J.D. Tripathi is a Management Consultant and a trainer since over 30 years. He did his post graduate studies in U.K. in Business Administration and Management Studies. He graduated in Commerce from Bombay University. He had worked with Colgate, Palmolive, Blue Star and new Standard Engineering, in senior positions.    He was a Director of the Training Institute, The Stock Exchange, Bombay, and Vice Principal of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan`s R.P. Institute of Communication and Management. He was a Consultant with IBCONS and a Guest Faculty with NITIE, He was a visiting Faculty with J.B. Institute of Management Studies, N.M. Institute of Management Studies, Lala Lajpatrai Institute of Management and other Management institutes. He was a consulting Editor (Management) of Fortune India Magazine.     He has handled a number of consultancy and/or training assignments of a number of companies including Air India, Amul Dairy, Asea Brown Boveri, Bajaj Auto, Bharat Petroleum, BSES, Cynamid, ICICI, IPCL, Johnson and Johnson, Larsen and Toubro, MMRDA, Mukand, TELCO, Vickers Systems, MTNL and Gammon. He is a Business Associate of Tata Consultancy Services. He has contributed 5 Papers in 5 management books and a number of his articles have been published in newspapers and journals.