DR GARRY E HUNT

"Making The Impossible Possible" - Experience from the NASA Space Programme

Dr. Garry Hunt has a wide range of talents, as a qualified international business adviser, scientist, TV and radio broadcaster and author.

He is an expert on the future of e-commerce and for the past 25 years has been concerned with business, management HR, IT and telecommunications both as a line manager and a corporate advisor - working with some of the major companies in the world.

His experiences are built on decades with NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena California through participation in space programmes to explore the Earth and planets; also at several US Universities, Imperial College and University College London where he held senior positions. 

He has presented live ITN coverage of the first shuttle launches from and worked closely with NASA - culminating in his being nominated TV Scientist of the Decade in 1989.

He has advised many top international companies and government departments on such topics as information technology, business restructuring, improving financial performance and corporate communications.

He is a member of many national and international organisations including the British Computer Society; the Parliamentary Information Technology Committee; the Institute of Directors; a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Freeman of the City of London.

Now as the Managing Partner of his own company, visiting Professor at Kingston University Business School adviser to Government of Sri Lanka & non executive Director of some major organisations, he combines this special range of abilities to assist public and private organisations throughout the world.

Garry's extensive media experience results from regular appearances on:

. ITN News, where he was the consultant space adviser for 10 years & provided the satellite links to ITN London from California for NASA space missions.
.BBC Sky at Night, where he has been appearing for more than 20 years
.Anchoring coast to coast US and international TV programmes during the Voyager encounters with Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
.BBC Breakfast Time, Sky News, Sky Breakfast Channel 4 Big Breakfast
.Phone-in programmes on BBC Radio 2, 4, World Service, LBC and in TV Children's Programmes.

.Radio & TV News Programmes throughout the world; e.g. BBC, ABC, CBS
(US), Channel 7 Australia, Cable TV channels, Sri Lanka TV...
.Science magazine programmes such as Horizon, Science Now, Discovery
.Royal Institution Christmas Lectures & evening discourses
.Presenter & co-ordinator of satellite broadcast between UK, US & Sri Lanka

In business, Garry provides advice to Companies and Management Groups on

.Business, Financial Planning & Management

. E Business and exploiting the Internet
.Benchmarking
.Management and Survival of Change
.Self Managing Teams

. From Snakes to Software - the growth of the Indian IT Industry

. Climate Change
.Value Added Marketing
.Business Process Re-Engineering
.Business led use of IT
.Value for money from IT
.Corporate Communications
.Best Practice Consultancy

He is a regular speaker at many business schools and conferences, including the Management Centre Europe; has worked with many organisations in the Oil and Gas Sector; is a member of the Parliamentary Information Technology Committee and received the ICL Worldwide Services Award for his consultancy activities in 1992 along with 4 NASA awards.

He is a Visiting Professor at the Kingston University Business School & has held many Executive and Non Executive Director positions. These include Chief Executive of Logica Consultancy; Director of Business Development in the ICL Group; Non executive Director of Fleishmann Hillard, Sequent Computers, EDS, International Imaging Systems (Silicon Valley USA), HW Group plc, Smart e-Commerce Ltd, Access International & Globebyte.

THE WORKSHOPS...

Every organisation throughout the world is facing major challenges in their business as a consequence of the constant economic, political and technological changes. 

These issues have resulted in changes in the working environment, streamlined organisational structures, created a need for new management and interpersonal skills & improved use of information technology as companies seek their most appropriate way forward. 

The goal of every organisation is to achieve business excellence and a closer relationship with the customer. 

The problems of restructuring, developing a learning, responsive, flexible organisation, exploiting information technology (IT), developing a new strategy & direction for the business are complex and involve many aspects of the business and trade-offs within the existing organisation. 

These matters cannot be addressed in isolated compartments. Furthermore, these strategic issues require the management and leadership of the most senior levels of the company and the development of an effective team-working environment. 

But how do you and your organisation, approach these challenging problems while maintaining a successful company in a competitive business environment, punctuated by an increasing number of management fads, such as TQM, JIT and Business Process Re-engineering....? The facilitated & interactive workshops set out below, are used to assist individual Managers and Directors to gain further knowledge, experience and develop their skills. These events may be of benefit to you and your organisation. 

Managing for Business Excellence
Workshops with Management Teams 
Corporate Governance
Leadership
Strategy
Vision
Personal Development 

Exploiting IT for YOUR business benefits 
for CEOs, Directors & Senior Managers 

Business Process Improvement
The Practical Approach After the Hype 

Best Practice Skills
Consultancy & Sales (Professional Services)
Business Strategy & Planning
Account Management & Planning
Business Networking & Relationship Management
Service Level Agreements
Managing Consultants
How well do YOU know YOUR customer? 

Self Managing Teams
How to develop, implement & operate a successful team culture

e-Business and exploiting the Internet 

Comments....

"Garry has extensive experience to share. He is a wonderful facilitator & trainer and makes all participants feel at ease"

"Excellent and experienced presenter. Information conveyed concisely and effectively. Specific approaches & methodologies to be applied-applicability to my direct requirements."

"An excellent dynamic speaker who provided insightful tips, experience to help me as a novice manager develop for team improvement in my organisation. Wonderful thank you."

"Excellent - covered almost the whole issues of managing people"

"A good lively presentation with a good level of involvement"

"Very good and lively. Good interaction between Garry and the audience."

"Very thought provoking - will use some of the ideas within own management team and general staff team"

"Inspirational and participative - highly enjoyable"

"I enjoyed the way we were made to think of problems outside of our normal experiences."

His Clients include:

Abbey National, Avon Automotive Products, AEA Technology, BAA, BBC, British Council, British Library, Business Link, Cable & Wireless, Centre for International Briefing, Commonwealth Secretariat, Datamatics (India), Dental Practice Board, DTI, European Commission, EDS, Epsom & Ewell BC, Europe Japan Centre, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Fisher Price Toys, Galileo, Government of Sri Lanka, Grampian Enterprise, Hewlett Packard, Halifax plc, IBC (Asia Pacific), IBM, ICIM (India) ICL, Institute of Management, ITN, Lane Group, Maincontrol, Metropolitan Police, MoD Police, NASA, NCR, Nottingham Health Authority, NPL, Oracle, Royal Borough of Kingston-Upon Thames, Rothchilds, Sequent Computers, Securicor Alarms, Scott Bader, Royal & Sun Alliance, The Open Group, UN, TMP Worldwide, Woolwich plc, WWF International. 

More about Garry...

Garry has been actively involved in space exploration for more than three decades.

 His space career started as a very junior scientist who developed some computer procedures which became the basis for the early earth meteorological experiments to measure the properties of clouds from space and provide corrections to other measurements used for forecasting the weather.

You can judge for yourself whether this was really successful!

From the cloistered and collegiate environment of Oxford, Garry was invited to join the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, California to work on a range of projects associated with the exploration of the solar system.

 These were very early days, when the first primitive spacecraft had managed to attempt to land on Venus with varying success, and fly by Mars, which then still looked like the moon.

 At JPL Garry shared an office with a member of the NASA Astronaut programme, which provided many insights to NASA then current programme and plans for the future with space shuttle, which was strongly opposed by many leading people in the space programme.

Garry worked initially as a junior scientist to develop new ways to determine an understanding of the atmospheres of the other planets in the solar system as NASA goal had moved from simply landing on the moon, to seeking to understand the origin of life, and exploring other planets for the future of mankind. While at JPL, one of a group of 7 people worldwide (the only Brit), selected by NASA to develop a TV system for exploring the outer planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune), with responsibility for the weather systems. This involved the development of the data analysis systems and a close working relationship with the engineering and spacecraft teams over 20 years; learning many new skills on the way.

During this time Garry returned to the UK and set up a group at University College London, and later Imperial College, London to continue this work, which required the development of a new data process system and the development of the team of people to make it happen. This work expanded to support TV weather broadcasts as you still see today.

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