Mike is the managing partner of Johnson & Associates, a corporate communications firm that he founded in 1982 in Brussels and London, following a career in journalism and corporate communication for multinational corporations. His work today centres around the Future of Work, Talent Management, Organisational Development and Corporate Communication for private and public organisations. He is the author of nine books on business and management issues, and has developed a series of World of Work studies for the Financial Times and The Economist. His most recent books are Winning the People Wars (2001) and TalentMagnet (2002), both published by the Financial Times, and The New Rules of Engagement (2004), published by the CIPD. A regular on conferences and seminars around the globe where he lectures on emerging world of work issues and trends, he is the founder of The FutureWork Forum.