Jonathan Gifford is a businessman, historian and author, whose writing focuses particularly on the human aspects of leadership and management. After reading philosophy at the University of Kent at Canterbury, Jonathan worked for a number of major media organizations, beginning his career at the Guardian newspaper in the 1970s. He went on to work for the Sunday Express, the Mail on Sunday, and later for BBC Worldwide, where he launched the award-winning BBC History Magazine in 2000. Jonathan is a director of the digital design agency, Bluequest Media, and is the author of History Lessons (Marshall Cavendish, 2010) and Blindsided (Marshall Cavendish, 2012). He lives in Oxfordshire with his wife and children.
