For 18 years, Brian Jackson has served as an Instructor for all the executive-level M.B.A. Programs at the Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College (ranked #1 in Florida by Financial Times, BusinessWeek, Leadership Excellence and Forbes). He also co-facilitates the College's highly regarded "Advanced Leadership Program", and was a faculty member of the New England-based "Global Institute for Leadership Development". Brian was a member of the Greater Orlando Organizational Network, and has served as a committee member and Diversity co-Chair for the Central Florida Chapter of the American Society for Training and Development .

Some of the recent clients Brian has worked with include Alcoa, the United States Forest Service, Florida Atlantic University, United States Air Force, Walt Disney World Company, ScanSource, SunTrust, International Leadership Associates, Luxottica Group s.p.A., and the Coca-Cola Corporation. In addition, he has had the pleasure of consulting with the Tribune Company, the University of South Florida, Siemens Corporation and Florida Hospital. Brian is also a contributing author to several books and journals that promote performance-related methodologies.

Educated at the University of Capetown, South Africa, Brian Jackson acquired industrial and commercial experience prior to his affiliation with the Outward Bound organization in Rhodesia. In this capacity, he designed and facilitated wilderness-based programs for personal and leadership development in the early 1970's, operating throughout the Chimanimani Mountains of Mozambique. Brian has also worked with Outward Bound in England and North America, and is an inductee of their international “Roll of Honour”.

In 1976, Brian was appointed to the staff of Brathay Hall, a pioneering British training and development organization, whose lengthy client base includes IBM, General Electric, the Manchester Business School, and Rolls-Royce. As a Course Director at Brathay Hall, he designed and facilitated extended executive development programs – many utilizing an outdoor environment. For participants, the exhilarating and memorable mountain settings of Cumbria’s Lake District National Park served to highlight the principles of – and critical skills for – effective personal and organizational leadership, and high performance teamwork.

Brian Jackson is certified as both a DISC Facilitator and a “Crucial Conversations” Trainer, and serves as a partner with Ohio-based International Leadership Associates. With many years of international experience, his expertise has been sought by other nationally-recognized Providers of experientially-based development programs to enhance the quality and effectiveness of the services that they – in turn – offer to their own clients. This work included the design, delivery and facilitation of programs for various client Providers, where he consults with key individuals responsible for Performance and Development to help these clients provide experience-based content and processes in-house that are designed to enhance – and reinforce – organizational development aspects in an on-going manner.

Brian currently resides in Austin, Texas, and is qualified as a United States Coast Guard Licensed Captain. He is also certified by the American Sailing Association as a multi-level instructor, and has taught for the prestigious Offshore Sailing School. His commitment to identifying and meeting client needs is consistently reflected through his innovative program designs, wide usage of sophisticated experience-based projects, his highly interactive facilitation style, and the attainment of tangible results and enhanced performance for the varied clients of The Orion Trust.

Email: oriontrust@gmail.com Telephone: 407-320-1881

As Founder and Director of The Orion Trust, Brian Jackson is a leader in designing and facilitating experience-based organizational performance programs for corporate clients and government entities throughout the United States, and elsewhere.

Prior to relocating to Florida in 1987, Brian served for three years as a full-time consultant and faculty member of Boston University's School of Management, where he directed programs that focused on teambuilding, management development, and creativity enhancement for a variety of Fortune 500 and other corporations. Clients included executives from such diverse organizations as Digital Equipment Corporation, Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, Warner Lambert, Honeywell, General Foods, and The Morgan Bank. His principal emphasis with Boston University's Executive Challenge Program was to create and facilitate highly customized, experiential land- and water-based programs for clients at various locations throughout the United States.

PROFESSIONAL BIOGRAPHY BRIAN JACKSON