Background
He was born to Canadian television journalist Margot Rita Wallace, and Naval Officer Daniel Lionel Hanington in Portsmouth, England.
He was born to Canadian television journalist Margot Rita Wallace, and Naval Officer Daniel Lionel Hanington in Portsmouth, England.
As a young man, Hanington was educated at Eaton House in Sloane Square before the family moved to Canada where he attended Sedbergh School in Montebello, Quebec, and then later Carleton University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts Honours in English.
Hanington joined the at 16, and trained as a Watchkeeper and Navigating Officer where he served on various ships including HMCS ALGONQUIN with astronaut Marc Garneau. In 1976, he left sea to become the Base Information Officer at CFB Halifax. During this time, Hanington produced and hosted a North Atlantic Treaty Organization military strategy news show called The Last Dogwatch.
In 1982, Hanington was asked to be the first-ever communications director for the, where he again produced and hosted a television interview show called A Question of Faith.
He presented the first copy personally to Pope John Paul World War II In 1984-1986, he was asked to serve as the director of the, which he revived from near-bankruptcy. By doubling the number of venues, and almost tripling the number of entries, Hanington, who was described that year by Cinema Canada magazine as being a “creative iconoclast in a suit” helped turn the from a local gathering of amateur filmmakers into a cultural event of national stature.
In 1988, Hanington incorporated, a company of writers, and moved the business to Ottawa. He spent the next 10 years traveling extensively through the developing world, creating documentaries that showcased the relief work Canadians were doing abroad.
Hanington led the agency to write for Prime Ministers, Presidents, Knights and the Pope.
Stiff Sentences was the only ever International Organization for Standardization 9000 registered company of writers. Hanington created the System, a system of writing-quality assurance. Through this internal management system, helped organizations set a writing standard, and ensured all employees could meet lieutenant
This training tool was further developed into the Online Training System.
The training wing of then split off to form Corporation, which sold seminar and online writing training throughout North America. China In 2007, Corporation moved to China, where Hanington wrote and created interactive English as a foreign language online products to help the Chinese to speak and write in English, under the Journey to English banner.