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About The Writer
Charles Bryant is a profit-oriented educator and entrepreneur with a unique record of formulating strategies, motivating students and achieving dramatic results in challenging turnaround situations. He was the CEO and Senior Research Director of American English Testing & Training (A.E.T.T.), an educational service company, based in Beijing, China.

The A.E.T.T. China entity was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Illinois corporation, giving the A.E.T.T. China entity an F.I.E. or Foreign Investment Enterprise status.

In 2002, Mr. Bryant was 1 of 9 educators selected by the United States Senate to represent American education in China. Prior to going to China, he was a Special Education Teacher and Behavioral Management Specialist for the Chicago Public School system.

His role included instructing teachers on how to manage inappropriate classroom behavior, how to increase reading scores on standardized tests, and how to motivate students to academic success.

Bryant has pursued 4 college degrees, including an M.B.A. in Marketing from Roosevelt University in Chicago. Charles holds a Master of Science Degree in Special Education and a Baccalaureate Degree in Physical Education. His Doctoral studies were in Psychological and Educational Measurements and Statistics from The University of Iowa. 

He has numerous teaching certificates from Illinois, Iowa, and California, and has taught every grade level from kindergarten through college in America and in China.

Charles has taught English to more than 10,000 Chinese learners, including professors at Beijing and Tsinghua Universities, as well as English teachers from the famous Dongbei Yucai School in Shenyang, Ba Yi Zhong Xue in Beijing, and Xing Tai Number 3 Middle School in Hebei.

Some of his former students include government officials, military personnel, police officers, general managers, vice presidents, CEOs, and business executives from the following corporations:
 

Charles is proud of the Chinese learners and professionals that he has assisted in attending some of America's leading universities such as Yale, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Stanford, M.I.T., University of Chicago, University of Denver, Western Michigan University, University of Illinois, and Vancouver Public High Schools in Canada.

He has appeared on television and radio in addition to being featured in numerous newspaper and magazine articles about his work. Charles Bryant is the author of "Imagination, the Key to Success"; "English Language Training for Chinese Professionals"; "China's Economic Outlook in 2004"; "If I Was Your Teacher"; and "Effective Teaching Strategies and Methodologies".

In the early 1970s, Charles had the opportunity to represent an American import company in Japan, Korea, and in Saudi Arabia. The experience of negotiating with Japanese bank executives, Korean businessmen, and Arab sheiks was invaluable to his professional development.

At the age of 29, he developed a marketing and financial consulting firm (Charles Bryant, Inc. & Associates). Success came to this venture when Bryant successfully bid $150,000 on a S.B.A. or 406 minority-contracting program.

In the 1980s, Charles Bryant started a media research and political polling firm. The highlight of this endeavor was when he was the only pollster to accurately predict Harold Washington's stunning upset victory over incumbent Mayor Jane Byrne and State's Attorney Richard M. Daley.

In 1985, Charles received the Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching. For 2 consecutive years, he was voted into Who's Who in Black America, a continuum of the most outstanding people in America of African descent.

Mr. Bryant has coupled his success in business and education with an intense interest in upgrading the quality of community life around the globe. Unselfish in his academic and commercial pursuits, he has shared his knowledge with others in lectures, workshops, seminars, and classroom instruction.

In the words of Dr. Craig Oliver, Foreign Affairs Director of Beijing Juren Educational Center, "It has been said that leadership is often identified with change and the ability to motivate others in the process. Charles Bryant is a personification of motivational change.  This was nurtured very early in his childhood and is apparent in his current behavior and relationship with others."

Charles is currently teaching in a Special Education program for Chicago Public Schools. He is also writing a major proposal to recruit math and science teachers from China.

Charles Bryant has a trenchant insight into Chinese learners and their educational system. In his book, he focuses a significant amount of attention to teaching in China. "I taught in almost every academic venue known to man from the oil fields in the rural countryside to its greatest institutions of learning."
 
After you read his book, you may want to go to China. But it is not necessary—you will have already been there.