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Sumati Reddy holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. Her other qualifications include, Bachelor of Arts, Diploma in Hotel Management, Certified Hospitality Educator, Diploma in French, and Diploma in Spanish. She is currently pursuing Ph.D. in the field of Organizational Behavior from Osmania University, Hyderabad. Her topic for the dissertation is ‘The Impact of Organizational Culture on Organizational performance.’ She is a Faculty Member at ICFAI Books, Hyderabad, an affiliate of The ICFAI University. She has edited books on Corporate Social Responsibility, Workforce Diversity, Training and Development and Performance Management. She is also an Adjunct Faculty at the ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad, where she teaches Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. Her areas of interest include international organizational behavior with a focus on change management, international negotiations, group dynamics, and managerial competencies; and experience in the hospitality and pharma sectors in the functional area of Human Resource Management.

Professor Albert E Barker studied philosophy before joining the world of industry and commerce. He worked for a large international corporation before pursuing business interests in the field of engineering and technology. Business activities brought him experience as chairman/CEO of a small group of companies and extensive board level contact with overseas international businesses from the largest multinationals to small independent enterprises. He became a Fellow of the British Institute of Management and was heavily engaged with voluntary organisations. Severe concerns about the quality and content of academic managerial training brought him into contact with Reg Revans. They soon became the closest of friends, collaborating and working together for many years until Revans’ death in 2002. With several academic associations, his main focus is as a professor at the University of Oradea, Romania, where he works to establish entrepreneurial and social regeneration, foster SMEs, and encourage the ethic of application and learning alongside practitioners, in the face of a world of ever more esoteric academic theory. He applies Action Learning in masters courses including HRD and MBA programmes.