Le Dr Bob Boland (1926-2020) a été un apprenant et un enseignant à vie.

A chartered accountant in his 20s, Bob Boland founded a school of management in his 30s and was a business school dean and international visiting professor in his 40s.

He trained in and practiced medicine specialising in public health in his 50s and was an international civil servant in his 60s.

He became a clinical hypnotherapist in his 70s, and wrote plays and volunteered as US tax accountant into his 80s and 90s.

He is the author of the AGL (Autonomous Group Learning) Method, a precursor of problem-based learning use to successfully teach finance, marketing and accounting to over 30’000 managers around the world.

Whilst at the International Labour Office in the 1980s, he championed environmental auditing and foresaw the environmental impact of human activity, particularly in business.

Plus tard, il a écrit des pièces de théâtre pour remettre en question les normes et les idées de la société sur des thèmes tels que la santé en fin de vie, la gestion des traumatismes psychologiques et la corruption dans les affaires.

Les principes fondateurs de son travail et de son approche générale de la vie étaient de trouver la joie dans l'expérience de l'apprentissage et de ne jamais cesser de tenter l'impossible.