Transitions
Meet the facilitators
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Dr Michael Connor Program Manager PhD (University of Melbourne) |
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As Program Manager, Michael is integral to the design and quality management of the programs and services that Murdoch Executive Education Centre offers. Prior to joining Murdoch, Michael has spent eight years in Singapore where he was Assistant Professor in the division of Strategy, Management and Organization at Nanyang Business School (NBS). In addition to teaching and research, he was active in consulting and executive coaching in a variety of industries and firms across the Asia-Pacific region. As Communications Director for NBS's Office for Executive Education, he developed a comprehensive understanding of executive and professional development. Before going to Singapore, Michael held positions as a lecturer at the University of Melbourne (where he earned his PhD), and at Deakin and Murdoch Universities. His background also includes roles as a professional editor, Communications Manager and Consultant, and Client Manager. |
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Dr Byron Hanson PhD Curtin Graduate School of Business (Western Australia), Master of Leadership and Training, Royal Roads University (Victoria, Canada), Bachelor Business Administration, Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada) |
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Byron has spent over 15 years designing and delivering customised corporate education focused on solving strategic business problems. His research and consulting interests are the macro perspective of employee development. Namely how do the main players in employee development interface towards creating meaningful and effective educational and developmental experiences that meet organisational and individual leader needs? He has been published in the Wall Street Journal, HR People and Strategy Magazine and the Journal of Business and Management. His passion area is leadership development, primarily the facilitation of learning for leaders towards achieving tangible organizational and individual outcomes. His current topics and areas of expertise, include, coaching and teaching, change leadership, translating strategy into action, working across boundaries and global leadership. Byron is the Transitions Program Coordinator, monitoring and supporting the participants in the progress of their LAPs (Learning Application Proposals). Byron began his career working in an HR leadership role for Canada’s largest brewer, Labatt Breweries, providing facilitation, labour relations and employee development and strategy. He has also held various academic and consultant roles engaged in education and organisational development from an international perspective, including a managing director role in the United States for Duke University’s Corporate Education (the number 1 customised corporate education organisation in the world). Most recently, Byron has moved to Perth Western Australia joining Curtin University part time as an Associate Professor of Leadership at the Curtin Graduate School of Business and continues to be a member of the Global Learning Resource Network for Duke University. |
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Dr Lynn Allen MA (UWA), Ph.D (Murdoch), HonDLitt (Curtin), FIPAA, FRS |
| Lynn Allen has extensive experience in senior management roles in universities, the public and private sectors. This includes 12 years as a State Government CEO. She has led major projects that included complex consultation with Local and State governments on technology, governance, legislative and service changes. There were many successful outcomes, several being recognized with awards such as being a finalist in the Premier’s Awards and winning Gold Awards in National IT Productivity Awards. Lynn developed a reputation for the innovative use of technology, including bringing public access to the internet across Western Australia, a national first. From 1983 to 2001 she was a member of whole of government information policy bodies, including the Science, Industry and Technology Council in the 1980s that reported to the then Deputy Premier, Hon. Mal Bryce. She was a member of the Council of Curtin University of Technology for 9 years, including two as Pro-Chancellor. Since leaving the public sector, Lynn has worked in executive education. She has developed, taught and used a planning framework designed to deal with situations where there are multiple, diverse perspectives on potential futures. Lynn specialises in facilitating learning about situations using systems thinking, futures methods and dialogue to create holistic approaches to planning and problem solving. She is an expert in the Soft Systems Methodology and has used this in many complex projects as well as developing and delivering a course for Masters level students. She is currently assisting a major government department and a community sector organisation in their future directions setting. Lynn has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours), a Master of Arts and a Ph.D. She has been State and National President of the peak body for Australian Librarians and Information Professionals. In 2001 she was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters from Curtin University for her contribution to the information and university sectors. In 2010 she was awarded a National Fellow from the Institute of Public Administration Australia for services to policy and public administration. |
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Associate Professor Scott Gardner Murdoch UniversityPhD (Murdoch) |
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Scott has a PhD in strategic management and 18 years’ professional experience in management consultancy and academia. This includes three years as Director of Postgraduate Education at Murdoch University; and eleven as a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor working in Australian, UK and partner institutions in Malaysia and Singapore as a specialist in strategy and change management. He has published extensively in academic and professional journals in the areas of strategy, stakeholder communications, human resources and change management. Scott has also delivered strategic management, HR, change management and change communications consultancy services for a range of major clients in the public and private sectors in Perth, Sydney and Indonesia. He also has extensive experience as a strategic planning facilitator and professional development educator, primarily in the public sector. |
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Ms Annette Perrin Post Grad Cert (Economics); BA (Politics and International Studies); Member Alliancing Association of Australia |
| Annette is a consultant with 10 years experience in the infrastructure and building industries working with both government and private organisations in relationship contracting and team building. Annette has worked on some major collaborative projects across Australia, working with the road, water, electricity, rail and building sectors. She has extensive expertise in strategic procurement and commercial alignment and has worked across organisations and sectors to achieve high performance outcomes. Since working with Alchimie, Annette has supported many clients in creating and sustaining high performance teams during design, development, delivery and completion phases of project and program execution. She has also been involved in organisational development and evolution activities such as change management, strategic planning, entrepreneurial initiatives, organisational ‘health’ reviews, team building and industry engagement. In all of these activities Annette focuses on building business for the 22nd century. Some of Annette’s previous clients include LandCorp, Water Corporation, Fluor Infrastructure, VicRoads, ACT Planning and Land Authority, DTEI South Australia, Major Projects Victoria, Baulderstone, Macmahon, BG&E, Downer EDI Engineering, Sydney Water, and Thiess Services. |
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Dr Guy Curtis BA(Hons) (Murdoch), PhD (UWA),GCertHE (Deakin), International Affiliate of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology |
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Guy Curtis is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology at Murdoch University. He has worked both as an academic and consultant for the past 15 years. Guy completed a PhD in psychology at UWA, and has studied post-graduate business and organisational psychology courses at Murdoch. At present, Guy’s principal teaching responsibilities in psychology at Murdoch are in the organisational psychology Masters degree program. He has also taught in the Schools of Psychology and Organisational and Labour Studies at UWA, and the School of Psychology at the University of Western Sydney. Guy has published numerous scholarly journal articles including papers in International Coaching Psychology Review, the Journal of Leadership Studies, International Journal of Conflict Management, and the Journal of School Leadership. He is also an author of two books including one on leadership. As an educator, Guy is a multi-award-winning university lecturer; for example, he won an Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation for outstanding contribution to student learning in 2011 and was the University of Western Sydney “Lecturer of the Year” winner in 2009. Guy is a registered psychologist and a parent of two young children. |
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Mr Tim Atterton BA Law; Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD); and Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts (FRSA). |
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Tim is an internationally acclaimed business improvement specialist with 25 years' experience in management consultancy and academia. His professional expertise lies in the inter-related areas of entrepreneurship, business transformation and sustainable growth. He has held senior positions at two prestigious international Business Schools.
Currently, Tim is Managing Director of Business Dynamics - a specialist consulting firm that offers strategic development advice to selected blue-ribbon clients. Business Dynamic's past and current client portfolio in Australia contains many well-known National and State award winning companies. Tim is, also, a past Chair of the WA Small Business Development Corporation and, also, an acknowledged Conference Speaker in the areas of entrepreneurship, business re-vitalisation and growth. |
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Rod Griffiths BSc (Manchester); DpBA (Manchester Business School); MA (Lancaster Management School); MA (University of Sydney) |
| Rod is a widely experienced management consultant, coach and facilitator. His expertise covers strategy, systems, organisational performance and personal performance. Collaborating with Dr Michael Connor on Transitions, Rod looks at the art and science of decision making, a vital tool in the development of managerial courage. He has worked with a broad range of clients in Australia, the UK and the Middle East where he has covered topics including strategic and scenario planning, business modelling, information management, leadership development, management systems and personal mastery. He grew up and was educated to Master’s level in the UK. Initially, through an industrial scholarship, he studied science and engineering at University and later studied at Manchester Business School and Lancaster University Management School. Rod is accredited in several diagnostic tools with respect to leadership, organisational culture and values. He cut his teeth in consultancy with McKinsey and Company in London in the 1970’s. Following that, whilst still based in London, he became Managing Director of a University owned consultancy at Lancaster Management School. Whilst working with Shell International in London and The Hague, Rod was asked to lead an internal strategy team at Woodside Offshore Petroleum in Perth. This resulted in Rod moving to Perth in 1987 where he has worked in the petroleum and mining industries as well as the public sector. In Perth he has been an active member of the community and in 2006 became Citizen of the Year for the City of Nedlands. |
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