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Contributors TERRENCE SEAMON is a leadership and organisational development and career transition consultant. A highly creative business leader, Terrence’s signature strengths lie in design and facilitation. Prior to his current role as Principal and Senior Consultant at Facilitation Solutions, Terrence was the Portfolio Manager for Management & Leadership Development programmes at the American Management Association, one of the largest worldwide corporate training and development organisations. Previous to the AMA, he held various internal consulting roles in Training & Organisation Development in the energy, pharmaceutical and telecommunications industries. Active in social media, Terrence founded and moderates The Heart of Meaningful Work, a social network on LinkedIn dedicated to facilitating worldwide conversations about finding greater fulfillment at work. He also moderates the Manager Tools group at the Employee Engagement Network. Committed to helping others through job transition, Terrence coaches job hunters via the St. Matthias Employment Ministry in Somerset NJ now in its seventh year of operation. CINDY SAUNDERS is the HR Manager in the Reno, Nevada corporate office of Tahoe Resources Inc., a $4 billion publicly traded company that operates a silver mine in Guatemala and a gold mine in Peru. Cindy has expertise within various industries, developing HR strategies focused on managing and retaining talent, engaging employees, and building robust leadership. 8 November 2015 Before starting her private consulting practice in Denver, Colorado, USA, in 1994, SANDRA FORD WALSTON served for seven years as Vice President, Private Banking in California, where she developed, to her credit, over 35 million dollars in aggregate deposits. Her success as a banker was enhanced by her previous accomplishments in real estate, selling residential and income properties. Known as The Courage Expert and innovator of StuckThinking™, Sandra is the principal of a 20-year-old learning and organisational effectiveness consulting firm and a courage coach. Professor CHRIS ROWLEY, GradCIPD, BA, MA (Warwick), DPhil (Nuffield College, Oxford) is Editor of the leading academic journal Asia Pacific Business Review, book Series Editor of both Working in Asia and Asian Studies and serves on many journal Editorial Boards. He has published widely, with over 450 articles, books and chapters and other contributions in practitioner journals, magazines and newsletters. He has given international radio and newspaper interviews and been involved in knowledge transfer engagement.