Background and Introduction

The Pacific Institute started life in 1971 with a simple idea - If you open people's mind to their own potential and show them how to achieve it, significant changes in personal, organisational and community effectiveness will follow.

Today, this belief in people's potential means that The Pacific Institute (TPI) is now working all over the world in both the public and private sectors. The Pacific Institute has offices in Seattle, London, Hong Kong, South Africa, Japan, Australia and for the last two years in Wales, in Aberdare. Its main programmes are now in fifteen languages, including a Welsh version of the Go For It! student programme and are being delivered to public sector organisations, to schools, communities, prisons, sports bodies and to commercial businesses.

In Wales, The Pacific Institute is building strong partnerships with many organisations so that together we can make a difference. Such partners include Elwa, The Assembly, Education Authority, Careers Companies and Training Providers.

TPI started its work in Wales in 1990 when its project director David de Chazal met Robert Cornwall and Howard Morgan of the Employment Service. These three people are still at the heart of TPI's work in Wales.

The office in Aberdare was opened in February 2001.