ABSTRACT

Sustainably competent professionals are what the society needs, in huge quantities, in all kinds of professions, and across every thinkable sector: industry, service, finance, government, healthcare, education, farming, fishing, and forestry. People need them in multinational companies, small and medium enterprises (SMEs), family-owned businesses, commercial companies, NGOs, and informal associations. RESFIA+D is a tool that can be used in several ways to design personal development plans, to facilitate professional training in human resources within a company, or to develop curricula in institutions of higher education. While the RESFIA+D competence model was being used in these various ways for a number of years, it became clear that readers felt a need for concrete examples from real people who expressed one or more of those competences in an interesting or even an excellent way – role models acting in real life.