Trainers

Professor Victor Callan

Professor of Management and Director of Research, UQ Business School

	Qualifications Bachelor of Arts (Hons Class 1) - University of NSW PhD - Australian National University

Victor has over 30 years of experience as a senior university manager, organisational researcher and management educator and consultant. During 2010-11, for example, Victor has been working with senior executives and managers in areas of management and leadership development and various aspects of human resource management and workforce planning for clients such as New Zealand Telecom, IP Australia, Bank of Queensland, Suncorp, Xstrata, Thiess, Lang ORourke, and UQ Executive Programs. He has also completed major reviews for DEEWR in Canberra, DEEFST in Adelaide, and IBSA in Melbourne in the areas of leadership, innovation, and workforce development.

Victor specialises in organisational reviews and change management, human resource management, program evaluation, management and leadership development, management research in terms of qualitative (interviews, focus groups) and more quantitative studies (surveys, analysis of existing organisational data) of organisational performance and employee attitudes, and assists firms in aspects of strategic human resource management.
Victor’s expertise are in: management and leadership development; capability development; 360 degree and survey evaluations; innovation and change management; organisational development; performance management; workforce development; human resource management; organisational behaviour; strategic management; and executive mentoring.

Mr Greg Latemore

Industry Fellow, UQ Business School

	Qualifications Bachelor of Arts - The University of Queensland Master of Management - The University of Queensland

Greg has lectured at UQ Business School since 1997. Greg also conducts or co-conducts a range of public Executive Education Programs for UQ Corporate Education. These programs include: The Leadership Challenge, Educational Leadership, Business Ethics, Sports Leadership; Leading People, Leading Teams; Inspiring Executive Leadership and Business Strategy for Leaders of Human Capital.

Greg is also the Director of Latemore & Associates Pty. Ltd. As a management consultant, he has worked at all levels within organisations throughout Australia, Papua New Guinea and New Zealand in both the public and private sectors. Greg has extensive consulting experience for many Queensland and Commonwealth departments, and private sector organisations.

Greg specialises in strategic management, executive coaching, change management, executive and management development and team building. He is qualified in a range of development tools, including the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Benchmarks, Profilor, the Multi-Factor Leadership Questionnaire, Strategic Alignment, Lominger/VOICES, EQi, EQ 360, and the suite of tools through Team Management Systems.

He has facilitated many team building workshops and has acted as a third-party facilitator in conflict resolution and role negotiation since 1981. He provides executive coaching and is an experienced conference presenter and workshop facilitator.

Professor Kambiz Maani

Professor & Chair in Systems Thinking and Practice, University of Queensland

	Qualifications MSc, Industrial Engineering – University of Illinois PhD, Operations Research – University of Illinois

Kambiz is an internationally acknowledged expert in Systems Thinking and Organisational Learning with an academic and consulting career that spans over 28 years in the USA, Australasia, Asia and South America. He is an acknowledged author, inspirational speaker and researcher on systems thinking, complexity management, leadership and organisational learning.

Kambiz has lectured internationally and has held visiting positions at a number of universities including MIT, London Business School, Boston University, Cornell and Helsinki School of Economics. Professor Maani’s research focuses on complex systems, group decision making, managerial effectiveness, and collective learning in organisations. He is the recipient of several research and publication awards from international academic journals. His current consulting projects include strategy/policy design and implementation with several corporations and government agencies in Australia, New Zealand, China and South East Asia. His corporate clients include KPMG, Fairfax, UNISYS, Aetna Health, Fisher & Paykel (NZ), Fonterra (NZ), and numerous government departments around the world.

Kambiz has published widely and has consulted to numerous organisations and governments worldwide. He is co-author of internationally acclaimed book: Systems thinking, Systems Dynamics - Managing Change and Complexity. The book, now in its second edition, is used widely at universities, governments and organisations around the world.

Associate Professor Frank Pollard

Program Director, Graduate Certificate in Leadership and Management, Griffith Business School

	Qualifications Master of Marketing Master of Management (Innovation & Change) Master of Science (Integrated Human Studies) – currently studying

Frank has a broad range of executive experience working in and with large corporate organisations as both a senior executive and external consultant. He has worked specifically in the area of leadership development for the past six years. Frank does this in his own consultancy practice (Leadership and Organisational Development) and is also an Associate Professor and program director in the Griffith Business School, responsible for a post graduate leadership program.

Frank is particularly interested in the following areas related to leadership:

Values: personal integrity; recognition of the worth of others.
Interpersonal competency: emotional intelligence; communication skills.
Adaptability: recognition of personal limitations, ability to engage others in providing solutions (asking the right questions), ability to operate in environments of uncertainty.
Influence: understanding the levers of change.
Organisational climate and culture: identifying aspects of culture and organisational climate; understanding competing values.
Integrated thinking: as a way to view complexity and resolve ‘wicked problems’.
Appreciative inquiry: as a productive and positive way to view and manage change.

Dr André Taylor

Leadership Specialist, International WaterCentre

	Qualifications Bachelor of Science (Hons Class 1) – University of Tasmania Master of Environmental Management – University of Queensland PhD – Monash University

André is an environmental and social scientist. In 1991 he began working as an environmental manager. In the mid 1990s he specialised in urban water and waterway management. In the mid 2000s he became a specialist in institutional capacity building and leadership development.

He currently works as the International WaterCentre’s Leadership Specialist and directs his own consulting business (André Taylor Consulting). He also coordinates a Masters level leadership course (Leadership in a Complex Environment) for the University of NSW. He has previously held positions within Monash University, Ecological Engineering, the WA Water and Rivers Commission, Brisbane City Council, Woodward Clyde Pty Ltd, and the Tasmanian Department of Environment.

André undertook his PhD on emergent leaders (‘champions’) in the sustainable urban water industry. His leadership-related experience includes:

Experience in designing, delivering and evaluating leadership development and training programs that have been customised through local research.
US trained: The ASTD’s Creating Leadership Development Programs Certificate (2008).
Trained coach and mentor: The AIM’s Coaching & Mentoring Program (2009).
Keynote conference speaker and published author on environmental leadership and leadership development.

He is also experienced practitioner in urban water cycle policy, governance and management, working on numerous water-related capacity building programs and projects in QLD, WA, NSW, VIC and NZ. He also has extensive experience in group and meeting facilitation (usually with a technical focus), including design, delivery and evaluation of technical training.

Associate Professor Elisabeth Wilson-Evered

Associate Professor in Management, Victoria University

	Qualifications BA, Psychology – Victoria University MA, Prelim – Melbourne University Master of Organisational Psychology – University of Queensland Diploma in Project Management – Australian Institute of Project Management PhD, Leadership and Innovation – Monash University Graduate Certificate in Higher Education – Monash University

Elisabeth is an accomplished educator, researcher, leader, supervisor and trainer. Her passion involves drawing on the intersection between science and practice and ensuring there is a strong link between the two so that reciprocal exchange occurs. Throughout her career she has been engaged in teaching, education and the professional development of others. She has been fortunate to work with and benefit from inspiring leaders working in industry, academic, not-for-profit and education. Grant successes at university include an ARC Discovery Grant and a number of industry grants focussing on leadership, teams and communication.

Elisabeth’s professional history has included a variety of research, lecturing and management roles at Victoria University, Monash University, University of Queensland, Relationships Australia, Queensland Health, Australian Regular Army (Psychology Corps), and the Royal Women’s Hospital Melbourne.

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