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Roger Burton

Mr. Burton is currently an independent and collaborative change agent and management consultant. He is now collaborating with a wide variety of change practitioners and clients with an emerging focus in the questions of change in the 'east/west' relationships between Chinese entities and transnational corporations. In particular Mr. Burton is currently exploring the questions of carbon footprints for major planetary supply chains (food, water, energy, waste) and the emerging business, economic, organizational and change models required to appropriately respond to the current condition of the planet today. Mr. Burton is particularly focused on the underlying structures of change and its cross-cultural applications. His practice includes not only the development of leadership to face the challenges of today's world, but also the development of change agents and communities of practice.

Previously he was a partner with CSC/Index and prior to that had his own consultancy specializing in Sino-US trade and manufacturing. Mr. Burton has worked with a wide variety of business in about 40 countries to date. He has been consulting professionally in some capacity for 20 years. His work includes team building, organizational change and transformation (change architecture and implementation), coaching, leadership development, learning and disciplines of personal mastery and collective learning, "breakthrough" projects, and partnering with clients to architect and implement system wide change and growth. He has worked with a diverse set of large multi-national clients since the mid-1990's in a wide variety of business and functional settings including: work on site with the line and particular assets, systems (living systems) change with global business units, strategic and systems dialogue, transfer of competency in both line and functional settings, model design and capability building, innovation, coaching senior executives up to the CEO level and their teams, consultant and coach development, and conference design and implementation. Clients include: BP, BMW, Cinergy, Astra-Zeneca, GSK, GE, Fletcher-Challenge, Mead, St-Gobain, Georgia-Pacific, and the US Internal Revenue Service to name a few.

Mr. Burton is a graduate of St. John's College where is he studied classical western philosophy and dialogue. He spent several years in China doing research as a Watson Fellow. He is certified in several disciplines such as Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Tai Chi and transformational technologies.