If is Professor in FM at Sheffield Hallam University, where he consults, writes and speaks on a range of issues concerning FM, workspace and organisational culture. He first became interested in using workspace to moderate behaviour in 1983 when he was part of the first western group to establish an office in Guangzhou, China. He left the oil business as a change agent in 1993 and became a full-time academic four years later.

On weekends he would prefer that you don't find him.