Alan Sharp attended CRGS and University College London. After National Service in the Royal Artillery, he worked in the electronics industry in production and personnel management for 13 years. Subsequently he joined the Coverdale Organisation where he was a senior consultant and then executive director. Later he worked as an independent consultant. For a number of years he visited Harvard twice a year to join the Director and staff of the Harvard Negotiation Project in running negotiation workshops. He is co-author of two books. MANAGER AND TEAM DEVELOPMENT (Heinemann 1990) and GETTING IT DONE (HarperBusiness 1998). The latter has been published in a dozen languages, including German, Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese.