THIS IS JIM'S PICTURE

...on his website, FORESIGHT HUMAN RESOURCE STRATEGISTS. Jim's biodata is listed as follows:

Jimeno M. Damaso

He is an HRD consultant to some big corporations on Entry-Point Skills Development, Leadership Strengthening and Retirement Planning. He introduced Workers Lifestyle Planning to Filipino workers in 1987 to improve their worklife-family life productivity. He is an international project development consultant and is the author of several books on entrepreneurship. He is a Consultant on Organizational Development, Career Development, Change Management and Human Resource Development.

After two years as a Corporate Planning Associate at a local Trading company, he worked as an Export / Import Manager at an export zone company. He then served as a Senior Economist and Manager for Project Promotions at a private development bank. He has been on his own as an entrepreneur and business consultant since the early 1980s.

He worked with NGOs throughout the 1980s as a small business development consultant. He managed a small bank and a Business Advisory Service in West Africa.

He has been a consultant to the International Labor Organization and the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions since 1990. He authored an ILO manual on Economics for Trade Unionists which has been translated into several languages. He has also trained labor representatives to the Regional Tripartite Wage and Productivity Boards on minimum wage negotiations.

He has been an HRD consultant to large companies on retirement planning programs. These include Nestle, Procter and Gamble, Coca-Cola, Novartis, United Laboratories, Meralco and PLDT.

He also had fixed term consultancy engagements with regional development programs including the Growth with Equity in Mindanao and the North Quad Project in Northern Luzon.

He is President of Foresight Human Resource Strategists, Inc., Foresight Business Learning Systems, Foresight Bookstore and Publishing, Inc., and EPIC-ASIA International Consultants, Inc.

He completed a BS Civil Engineering course at the University of the Philippines (1973) and an MS Industrial Economics at the Center for Research and Communication (1975) now known as the University of Asia and the Pacific.

He attended programs on Organizational Development at the Ateneo de Manila University and Financial Integration at the University of Bonn in West Germany.