Dr Joshua Chang
BSc (Hons) (Ireland), MBA (W.Sydney), DBA (Canberra)
Joshua's expertise lies
in the area of e-business and marketing. He has experience in
the startup and management of online businesses, including
a stock investment forum that was mentioned in the Wall Street Journal
and attracted business from corporations such as the Financial Times,
Ernst & Young, and Ericsson.
Joshua is currently
a marketing lecturer at the University of Wollongong. He is the editor-in-chief
of the Journal of Internet Business, and has published and presented
internationally.
Dr Julia Connell
MA (Reading), PhD (Newcastle),
BAM, CAHRI
Julia
is an Associate Professor at the Newcastle Graduate School of Business,
University of
Newcastle
and Assistant Dean
(International) for the Faculty of Business and Law, with over 22 years
experience in education and management development. Specialist areas
include a range of general Management areas with a particular focus
on Organisational
Change. Julia’s work has been published in a wide range of books and
journals both in Australia and overseas such as Managerial Psychology (UK),
the Journal of Strategic Change (UK) and International Advances in Management
(US). She has co-edited six special issues of journals and three books – the
latest being ‘Globalisation and Work in Asia’. Julia has taught
in the UK, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Vietnam.
Julia has successfully designed and delivered a number of management and
organisational change programs, in addition to providing consulting advice.
Organisations include: Macquarie Generation, Newcastle City Council, Maitland
City Council, Energy Australia, ANI Comsteel, The Victorian Meat Council,
Ampcontrol, HunterNet, the Hunter Area Consultative Committee, the NSW Police
Service, Baptist Community Services, Newcastle Permanent, QBE and Vietnam
Airlines.
Dr
Robert Evans
BBus(WAIT), MBus PhD(Curtin), CPA
Robert holds the position of Professor
and Director at the Graduate School of Business at Curtin University.
Prior to his appointment at Curtin Robert
held senior roles in the private sector and government agencies providing
him with over twenty years professional and managerial experience in
corporate and government enterprises. Robert delivers innovative programs
that explore
the boundaries of finance with other business disciplines and demonstrate
its operation in an organisational context. He draws not only from academic
literature, but from real experience in the workplace and he encourages
participants to broaden this through their own contribution. Robert receives
regular positive feedback from numerous large organisations that utilise
his skills including Telstra and the Law Society of Western Australia.
Dr
Linda Herkenhoff
MS (Berkeley), MBA (St Mary's), PhD (W.Aust)
Linda is the former
Vice-President of Human Resources within EDS - Electronic Data Systems
(a Fortune
500 company
with over 117,000 employees),
and played a consulting role for senior management in Bechtel. She is
the immediate past Director of Human Resources for Stanford University.
She
is currently a Senior Advisor for the Andrew Mellon Foundation in association
with a healthcare initiative for higher education, and is also a faculty
member in the Graduate School of Business at Saint Mary’s College
in Moraga, CA, where she specialises in Organisational Behavior.
Dr Steven McShane
BBus (IR) (Queens), MIR (Toronto), PhD (Michigan State)
As Professor of Management
in the Graduate School of Management at the University of Western Australia,
Steven L. McShane is actively
involved
in developing
current and future leaders in Australia and around Asia. Steve specialises
in personal and interpersonal skills development. Steve developed and
led the University of Western Australian team in the highly regarded
and very
successful
leadership development programs delivered to the Singapore Armed Forces
from 2000-2004.
Over the past six years, he has also facilitated leadership development
at several organisations, some of which include Centrelink, Australian Healthcare
Association, Wesfarmers, ALCOA, and Peters Brownes Group. In addition to
teaching and consulting, Steve is the author or co-author of three highly
popular organisational behaviour textbooks in the United States, Canada,
and the Pacific Rim (Australia, New Zealand, and Asia).
Phillip Morgan
B.Bus (Mkt), MA (Hons), FAMI, CPM
Phillip Morgan has had over 30 years experience in the marketing industry
in senior management positions in a retail and wholesale organisation, as
a director and operator of a restaurant group in Melbourne and Sydney, in
marketing academia, and provided marketing services including consultancy
and facilitation across many industries and situations. He is the Managing
Director of the Grassroots Group. He consults to industry extensively predominantly
within the service sector and contract lectures to a number of Graduate
Schools of Management in Australia and South East Asia.
Phillip is a Fellow of the Australian Marketing Institute (FAMI), a Certified
Practicing Marketer (CPM), has served on Boards for the Royal Dental Hospital
of Melbourne and Holmes Colleges and has been the Australian representative
of the Asia Pacific Marketing Federation being instrumental in assisting
the development of the Certified Professional Marketer (Asia Pacific). He
was a member of the Steering Committee of the GP Perception Project for
the Central Coast Area Health, Alcohol and Other Drug Service from 1999
to 2002 and is a member of the Board of the Association of Health Care Research
in the US. He is the immediate past Chair of the Australian Marketing Institute
Hunter Group, having served on both the NSW and Victorian State Councils.
He has been a senior lecturer at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
and was on the full-time staff of the Newcastle Graduate School of Business
(NGSB) at the University of Newcastle and was Director of Executive Programmes
for the NGSB. He is a member of the adjunct faculty of the Australian Graduate
School of Management (AGSM), the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS),
the Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM), the Adelaide Graduate
School of Business (AGSB), and the Newcastle Graduate School of Business.
Dr
Chris Perryer
MBA (Curtin), DBA (W.Aust), GCertPubSectMgt (Griffith), AIMM
Chris
is a lecturer at The University of Western Australia’s
Graduate School of Management, where he teaches in the areas of international
management
and organisational theory.
Chris
began his career as a civil engineering draftsman, but found administration
and management
more to his taste.
He has subsequently
acquired more than
twenty year’s experience as a manager in the private and public sectors,
working in Australia, Papua New Guinea and the United Kingdom. In recent
years he has also undertaken numerous consulting projects in Australia
and the Asia-Pacific region, mainly in the area of management development
training.
These projects have involved working with organisations in the public
and private sectors, including the Australian Public Service, the Singapore
Armed Forces and the Fiji Employers Federation. Chris has addressed professional
audiences in Australia and the Philippines on a range of topics, most
recently
on cross-cultural and comparative management issues. He specialises in
presenting short seminars on risk management in international business
operations, cross-cultural communication and negotiation, and the management
of expatriate
workforces.
Ian Ralston
Ian is Managing Director of Nine Dots Consulting. Ian's ability
to think laterally and outside the square manifests itself in the
business name – Outside the Nine Dots. Ian is an advocate for the
promotion of Values Driven organisations. Ian has worked with management
guru Richard Barrett. After being inspired by Richard's
book "Unleash the Corporate Soul", Ian underwent training
in the Corporate Transformation Tools (CTT) Methodology.
On
a personal level Ian is a "Baby-boomer", growing up with
technology. Ian started in the computer industry when they were "steam
driven and he was a stoker".
Through his work in Information Technology Ian has worked with many
different industries
including motor, health, insurance, local government, mining, defence
and major IT organisations.
Ian's interest in and involvement with personal
development has enhanced his ability to listen and hear what is being said.
Ian's personal qualities include being approachable, flexible and empathetic
and respectful of other's opinions and beliefs. Ethics, balance between
work and home, environmental awareness combined with enthusiasm and open,
honest communication are values that Ian is passionate about. This is demonstrated
in his professional and personal relationships.
John
Taya
BBus (Curtin), MIR (UWA)
John Taya is the Executive Director Human Resources at Main Roads Western
Australia which has won a number of national Human Resource awards for best
practice in human resource strategy, attraction and retention, and aging
strategies. Main Roads has been the Western Australian AHRI Award winner
in 2004 and 2005. John has previously lectured in the MBA programs at the
Graduate School of Management at the University of Western Australia and
at the Graduate School of Business at Curtin University. John specialises
in delivering programs to senior managers on current trends in Human Resource
Management.
Yvette Vignando
B.A., L.L.B. (Hons), L.L.M.
Yvette
Vignando, B.A., L.L.B. (Hons), L.L.M. is the principal of Emotional
Intelligence Development
Australia (EIDA)
and is among Australia’s most well informed and qualified practitioners
in the area of Emotional Intelligence. Her clients include large public
and private corporations and leaders in the not for profit sector. She
has presented numerous workshops on Emotional Intelligence to corporations
and
in the education sector, and has successfully coached senior managers
and teams. Yvette works in the areas of leadership development, team
development and mentoring and coaching.
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