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John Aylen, MA

  • Full-time Lecturer, Marketing

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Biography

John Aylen is a marketing communications professional with more than 30 years experience in planning and implementing communications programs. His clients have included leading organizations in the pharmaceutical and health care industries, brewing, science and engineering, the not-for-profit sector, resource industries and many others.

He is the president of Youth Employment Services, a Montreal-based organization that helps people across the province to find employment, start businesses or turn their artistic pursuits into money-making ventures.

John also sits on the Board of the Old Brewery Mission where he chairs the communications subcommittee. Other current involvement includes sitting on the selection committee of the McEuen Scholarship, fundraising for the Mordecai Richler Chair in Creative Writing and the St. Andrew’s Society McEuen Chair in Canadian Scottish Relations.

John is a former president of the Concordia University Alumni Association and former member of the Board of Governors of the university.

Education

M.A. Concordia University 1976
B.A. Carleton University 1973

Areas of expertise

Business communications
Marketing Communications
Small Business Management
Writing and Publishing

Publications

Books

  • The Common Sense Guide to Running Your Own Business (HarperCollins)
  • Running Your Own Business (Park Avenue/Jist Publishing)
  • Guia de Bom Senso para administrar seu negócio (Madras)
  • Merck Frosst Celebrates 100 Years (Kelly Aylen)
  • Revive and Grow Strong: The Story of the McEuens and the McEuen Scholarship Foundation (McEuen Scholarship Foundation)
  • Well Stressed – Manage Stress Before it Becomes Toxic (translation Par amours du stress by Sonia Lupien) (John Wiley & Sons)
  • Starting and Running a Small Business for Dummies (John Wiley & Sons)
  • History of Quebec for Dummies (translation of the work of Éric Bédard) (John Wiley and Sons
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