Creating Ripples
My Life of Adventure and the People Who Made It Happen
Written by Ken Allen AO
Edited and produced by Broadcast Books
In Creating Ripples, I write the story of my personal and professional life from my own point of view. It is full of memories and is touched with a sense of eternal optimism.
All my life I have created ripples. Starting with my birth in Adelaide, when a small ripple grew bigger and bigger and eventually took my wife Jill and our three boys and me all around the world.
Our family has done so many wonderful things together. We have visited countries all around the globe, lived by the sea, in the mountains and in some of the great cities of the world. Jill and I have met amazing people – ordinary people, kings, queens, emperors, tycoons, prime ministers, leading educators, scientists, sportsmen and women, the list goes on and on.
This book also embraces my business career, which spanned over sixty years, in various countries and in many different roles. It began at the start of a rapidly globalising world. During those years I was fortunate to connect with many of the major players who were working on the world stage and making this global transformation a reality.