Associate Consultant: John Rason

John Rason is an expert in the human resources, outsourcing and business development fields, having worked across a variety of industries including technology and professional services.

While at Ernst & Young, John advised clients on process improvement, benchmarking and outsourcing in a variety of industries including logistics, banking, brewing and mobile telecommunications and pharmaceuticals.

At Cable & Wireless, he was responsible for delivering management and employee training in Kuwait, Bahrain, Pakistan and the Maldives. John has twice been an international assignee, first in Saudi Arabia developing that Government’s telecommunications systems followed by Latvia, where he held the position of Human Resources Director for the newly-privatised state telecommunications company.

John specialises in the Global Talent Management and Global Mobility fields, helping clients maximise their returns on investment from executive secondments. These activities include organisation design, assignee policy development, supplier selection, business process improvement and strategic outsourcing strategy. His research with global companies finds 1-3% of companies’ employees are expatriates, yet they represent 9-12% of total labour costs. With more than 50% of re-patriates exiting the organisation, organisations are often unaware of these costs of lost people and capital investment to competitors.

In addition to his advisory work, John has held commercial management roles including Whitbread Retail Division where he launched the first fifteen ‘Wine Rack’ Stores in the UK. More recently, at GMAC Global Relocation Services (a specialist General Motors company), John was Business Development Director, developing their European sales and marketing capabilities, raising market awareness and building corporate awareness for GMAC’s International Global Mobility services. He successfully launched their Executive Forum series and regularly wrote articles for Expatriate Adviser magazine, Expatica magazine, and the International Herald Tribune. He has also been a keynote contributor to Management Centre Europe’s Global Talent Management Annual Conference.

He holds a Masters Degree in Managing Human Resources from Kingston University, Surrey and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. Amongst his hobbies include Ipswich Town Football Club matches now that he has retired from playing Rugby Union, swimming and spending time with his twin sons.

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