JOHN ABULAFIA: Biography:

He is Associate Trainer with: Hedra, CIFT, Whitmuir Consulting, The Aziz Corporation, Spearflex, Green Kassab, JSB Training, Olympia Executive and QA Training, the company that won the Microsoft Global CTEC Solution of the Year Award.

John balances Management and Executive Training with his career as an international theatre and opera director. He has directed at ENO, Glyndebourne, the National Theatre, and in Spain, the US, Czech Republic, Israel and France. He won both the Prudential Award for opera and the Independent’s Opera of the Year Award. His 2004 production of MARIA DE BUENOS AIRES, a Tango Musical, toured Britain playing to full houses. It was filmed by American PBS TV and has been invited to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden where it will open in 2007 before embarking on a tour of Paris, Madrid, Genoa, Bermuda, Innsbruck and Seoul.