Career Summary

As a business manager, Jonathan Scott tripled productivity, reduced costs by up to 40%, and increased the net profits by over 50% at the businesses where he worked. In addition, he has pioneered multi-million dollar projects in parts of the world where they previously did not exist and improved one business so much it was later acclaimed (and documented) as "the best (of its kind) in the country".

To date, Scott has accumulated over twenty-eight years of work and managerial experience in North America (12 years), the Middle East (6 years), various locations across Europe (12 years), and South America and Asia. Along the way he turned-around three businesses under difficult circumstances (one occurred in a war zone).

Now, as a university lecturer and management educator, Scott provides education services (please click on 'Testimonials' above) to institutes such as the Equis-accredited, Leon Kozminski Academy of Entrepreneurship and Management in Warsaw, Poland ('one of the fifty leading business schools in Europe'), as well as Bradford University (Bradford, UK), which is ranked as Europe's fifth best business institute. Scott is also faculty member of the Audencia Nantes Business School (one of France's elite 'Grand Ecoles') in Nantes, France. In addition to his academic duities, he trains managers at the companies where they work. His speciality subjects include entrepreneurship, management, and efficiency (i.e.: sustainability and waste reduction).

In addition to teaching, Jonathan Scott is the author of The Concise Handbook of Management and Fundamentals of Leisure Business Success (both from Haworth Press, New York), The Entrepreneur's Guide to Building a Successful Business (to be released in 2008), and the novels Expedition (2004), Days Captive (2004) and On Wings (2007).
Currently, he resides in Central Europe.

The Details
(the following information was derived from an interview given to the Nottingham Evening Post (Nottingham, England) in 2000

Born in Trenton, New Jersey, Jonathan Scott has lived in nine different states (Massachusetts; Kentucky; Pennsylvania; New York; North Carolina (where he attended Brevard College); Wisconsin; Florida (where he earned a B.Sc. from Florida State University in 1987); and Georgia).
In addition, he has lived and/or worked in the USA, Saudi Arabia, France, the UK, Poland, Mauritius, and Venezuela. Currently he holds MBA and MA degrees from universities in London, England and Warsaw, Poland respectively. He is currently undertaking a PhD scholarship in entrepreneurship.

Scott's career began in 1986 when he was asked to help develop a health club in Caracas, Venezuela. Three years later, he found himself in the Middle East working as an on-site supervisor in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia managing a diverse array of facilities for thousands of expatriates and their families (from over 70 different countries). A year into the job, while away on an assignment, he was named as the head of the company’s troubled two-channel cable television studio. Simply put, no one else wanted the position. Within two weeks, the improvement in quality he produced resulted in a complete turn-around.
Shortly thereafter, the Gulf War broke out and Riyadh underwent fourteen nights of SCUD missile attacks. Throughout, Scott kept the business up and running, providing the only local, English-language broadcasting service in the community.

Scott’s next management position sent him back to the Middle East as the head of a private, multi-million dollar business that employed a workforce from over eleven different countries and served a client base representing 52 different nationalities. What his employers neglected to mention during the interview, however, was that the company had been insolvent for over ten years. It became Scott's second turn-around. While there, he was recognized for producing ‘the best (leisure business) in the country’.

With a secure reputation for turning around money-losers, Scott was next named as the Managing Director of another insolvent company. This one involved managing several different enterprises under one roof as well as the building of a golf course near the Red Sea coast - a part of the world where the building of a golf course with grass had never been attempted before. After six months, his third business turn-around was sealed.

Scott was later invited to Mauritius as the General Manager of a large theme park start-up, but when the owners showed a disinterest in pursuing basic safety standards, he left. Shortly thereafter he changed careers and became a business and management teacher.

Currently on his fourth passport, Jonathan Scott has journeyed through over three dozen nations. His experiences include surviving a Middle East war, living through a major terrorist attack in his former London neighborhood, and fleeing from an angry elephant in the Masai Mara game park in Kenya. A dedicated fitness buff and writer, he hopes that one day he'll settle down.