John Aylen has a small business that provides marketing and communications services to businesses, institutional clients and not-for-profit organizations of all sizes. He is a regular guest lecturer at the Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurial Studies at McGill University and has been a judge at the John Molson School of Business International MBA Case Competition for more than 10 years. He is the author of a number of books on small business management and contemporary history. He has written widely on business topics for magazines and newspapers in Canada and has edited books on health care and business strategy as well as works of fiction.