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John O'Brien MBE

John O'Brien MBE, (born 30 June 1962)[1] is a former British Army Officer, Philanthropist, ethical business communications specialist, Best-selling business author and serial campaigner.

Early Life O'Brien was born in Wellington, Shropshire, England in 1962, the son of local business people and grandson of Jack O'Brien the famous Irish horse breeder of Limerick and great nephew of the renowned Irish Author and playwright Kate O'Brien. He attended StChads primary School, Wellington Grammar School and New College Telford prior to joining Lloyds Bank as an 18 year old.

Military Service in 1984 O'Brien was commissioned into the Light Infantry, in which he served for three years as a second Lieutenant, in 1987 he transferred to the 22nd CHESHIRE Regiment eventually reaching the rank of Captain. He served operationally in the Falkland Islands, Northern Ireland. He retired in 1994.

Campaigning & Corporate Responsibility O'Brien held two posts, firstly as CEO of a medical Institute at The University of Liverpool and then as a director of a City council, before spending 10 years as Managing Director of The Prince of Wales's charitable programmes at Business in the Community, one of the Prince's Charities of Charles, Prince of Wales.[2] where he was recognised as having been instrumental in creating a range of significant initiatives of national importance. He developed a variety of initiatives which engaged business on key social issues. These included: ·The Prince's Rural Action Programme ·The Prince's Fishing Initiative .The Mosaic Network (UK) ·The Mosaic International Leadership programme O'Brien also led and expanded The Prince's Seeing is Believing Programme, running programmes in India and launching it with the associated charity CBSR, in Toronoto in 2006

After leaving BITC in 2010, O'Brien was appointed a special representative by HRH The Prince of Wales to YouthUnited. He also asked O'Brien to create a flood relief programme called the Pakistan Recovery Fund, which O'Brien created under the auspices of The Prince's charity the British Asian Trust which O'Brien had helped launch in 2007.

Philanthropy and Writing O'Brien developed a number of charitable initiatives over a concerted period between 2010 and 2017. 2010: On behalf of The Prince of Wales, he created a national roll out of a pilot project which became The Industrial Cadet programme of the Engineering Development Trust 2012: The Jubilee Hour 2014: Remember WW1 with Clive Aslet

'Open Source Campaigning' Books O'Brien is author of: 'Taking AIM': ASIN: B00YYBVOHO 'The Power of Purpose' :ISBN-10: 1292202041 : ISBN-13: 978-1292202044 The Power of Purpose is the UK's bestselling business book on ethical purpose. It achieved No3 at retailers WH Smith, No 10 at Amazon, was a top 15 leaders read at Forbes and was shortlisted UK Business Book of the Year 2017.