Today I arrived in London’s Heathrow Airport to then make my way to Oxford for the 8th International Conference on Human Resource Development Research and Practice across Europe, sponsored by Oxford Brookes University and held at The Oxford Hotel. With the time change and all the travel, I missed the opening keynote since I collapsed in the room and caught up on a little sleep. At least I made it to the Welcome Reception where I had a nice chat with Ken Bartlett from the University of Minnesota and the editor of Advances in Development Human Resources (ADHR), one of the journals sponsored by the Academy of HRD. I also spoke briefly with Darlene Russ-Eft, a colleague and co-presenter with my research-partner Robin Yap, as well as with Gary McLean, whose work I have read but whom I had not previously met.

Another conference, another nice group of dedicated professionals.

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