Jon White is a consultant in management and organisation development, public affairs, public relations and corporate communications management. He has special expertise in the analysis of strategic decision-making, and the management of stakeholder relationships involved in the development and realisation of corporate strategy.
He is a visiting professor at Henley Business School, as well as the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University. He has worked in public and private sector organisations in the United Kingdom, the United States, South Africa, Australia, and Canada. Clients have included National Express, Shell, Motorola, Serco, AEA Technology and Serono International, as well as governments in the UK, Canada, Norway, Slovenia and Macedonia. He has experience of developing training programmes delivered in Nigeria and to Nigerian groups visiting London.

He was a faculty member at Cranfield University School of Management, where he was responsible for the School's teaching and research activities in public affairs, public relations and corporate communications.
He has written articles and books on public affairs, public relations and corporate communications practice, including How to Understand and Manage Public Relations (Business Books), Excellence in Public Relations and Communications Management (Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates), as part of a research team with James Grunig from the University of Maryland and others, and Strategic Communications Management: Making Public Relations Work, with Laura Mazur (AddisonWesley). He has also written a number of management case studies for teaching purposes available from The Case Centre (www.thecasecentre.org).
One of these, on Dunhill Holdings, won an award from the European Case Clearing House as the European marketing case of the year, and another on the South African company, Barlow, appeared in Public Relations Cases: International Perspectives (edited by Danny Moss, Routledge). He holds a doctorate from the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he has taught corporate communications. He has made presentations to university and professional groups in the United States, Canada, Australia, China, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, France, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Macedonia, Spain, Nigeria, Zimbabwe and South Africa, as well as the United Kingdom and Ireland. A chartered public relations practitioner with the Chartered Institute of Public Relations in the UK, he oversees the Institute’s Chartership Programme as Chief Assessor.