), your professional memberships if any and your qualifications. Finally details of your employment or assignments.

Your CV should be no more than 3 to 4 pages in length, one note of caution if you want to be selective where you will work (safety is always a consideration in our mind) then you may not be the person we are looking for. It is important to us that we can reliably meet our clients requirements and this does require at times considerable flexibility on our part and yours.

We will also need scanned copies of the qualifications and memberships you identify in your CV

We will need a scanned copy of your Passport in the event of international work

Consultants sign Non-Disclosure Agreements and we have with them a Memorandum of Understanding so protecting information and being clear about the relationship between the Consultant and Jasper International. To contact us click Contact above and an email form half way down will drop down.

Please be aware if selected Jasper are not referral agents so you would be working as a representative of the Jasper organisation and branded under our organisation or one of our partners and not in your own right as an individual or company.

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Do you have any of the following skills?

• Experienced Trainer in People Skills?
• Experienced in Coaching Team Leaders and Supervisors?
• Experienced in Coaching Middle Managers?
• Experienced in Coaching Senior Managers?
• Experienced in Delivering Finance Training for Non-Financial Managers?
• Experienced in Delivering Business Planning and Strategy Skills?
• Experienced in Delivering Leadership Skills?
• Experienced in HR and and or HC Skills Training
• Experienced in Delivering Qualifications based Courses in Company and Open Courses?
• Experienced in Delivering a number of Management Skills?
• Prepared to work Internationally on Short Assignments 4 to 6 days?
• Prepared to work Internationally on Longer Assignments?

If you can deliver any of the above workshops or requirements (or others) and would like to appear on our skilled professional database then email us using the Contact link in the header-bar, top left of this page. We will contact you by email and will require from you an up to date CV with your colour photograph top centered. The CV should start with your full contact details, a paragraph outlining your primary competence area(s), your professional memberships if any and your qualifications. Finally details of your employment or assignments.

Your CV should be no more than 3 to 4 pages in length, one note of caution if you want to be selective where you will work (safety is always in our mind) then you may not be the person we are looking for. It is important to us that we can reliably meet our clients requirements and this does require at times considerable flexibility as we would be with you.

• We will also need scanned copies of the qualifications you identify in your CV
• We will need a scanned copy of your Passport in the event of international work
• We will need you to sign a Confidentiality Agreement (NDA) our clients sometimes require strict confidentiality

Associates or Trainers sign Non-Disclosure Agreements and we have with them a Memorandum of Understanding so protecting information and being clear about the relationship between the Associate Trainer and Jasper International.

We operate in specific sectors  and provide professional independent services and solutions, ensuring that when an organisation commissions work through us they have a ethically minded skilled qualified, associate trainer in the field they require.

Please be aware if selected Jasper are not referral agents so you would be working as a representative of the Jasper organisation and branded under our organisation or one of our partners and not in your own right as an individual or company.

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Jasper International Enterprise Network

We operate through a conventional supply chain model using our database of approved qualified suppliers consultants and trainers. If you are interested in becoming a supplier to Jasper International then please email us (the Mail Us link is in the top header bar to the left / contacts) or contact us direct using the contact link top bar. We will require comprehensive information on you as a consultant or company, your areas of specialisation and competence, the area (country (s)) and sector experience that you have.

How we Operate

As an organisation we are independent and don’t favour one system, organization, supplier, or methodology over another, but seek to provide our clients with the very best advise, people and systems they require and which match their unique requirements in the business environment and marketplace in which they operate.

• We operate through our network of approved certified suppliers, trainers, and consultants based in different parts of the world.
• Our Human Capital Services fit seamlessly into other processes in HR departments or organisations.
• For a more personal contact please telephone us.

Innovative Creative People, Thinking and Technology (ICPT-T). Never before has there been such rapid change in business models and such demand for engaging with your people, technology, innovation, flexibility and quick adaptation.

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The World Entrepreneurship Forum

Arose from the discussions held between a few international decision-makers concerned by the state of our world.

The entrepreneur, being used to face ambiguity with pragmatism and creativity, appeared to be a cornerstone in imagining and implementing sustainable solutions to tackle with our world’s major problems.

Mr. Patrick Molle, President of EMLYON Business School was one of the decision-makers involved in these discussions. Based on his experience and vision, he imagined a global think-tank uniting international entrepreneurs from the economic, social, political, and academic fields.

The think tank aims at facilitating exchanges, being a place to share best and continuously renewing practices and promoting entrepreneurship and social justice on the global scale.

Supported by Mr. Jean-Luc Decornoy, President of KPMG, the first World Entrepreneurship Forum was held in Evian, France in November 2008 with EMLYON Business School and KPMG as Founding Members. The second edition of the World Entrepreneurship Forum was held in Lyon, France in November 2009.

In 2010, two additional founding members joined the World Entrepreneurship Forum: the Singaporean institutions Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU).

The Action Community for Entrepreneurship is a movement that involves both the private and public sectors to create a more entrepreneurial Singapore. ACE works with partners to enhance our pro-enterprise environment; fosters an entrepreneurial culture and mindset; and facilitates networking and learning among entrepreneurs.

One of the fastest-growing research universities in the world, Nanyang Technological University is ranked among the world’s top one percent of the world’s universities according to the 2010 QS World University Rankings, and has been cited as a model for science and technology education.

Go to: The World Entrepreneurship Forum

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GRLI is a Global Multicultural Community of Action and Learning

It operates with a fully transparent and unique governance model with all partners participating. It is legally set up as a Foundation of public interest in Belgium.

They identify and act on key leverage points for scalable change through concept development, advocacy and execution of new learning practices and work in partnership as a global community of change agents.

Today the GRLI has 67 partner organisations and is expanding rapidly. It has set a limit of 120 partners for the years to come in order to remain a fully integrated and action oriented global network, and to fulfil its unique role as a leading global catalyst for key challenges and future demands regarding how to develop a next generation of globally responsible leaders.

The work of the partners is supported by a Secretary General and a management office based at EFMD in Brussels and additional input from a team of senior advisers.

Two to three work meetings are held annually (including a formal Annual General Meeting of the Foundation). These provide a platform for continuity and face-to-face work, experience sharing and learning between qualified individuals representing dedicated organisations from all parts of the world.

Go to the GRLI Site

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The Work Foundation

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Business Ethics I.B.E.

Originally, it operated as a fund within the Christian Association of Business Executives (CABE), a registered charity established to promote the study and application of Christian moral principles in the conduct of business. It was founded by Neville Cooper and launched at the Mansion House with an appeal by the Lord Mayor.

In 2000, the Institute obtained separate charitable status; its charitable article being “to advance public education in business ethics and related subjects with particular reference to the study and application of ethical standards in the management and conduct of industry and business generally in the United Kingdom and elsewhere”.

Since its founding over 20 years ago, the IBE has published over 20 books on business ethics topics; conducted surveys on the use of codes of ethics within companies; developed training programmes in business ethics, from induction programmes to the board room; worked with academics and business schools to promote the study of business ethics within MBA and business studies courses; and offered advice and support to business ethics practitioners and their companies. The IBE also holds events under the Chatham House Rule so that ethical issues which organisations commonly face may be discussed, and this has helped drive the work programme of the Institute.

Go to Institute of Business Ethics

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Transparency International

Transparency International challenges the inevitability of corruption, and offers hope to its victims. Since its founding in 1993, TI has played a lead role in improving the lives of millions around the world by building momentum for the anti-corruption movement. TI raises awareness and diminishes apathy and tolerance of corruption, and devises and implements practical actions to address it.

TI has the skills, tools, experience, expertise and broad participation to fight corruption on the ground, as well as through global and regional initiatives.

Now in its second decade, Transparency International is maturing, intensifying and diversifying its fight against corruption.

Corruption is the abuse of entrusted power for private gain. It hurts everyone whose life, livelihood or happiness depends on the integrity of people in a position of authority.
Go to Transparency International

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Leaders and Experts from Business

Leaders and experts from business, government, civil society and academic institutions will gather for a Global Ethics Forum in Geneva from 30 June to 1 July to forge new ways of developing responsible business ethics in a rapidly changing world.

Globethics.net is a worldwide ethics network based in Geneva, with an international Board of Foundation of eminent persons. It provides an electronic platform for ethical reflection and action. Its central instrument is the internet site www.globethics.net.

The aim of Globethics.net is to ensure that people in all regions of the world are empowered to reflect and act on ethical issues. In order to ensure access to knowledge resources in applied ethics, Globethics.net has developed its Globethics.net Library, the leading global digital library on ethics. Globethics.net took this initiative to ensure that persons – especially in Africa, Asia and Latin-America – have access to good quality and up to date knowledge resources. The founding conviction of Globethics.net was that more equal access to knowledge resources in the field of applied ethics will enable persons and institutions from developing and transition economies to become more visible and audible in the global discourse on ethics. There is no cost involved in using the library. Individuals only need to register (free of charge) as participants on the Globethics.net website (www.globethics.net) to get access to all the full text journals, encyclopedias, e-books and other resources in the library.

In addition to the library, Globethics.net also offers participants on its website the opportunity to join or form electronic working groups for purposes of networking or collaborative research. The international secretariat, based in Geneva, currently concentrates on three topics of research: Business and Economic Ethics, Methodologies of Interreligious Ethics and Responsible Leadership. The knowledge produced through the working groups and research finds their way into publications that are also made available in the Globethics.net Library. One of the latest fruits of such collaborative work is the book, Overcoming Fundamentalism (edited by Christoph StĂĽckelberger and Heidi Hadsell, 2009, Geneva: Globethics.net).
Go to Global Ethics Net….

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