Training Instructors

Dr Sara Cullen

Sara is the Founder and Managing Director of The Cullen Group, a specialist organisation offering consulting, training, and publications regarding commercial agreements. She is also a Fellow at the University of Melbourne and an Associate at the London School of Economics. Previously she was a National Partner at Deloitte in Australia.

Dr. Cullen specialises in the design, negotiation, and management of commercial agreements. She has consulted to 149 commercial and government sector organisations, spanning 51 countries, in comprising $18 billion in contract value. She has facilitated contracts in a large variety of organisational areas including call centres, claims mgmt, construction, facilities mgmt, finance, food services, HR, logistics, IT, maintenance, recreational services, sales, and security. She has designed partnering arrangements, franchise-type agreements, shared risk/reward structures and incentive programs as well as traditional arrangements.

Dr. Cullen is a widely published author. She has written 19 books and 126 best practice and research publications. She has been featured in such publications as the Australian Financial Review, BRW, the Bulletin, Directions in Government, European Journal of Information Systems, Information Economics Journal, Insurance Directions, Oxford Handbook, Outlook India, and Strategic Asset Management. Her expertise is globally recognised and she performs peer reviews regarding outsourcing research for the Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. Dr. Cullen lectures at many universities including Melbourne, Monash, Swinburne, QUT, RMIT, Seoul and the Australian Defence Force Academy.

Dr. Cullen earned her PhD in the area of contracting from the University of Melbourne, she was awarded a Masters of Management from Melbourne Business School, and obtained a BSc in accounting from St. Cloud State University (US). She is also a Chartered Accountant (US), and a Certified Mediator.

Terry Reid

Terry has over 27 years’ experience as a barrister and solicitor and in the delivery of courses on a variety of legal and commercial topics, covering a wide range of audiences.

After his studies Terry spend a period in the banking and finance sector advising banks on a range of financing transactions he entered legal practice working in the corporate/commercial areas. During this time in legal practice he was engaged in teaching at universities and he now mixes teaching with legal consultancy.

Terry’s legal practice has focused on business law, contracts and corporations’ law, and has been involved in providing advice on a wide range of business transactions. His clients have ranged from small businesses owned by individuals to large publicly listed companies.

Terry regularly advises the Asian Development Bank, World Bank and Governments’ on business law reform. As well as working in Australia and New Zealand he has worked extensively in South East Asia and the Pacific. This advisory work includes the provision of advice to governments on business law policy, design of reform programs as well as drafting legislative instruments.

Combining an exceptional legal mind with business experience, Terry’s courses are delivered with a very high degree of interaction with participants gaining an insightful view of how the law can be beneficial in their business.

Terry regularly provides courses for professional organisations, public and private sector clients, advising on topics such as contract law, legal compliance in the business sector and regulatory reform in financial markets.

Alana Dowley

Alana is the Legal Services Director of Encore Legal Pty Ltd. After several years in practice, Alana recognised that most disputes could and should have been averted before reaching lawyers. Therefore, she began training industry groups and revolutionised legal service delivery to adopt a more mentoring and consulting model.

Alana runs training courses in contract law, contract management and dispute resolution – recognising that up-skilling in these industries is a crucial part of service provision that has been long neglected by the legal profession.

The consulting and mentoring that Alana and her team offer to clients also includes advice on tenders, contracts, claims and disputes. Alana endeavours to impart knowledge, understanding,
systems technology and expert advice into industry to improve the standard of contract management to increase efficiency, promote good practice and minimise costly disputes.

Sean McCarthy

Prior to the study and practise of law, Sean spent over 20 years in building and construction in various roles featuring project management. He ran his own successful building company in Melbourne for 7 years. Here he navigated contract and site management as well as dealing with planning and regulatory issues.

Over the last decade, Sean has focused on construction, procurement, contracts and general property and commercial law in both his studies and in legal practice. He has been “in-house” legal practitioner for a major ACT government directorate providing advice across all facets of operations, and dealing with infrastructure disputes for the latter part of 2012.

Sean teaches part time at both ANU and the University of Canberra law faculties, and is currently a director at the Society of Construction Law Australia. He has written awarded papers on the
role of “ethics” within the construction industry.

Dr Hugh Outhred

Hugh Outhred is the Managing Director of Ipen Pty Ltd, a company established in 1998 to provide independent perspectives on energy, society and the environment. Hugh holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Sydney and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Energy.

Since 1988, Hugh has provided advice to governments, non government organisations, the electricity supply industry and private industry and delivered 130 training courses in 15 countries on electricity industry design and renewable energy integration for participants from governments, non government organisations, the electricity supply industry and private industry.

Hugh has contributed to the theory of electricity industry design since 1979 and to its practical implementation in Australia since the 1980’s. In 1985 and 1986, he was seconded to the government of New South Wales as an advisor on electricity competition and sustainability. In 1995 and 1996, he led a project for the National Grid Management Council to undertake electricity trading experiments to trial the proposed National Electricity Market trading rules prior to their formal implementation. In 1997, he was appointed as an inaugural member of the NSW Licence Compliance Advisory Board, a position he held until the Board was replaced as part of revised industry governance arrangements in 2001 and in 1998 he was appointed as an inaugural member of the Australian National Electricity Tribunal – a position he held until the Tribunal was replaced as part of revised industry governance arrangements in 2006. In 2008, Hugh was a Lead Author for the IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation, which was published in 2011.

Hugh retired from the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications at the University of New South Wales in September 2007 from the positions of inaugural Presiding Director of UNSW’s Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets and Head, Energy Systems Research Group in the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications.

Hugh was a Fulbright Senior Fellow at the University of California Berkeley in 1994 and has held visiting positions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA, the University of Liverpool in the UK, the Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Spain, Roskilde University Centre in Denmark and Murdoch University in Perth. He has been a Board member of the Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Renewable Energy, an Associate Director of UNSW’s Centre for Photovoltaic Devices and Systems and a member of CSIRO’s Energy Flagship Advisory Committee.

Joshua Bowman

Josh completed his BEng (Elec) from the University of Newcastle in 2016. He joined Safearth in 2017 and has specialised in the discipline of earthing. Josh has provided consulting expertise to a range of infrastructure projects across many industries, including utilities, renewables rail and mining.

He is responsible for earthing projects from initial design, through to commissioning and ongoing maintenance assessment. Josh has been involved in both the design and testing of earthing and bonding systems for a number of large rail and road projects such as Sydney Metro. Josh’s current role with Safearth as a consulting engineer continues to provide opportunities for him to work across industries, and develop and assess earthing and bonding systems for many applications. Josh has experience presenting the Safearth earthing system design training courses.

Sandi Givens

Sandi has a unique ability to connect with, engage and enthuse her entire audience, irrespective of size, demographic or skill level. Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, and leading-edge educational and learning technologies enable Sandi to inspire people to incorporate new behaviours and attitudes in their daily lives.

With over 25 years of professional experience in training and management, her primary goal is to help people learn, rather than merely tell them what to do. For the past 14 years, Sandi has worked as a consultant and director of her own company, Knowledge-Able Pty Ltd.

Sandi is skilled in the areas of needs analysis, program design and development, customisation for individual clients and post-program coaching to ensure application of new skills and behaviours in the workplace.

Stephen Palmer

Stephen is an earthing specialist, and has extensive experience in all earthing related works including design, audit and test in industries including generators, utilities, heavy industry, mining and rail.

Stephen began his career at BHP’s Newcastle Steelworks in 1987 as a trainee. In his 12 years with BHP engineering groups he worked in a variety of sites and fields including communications, process control and automation, MMI and drives.

In 1993 he graduated in electrical engineering with honours from Newcastle University. He later received his graduate diploma in business management from the same institution.

Following BHP, Stephen spent 11 years with Energy Australia’s safearth group (now called network earthing) in a range of roles including consulting manager. He is now a director and the principal engineer of Safearth Consulting, the independent business formed following Energy Australia’s withdrawal from the external market.

Stephen has extensive experience in earthing system management, design, audit and testing, lightning protection systems and induction risk management across a range of industries.

Stephen’s work with Safearth in a rail specific environment includes work on the Sunbury electrification project – providing general earthing consulting; at the Varsity Lakes rail project (an alliance including QR) in Queensland working with remedial design and commissioning; for Railcorp he provided distribution earthing design and augmentation; Stephen also provided rail induction, hazards and a signalling interference study for a rail line situated parallel to a 330kb transmission line for Transgrid and ARTC.

Michael Williams OAM

Michael is an energy professional with 40+ years of worldwide experience particularly in gas and LNG, most recently in Australia, China and Taiwan and. He has expertise in all technical and commercial phases of the gas and LNG business, and is acknowledged by industry experts, governments and government expert committees. He has proven abilities in technical design, project development, strategy and building and leading teams.

Michael is now an independent consultant. Was a non-executive company director of Epic Energy Holdings, a gas pipeline company, and is a member of the Panel of Experts of the Western Australian Gas Review Board. Previously he had a 33 year international career with Shell, culminating as Managing Director (Gas & Power) for the Shell Companies in North East Asia.

With vast experience working with governments, Michael has been acknowledged as a major influence in for changing China’s energy policy to import LNG and to utilise gas. Locally Michael had a 3 year secondment to the Western Australian Government as Development Director for the Department of Resources Development where he liaised, negotiated with and assisted senior ministers and policy developers.

Michael’s influence on the development of energy policy in China and in Taiwan was recognised by the Energy Working Group of APEC and by the associated policy development body, APERC (Asia Pacific Energy Research Centre, based in Tokyo). For a number of years he recommended and critique energy policies developed by APERC.

Michael was the inaugural manager of the onshore treatment plant of the North West Shelf LNG Project in Karratha, Western Australia, where he set up the organisation and managed the start-up and operation of the plant. As several innovative organisational concepts were pioneered, this involved complex, successful negotiations with unions to secure their buy-in, all against a tight timeframe.

Michael has a bachelor of engineering, with honors. He is also a fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Australian Institute of Energy.

Michael was awarded an Order of Australia Medal by the Australian Government in 2015 for services to the LNG industry.

Richard Harrison

Richard is a private consultant in the field of natural gas market development with 40 years in the business and is interested also in the integration of commercial and environmental opportunities offered by the use of natural gas.

Richard was formerly with the Shell Group of Companies for 30 years. His final post was General Manager, Natural Gas and Project Development Manager for Shell in China from 1997 to 2001. His main responsibility was to develop a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import project, as well as sales and marketing of natural gas, in China.

Richard acted as the Shell delegate on the joint venture project committee of the Australian North West Shelf LNG project between 1993 and 1997. During that period he was also gained government experience in a part-time secondment to the COAG Natural Gas Taskforce (to develop a national gas regulatory regime) to coordinate and report on the deliberations of the Upstream Working Group. He served on the NWS Exploration Committee from 1985 to 1990.

Prior to that, Richard was involved in managing the application of onshore and offshore technologies for Shell’s own exploration and production program – the successful development of gas projects for base and peak load duties in the UK Southern North Sea gas province, gas and oil venture assessments in Russia, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, and deep-water gas and oil discoveries in the Philippines.

Richard has developed and currently facilitates an internationally recognised course on LNG and gas projects. He was formerly an occasional lecturer with the short course program of the University of New South Wales, School of Petroleum Engineering. Richard has a Bachelor of Science (Physics) and a Bachelor of Arts (Mathematics & Economics) from the University of Melbourne.

Craig Langford

Craig Langford is director of MDQ Consulting which provides strategic and commercial energy advice to a range of upstream, industrial and power generation companies. MDQ Consulting specialises in the development of gas market business strategy, negotiation and execution of the full range of gas industry agreements.

MDQ Consulting’s project work has included:

Gas Price Reviews – Commercial settlement of an east coast gas price review, delivering over 10% additional contract value to the client

Asset Transactions – Sale of a client’s PNG upstream gas interests to a major international oil and gas company, $3m over the prevailing asset book value, farm down of Australian oil and gas interests and gas supply and transport portfolio due diligence for an intermediate gas fired power station transaction

Project Commercialisation – Gas marketing for upstream clients in Queensland and Victoria; Marketing of pipeline transportation and gas storage services; and development of new gas supply and transportations models for low merit peak power stations across eastern Australia

Strategic – Development of gas market and company growth strategies for upstream and major downstream companies

Prior to MDQ Consulting, Craig worked for over 12 years at Santos in a number of senior strategic and commercial roles. During the last 5 years, he was responsible for leading the commercial activities for Santos’ east Australian gas business. This has provided him with a unique ‘hands on’ experience of being an industry leader during major developments in the east coast gas market.

As member of the Santos’ commercial executive team, Craig’s east Australian gas responsibilities involved long term strategy development, gas marketing, short term operational management, major contract price reviews, gas tolling/swaps, joint venture management, and business development.

Craig was also responsible for Cooper Basin, eastern Queensland oil infrastructure and third party access and management of Santos’ retail and wholesale trading business in Victoria.

Craig’s experience also included negotiating and documentation of 60+ joint venture, operating, LNG sale, gas transportation, LNG technology licensing and new company agreements, associated with Santos’s investment in the $8b Bayu Undan/Darwin LNG project.

Craig has in depth operational understanding and market experience across the Australian gas industry and has represented Santos and APPEA on a number of government and industry groups, including APPEA’s representative on the Gas Market Leaders Group (responsible for development of the wholesale spot markets in Sydney and Adelaide) and a Santos committee member on the South Australian branch of the Institute of Energy.

He holds a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Queensland and Masters of Business from QUT.

Dale Cole

Dale boasts an impressive 58 years in the international maritime industry.

Dale had 20 years’ experience as a seafarer. He was master, new building superintendent and acting marine superintendent for the last 7 years with a British company based in Hong Kong.

After leaving the sea Dale spent 11 years as a Queensland shipwright surveyor, examiner of state marine qualifications, port pilot and harbour master. In 1984 he joined Howard Smith Industries where he became CEO of their towage and salvage businesses.

During the past 15 years he has advised port authorities, port companies and regulators on towage and pilotage pricing issues, taught off-shore navigation and maritime law and provided shipping casualty expert advice.

Dale is a member of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority’s advisory committee, and is Executive Chairman of the National Bulk Commodities Group

Peter Giutronich

Peter is a dynamic corporate trainer with 25 years experience in the field of personal and professional growth. Graduating with a double degree in Law and Commerce, Peter worked in the corporate world for 10 years before training in the Hoffman process. This internationally accredited psychotherapeutic program offers extraordinary potential in assisting individuals toward positive life changes.

Peter subsequently established a private consulting practice in Sydney, developing cultural change programs for groups and organisations. In doing so, Peter began to facilitate organisation change, and became keenly aware that change often fails due to ineffective communication and role modeling by leaders. Good personal leadership drives effective corporate leadership that in turns drives a productive and constructive culture.

Having seen, first-hand and consistently, the importance of effective leadership to successful organisation change, Peter now specialises in individual leader development. “Whenever I see outstanding corporate performance I see outstanding leadership”.

An engaging presenter, he focuses on observable and measurable change across the full complement of executive behaviours: effective communication, persuasion and influence, vision and goal setting, team building, performance management, conflict resolution and mediation.

Through his experience as a personal development consultant, Peter is skilled at perceiving potential obstacles for new and developing leaders and helping those individuals renounce and overcome those behavioural challenges. Peter’s perceptions are verified through his qualified use of tools including Human Synergistics LSI, Emotional Intelligence, the Enneagram and DISC. He uses these instruments to raise awareness, understanding and growth. Peter’s programs empower individuals and groups to surface, discuss and resolve root causes of unhelpful behaviours, including resistance to change, team dysfunction, and poor motivation.

Peter’s consultancy work involves mentoring, coaching, and delivering workshops with senior management, in which he imparts skills that senior executives can then pass on down the line. His engagements have involved a variety of workplaces. Clients range from new companies keen to begin their initiatives with clear goals and behavioural implementation pathways, to organizations where the culture is entrenched and suboptimal behaviours seem intractable. Peter has worked with a variety of NGO’s and assisted their Boards and their Executive in developing strategy and structure for their ongoing operation. Peter has also been working for some years in the resource sector, which has led him to focus on safety leadership and the importance of cultural norms and individual personal responsibility. He is particularly interested in the link between ones’ beliefs and thinking and ones’ behaviour. This has led to significant improvements in the safety records of the companies for which he works.

Peter has clients across a wide spectrum of industry, both in Australia and internationally. He is currently involved with the Resource Sector, Government agencies, small business, NGOs and multinational corporations including Anglo Gold Ashanti, Banker Trust, Westpac, AAMC, Exxon Mobil, NSW Department of Education and Training, Liverpool Hospital, Pillar Administration, Leo Burnett Australia, St Anthony Family Care, The Holdsworth Community Centre, Northcott Society and L’Oreal Australia.

Scott Thomson

Scott Thomson is a geologist with over 40 years experience in the coal mining and energy industries. He has held leadership roles in industry and has worked as a consultant to the Unconventional Gas, Coal Seam Gas (CSG) and
coal mining industry for the past 20 years. He has been a managing director of a leading directional drilling service and technology supply company, and a Research Leader in coal seam gas associated with a major Australian CRC.

Scott is Managing Director of CoalBed Energy Consultants (www.coalbed.com.au), which provides project management, technical services, business development, due diligence and consulting services in unconventional gas, coal mining, CBM (CSG), Coal Mine Methane (CMM), drilling, fugitive emissions and related areas. CoalBed counts in its client list all of the major mining companies in Australia, and many CSG players. Scott and his son Duncan have developed popular training courses in Unconventional Gas, Coal Mining Fundamentals, CBM Fundamentals, CBM production and completion, and drilling which have been delivered to a range of clients in Australia and overseas.

CoalBed have developed unique skills in the evaluation of fugitive emissions from shallow open cut mining operations and act as Estimators for companies reporting to the National Greenhouse Officer for Carbon Tax compliance. The company also manages surface to inseam directional drilling programs for geological exploration and degasification, and have developed expertise in the use of directional drilling data for improved geological modelling.

Scott has worked in most of the major unconventional gas basins throughout the world, and assisted with technology transfer of advanced directional drilling technology into emerging markets such as China, India, South Africa, Central-Asia and Eastern Europe. Recent related experience includes developing projects in Indonesia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, South America and Southern Africa.

Scott is the author of a number of papers that have been published in a range of journals and proceedings, and was also a co-recipient of the prestigious Stefanko Award for best paper at the 2007 SME Conference in Denver, CO, USA for a paper titled “A Petroleum Industry Approach to Coal Mine Drainage”.

He holds a BSc in Geology from the University of Newcastle, an MSc in Geology from the University of New England and an MBA from Deakin University. He is a member of the Geological Society of Australia and the Society of Petroleum Engineers.

Isabel Deeble

With over 28 years’ experience in research, consulting and training Isabel conducts numerous corporate programs and one‐on‐one coaching in leadership and communication for private and corporate clients.

University trained and with an extensive background in performing arts, Isabel has credentials, experience and accreditation in presentation skills, behavioural styles, interpersonal communication and visual credibility.

Isabel has also been trained in the USA in internationally recognised principles of influence and persuasion. Isabel applies these principles to her content and processes as they are critical to effective leadership negotiation. Isabel also incorporates learnings and insights of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) into her training and consulting. She is an accomplished public speaker and is vice‐president of the National Speakers Association of Australia (NSW).

She is a communication specialist who is an entertaining and compelling presenter, effectively engaging her audiences and leaving them enthused to take personal action to enhance their leadership, persuasion and negotiation skills.

Isabel has been a consultant to The Dept of Foreign Affairs and Trade training SE Asian trade commissioners and senior members of the Ministry of Education in China. Her current clients range in size from one‐person businesses to large merchant banks. Current clients include Ernst and Young, Dept of State and Regional Development, Swiss RE, Macquarie Bank, WorkCover Authority, Global Medical Solutions Australia and LJ Hooker.

Course attendees benefit directly from the ‘take‐away’ useful skills they learn. Isabel ensures that her workshops are practical, interactive and produce change‐oriented outcomes. She is passionate about helping her client’s project confidence, credibility, competence and personal power to achieve success in leadership.

Alan Fell

Alan Fell is a UK-based and internationally recognised & respected specialist in the subject of Strategy Management. He brings a special focus on both the development and usage of the Balanced Scorecard (the #1 strategy management tool) and the challenges of successfully implementing the chosen strategy of the organisation.

After a successful career at senior executive level with a major UK Bank, Alan has operated as an independent management consultant and trainer for the last 20 years, helping organisations and individual training delegates to improve their strategy management capabilities. During this period, he has run well over 400 training programmes / workshops.

During this 20 year period, Alan has focused primarily upon both the Middle East and SE Asia markets, but also covers engagements in the UK, North America and Australasia, with his work encompassing a wide range of industry sectors. He has extensive experience in consulting, at executive level, with organisations as they address the challenges of successful strategy management.

Alan brings a pragmatic and disciplined approach to his subjects and carries a firm conviction of the importance of management ownership to both the processes and cultural aspects of achieving successful strategy execution.

In total, Alan has more than 30 years of direct experience in all aspects of strategy management, and is keen to share this vast experience with his delegates.

He is a Senior Associate of the Balanced Scorecard Institute (www.balancedscorecard.org) and runs many of the Associates public training and in-house engagements especially in the Middle East. In addition he is also a member of the Beyond Budgeting Round Table (www.bbrt.org) bringing a fresh approach to the challenges of executive management philosophy.

Dr Bob McDonald

Bob is a Balanced Scorecard Institute Senior Associate, a certified Balanced Scorecard Master Professional and Managing Director of a management consulting organization based in Australia. With a PhD in science and experience as a researcher, he brings a strong scientific and evidence-based approach to his work, ensuring that best practice approaches are adopted, while at the same time always looking for new and creative ways of improving processes and outcomes.

His main areas of expertise are strategy development and its effective implementation, evaluation of major programs and systems, and performance measurement and management.

Bob has worked in private, public and not-for-profit sectors in a diverse range of areas including manufacturing, tertiary education, health and overseas development. Prior to establishing his own consultancy business in 2009, Bob was Director of Performance with a large regional public health service in Australia where, among other things, he initiated and then oversaw the implementation and cascading of the Balanced Scorecard over an eight-year period. With 15,000 staff, over 40 hospitals and community centres, this was one of the largest implementations in the health sector internationally.

Bob has facilitated over 150 Balanced Scorecard and strategy workshops in a variety of settings in Australia, Asia and the Pacific and has led a number of independent reviews or evaluations of organizational programs and systems. He is trained in cross-cultural communication, can speak Indonesian and has lived and worked in South East Asia.

John Cleary

John Cleary has delivered solutions as a Consultant, Trainer and Facilitator in Australia, New Zealand, South East Asia and Africa for more than 20 years. John has worked for many public and private higher education providers and has an extensive client base beyond higher education.

John highly values the higher education sector and its role in equipping Australians for employment in the digital age and driving vital export earnings. He also appreciates the value of strategic planning for the inevitable consequences and disruption of the new funding model.

Annette Karstensen

Annette Karstensen is working in Becht’s High Temperature and Fracture Group as a FFS and Structural Integrity specialist. She is a registered licensed engineer in Australia and United Kingdom with more than 25 years’ experience in Structural Integrity.

She has extensive experience with client work covering assessments of engineering components relating to hydro power, fossil power and petrochemical plants. Her main expertise is the application of crack assessment and remaining life assessment procedures such as BS7910 and API 579 to develop allowable crack sizes and/or time for failure for components subjected to cyclic loads or high temperature exposure. Prior to joining Becht, Annette worked 18 years with Quest Integrity in Asia Pacific and 7 years with TWI in the UK predominantly focused on projects relating to Structural Integrity. The last 12 years Annette has conducted more than forty API 579 training courses in Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe.

Andrew Lee

Andrew maintains a keen interest in the evolving practices of leadership training and change management with much of his time dedicated to business development and program design.

Andrew has designed and delivered organisational development programs throughout Australia, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. The universal nature of his approach has enabled him to achieve success in both the public and private sector, in industries as diverse as oil and gas finance, education, health and retail. Curious by nature and always looking for more effective ways to engage, explain and educate, Andrew has been focusing on building curiosity as a catalyst for learning and problem solving. In 2010, he delivered a plenary on “Cultivating Curiosity” at the International Conference on Thinking in Kuala Lumpur.

Among his many career highlights, he has acted as lead facilitator on several year-long leadership programs for the NAB, trained hundreds of leaders for the ABS, and he is currently leading a team facilitating a safety-focussed, culture change program for approximately 2,000 people. In February 2013, he completed training over 150 indigenous Papua New Guineans in cultural self-awareness, to support their assimilation into a western multi-national culture.

Benedict Stanberry

Benedict Stanberry is a British consultant and academic who researches, writes, teaches, coaches and consults around the world on the subjects of healthcare strategy, management and leadership.

Ben began his career as a medical lawyer and became a healthcare management consultant in 2001. Shortly afterwards he was diagnosed with advanced colorectal cancer, from which he was given only a 30 percent chance of survival. Upon his recovery he served as the interim chief executive of a Brussels-based healthcare NGO and as an elected politician in south-west London, where his responsibilities included overview and scrutiny of healthcare services. From 2006 to 2009, as a director of a private healthcare company, Ben helped establish a new model of cancer care for England.

Ben is presently the Principal of IHLM in Oxford and – together with his faculty colleagues – works with healthcare managers and leaders in both the public and private sectors in the UK, Middle East, Asia and Australia.

Joe Caruso

Joe is a former CIO, as well as a former operations and development leader in various ITC providers. Joe’s experience of being on both the buy side representing customers, and the sell side representing suppliers, enables him to have a “two sides of the coin” view of projects and contracts and allows him to reach outcomes that are mutually beneficial to both parties, and ensuring success and sustainable relationships.

Joe has provided expert advice and trained over 1300 professionals on ICT systems strategy, outsourcing, strategic contract management and governance with subjects that include; service level agreements, ICT and Cloud, tendering and contract management across Australia, New Zealand, Middle East and in the Asia Pacific region. Joe holds a Master of eBusiness and has previous taught at Monash University.

Professor Peter Moore

Professor Peter Moore is a senior energy executive and has over 35 years of industry experience in the resources industry and academia. Most of his career has been spent in senior and executive management roles within the oil and gas industry, mainly at Esso Australia Ltd, Exxon Exploration Company (Houston) and Woodside Energy Ltd, although he started his career in the mining industry and with the WA Geological Survey.

At Woodside, Peter held many roles, including leading the company’s geoscience technology function, and ended his executive career as an Executive Vice President responsible for Woodside’s global exploration efforts. In this capacity he managed an annual budget of roughly $500 million, was a member of Woodside’s Executive Committee (ExCom) and its New Opportunities Management Committee, a leader of its Crisis Management Team and Head of the Geoscience function across the company. While at Woodside, he also served on the federal government’s grant committee for geothermal energy.

Peter retired from Woodside in 2013, taking up the role of Chair of the Curtin Graduate School Advisory Board, and gradually joining the boards of various companies. For four years from 2014 until 2018, he was a Non-executive Director of Central Petroleum Ltd, Chair of Earth Sciences WA (ESWA Inc.), and Professor and Executive Director of Corporate Engagement within the Faculty of Business and Law at Curtin University. As a Professor at Curtin, he was involved in the university’s industry engagement strategy and research direction for both the Curtin Business School and the Faculty of Science and Engineering.

Currently, Peter is a Non-executive Director of Beach Energy Ltd, Non-executive Director of Carnarvon Petroleum Ltd, Adjunct Professor at Curtin University, Chair of Curtin’s Faculty of Science and Engineering Advisory Council, Member of the Argentine Chamber of Commerce Advisory Council in Australia, and Non-Executive Advisor to Lavaux Global. He provides executive education throughout Australia and overseas, focussed on resources and energy, and has his own consulting company (Norris Strategic Investments Pty Ltd). Peter has a BSc (Hons 1) from the University of Wollongong, a PhD from the University of Adelaide, an Executive MBA from Melbourne University and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Ian Colley

Ian Colley is Owner and Director of make stuff happen, a consulting practice specialising in change and learning. He commonly deals with ‘tricky’ issues – building common ground between multiple stakeholders, solving difficult problems, creating clarity about uncertain futures, and team development. Ian is an expert facilitator who has honed his craft through the design and facilitation of hundreds of projects in business, government and community settings. He has an infectious enthusiasm for collaborative approaches to business and community development.

His confidence comes from a rich background in senior public policy roles, along with hands-on experience in ambitious practical reforms. Before setting up his consulting practice in 1996 he was a senior Ministerial advisor on education and training, then Program Director for the Dusseldorp Skills Forum. One of Ian’s projects won the Global Best Practice Industry Education Partnership Award, another project won a Premier’s Public Service Award.

Ian teaches training and leadership courses at the University of Technology, Sydney and holds the Certificate IV in Training and Assessment. Clients have included organizations such as ING, IBM, Reserve Bank, Clayton Utz, Legal Aid, American Express, Brambles, Department of Housing, State Rail, Fairfax, Department of Family and Community Services, Sydney Water, Ageing and Disability, Department of Education and Training, Telstra, TAFE, Tourism Australia and Westpac.

He has designed and developed his own courses in facilitation, and delivered these to numerous clients such as NSW Premiers and Cabinet, Sydney Water, Legal Aid NSW, , NSW Industry and Investment, Ogilvy, SA Department of Primary Resources, St Vincent de Paul Society.

Ian has also chaired a number of long-term community and stakeholder liaison groups including for the Barangaroo Development Authority, Taralga Wind Farm, Orica, and Sydney Ports.

Ian is a Certified Professional Facilitator with the International Association of Facilitators, and a leading member of the Sydney Facilitators Network.

Richard Durham

Richard has over 31 years experience in the mining industry and holds a PhD and a degree in Mining from the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London.

He worked for several years for Datamine, initially as a consultant and then as general manager, helping produce advanced modules such as stratigraphical unfolding and mining zone modelling. Richard’s experience also includes working for small technical consultancies and as an individual consultant. In those roles he has been involved in many mining projects, and in commodities including gold, nickel, iron, mineral sands, lead, zinc and coal.

Richard’s field of expertise is in the practical application of technical software and hardware to mining, particularly in mine design, resource and reserve modelling, geostatistics and grade control.

Damian Jurd

Damian is a full-time lecturer at Macquarie University, teaching postgraduate students skills in Information Security Management, Cybercrime & Cyberterrorism, and Information Warfare. He is a professional with over 15 years’ experience specialising in Information Security strategy and implementation (ISO and other Open Systems), Penetration testing, vulnerability analysis and risk analysis, Educating and mentoring in Computer Forensics, Cybercrime and Information Warfare.

His practical and theoretical topics include:

• Cryptography, cryptanalysis, steganography, including certificate and key management;
• Systems and Network management;
• Security and Network Infrastructure
• Cloud, Virtualisation and Software Defined Networking
• Advanced networking (protocols, designs);
• Hardware and network forensics;
• Physical and logical systems
• Operating systems programming and security programming.

Damian continues to develop courses for and taught postgraduate students for the Department of Computing. He also facilitates internal training programs for various public and private sector organisations across when required.

Inderpal Singh

Inderpal is a Chartered Accountant with more than 15 years’ experience in the resources sector. He is Managing Director of Singh Oil & Gas Consultants which is a specialist consultancy providing audit services to the oil and gas industry.

Inderpal has been involved in the audit of some of the largest projects in Australia including the North West Shelf, Browse, Wheatstone and Ichthys. He has also undertaken various audit assignments in Africa and Asia representing international oil and gas companies. This has involved leading teams of international auditors from around the world.

Prior to starting his own company, Inderpal has held the role of Financial Controller at Tribune Resources at a time when the company was transforming from a junior explorer to a highly profitable producer. Inderpal spent a decade in academia holding the position of Associate Professor of Accounting at the University of Western Australia until late 2014.

Prior to UWA, Inderpal worked at Curtin University. The academic roles involved both teaching and research in accounting and auditing. This teaching experience has been invaluable with regard to running various training and short-course programs for the oil and gas sector. Inderpal is currently a member of the Adjunct faculty at the University of New South Wales in the MBA program.

Inderpal is a graduate of the University of Western Australia with a BCom(Hons) and has a PhD from Curtin University. He is an active member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand.

Mal Keeley

Mal has extensive experience in power plant commissioning, training, operations and Permit to Work (PTW) systems over the last 30+ years. This had included the full range of conventional power plant types and configurations, from large PF-fuelled supercritical and subcritical generating units, to multi-fuel circulating fluidised bed and reheat backpressure turbines, as well as gas/diesel-fuelled gas turbines, combined-cycle, cogeneration and geothermal power plants.

Mal has undertaken a wide range of roles including an operations commissioning lead supervisor, PTW manager, training coordinator, commissioning engineer, shift manager, unit operator, PTW officer, HV switching operator and trainer/shift mentor/ workplace assessor. He has also been an operations consultant, where he has developed operating procedures and operator training manuals.

He has faced unique challenges such as becoming the commissioning manager for a hot fractured rock geothermal pilot power project where he also conducted extensive training and assessment for both project engineering and operating personnel. Mal continues to provide consulting support for this and other associated projects.

Mal’s qualifications include a certificate IV in training and assessment TAE40110, diploma of ESI Power Generation UEP50206 (Operations), certificate IV in management and team based leadership, diploma in electrical engineering and an electrical fitter’s trade certificate. Mal is also a high risk work assessor for boiler and turbine plants.

Dr Judy Stubbs

Dr Judy Stubbs has 30 years’ experience in strategic planning and policy development, social and economic impact assessment, planning for affordable housing and social infrastructure, program evaluation, community engagement and the arts.

She is an internationally acknowledged expert in research, consultation, planning and development of innovative affordable housing solutions in diverse housing markets and jurisdictions, and has undertaken successful projects for a wide range of local and state government bodies, private and community sector clients and PPP consortia. Working from a strong academic and evidence base, she specialises in developing and implementing practical, feasible strategies tailored to specific market and regulatory contexts.

Dr Stubbs regularly provides expert evidence on the social and economic impacts of diverse development proposals in Australian jurisdictions, including the NSW Land and Environment Court, NSW Supreme Court and the Victorian Civil and Administrative Appeals Tribunal.

Dr Stubbs holds an inter-disciplinary PhD in housing policy, land economics and planning law from RMIT Melbourne (Faculty of the Constructed Environment). She currently holds, or has held a number of honorary positions, including Chairperson of the Illawarra Legal Centre, Board Member of the Property Council of Australia (NSW), and is a Full Member of the Planning Institute of Australia.

John Storer

John holds graduate and post-graduate qualifications in Civil Engineering and Economics. He is an expert in the application of economic and econometric modelling and high-level statistical analysis.

John has expertise in estimating and economic modelling on major infrastructure projects, affordable housing developments and major urban renewal projects in NSW, Western Australia and Victoria. This includes preparing businesses cases and feasibility analyses; and preparing cost benefit analysis under Treasury Guidelines to justify major projects, including identifying and assessing lifetime private, social and environmental costs and benefits using accepted discount cash flow methodologies.

As a Partner at JSA, John specialises in social and economic impact assessment, economic modelling and the development of economic frameworks for local and State Governments, most recently in relation to major urban renewal areas and greenfield developments where there is significant land value uplift arising from up/rezoning, and land and infrastructure improvements. His economic frameworks, and practical application of these in calculating land value uplift and determining reasonable apportionment formed the basis of policies adopted by leading local government authorities in this important policy area.

Prior to joining JSA, John worked as Professional Engineer and Project Manager on high profile Public Private Partnerships including the Western Sydney Orbital (M7), Eastern Sydney Distributor, Sydney Harbour Tunnel, Illawarra Waste Water Strategy, Illawarra Water Filtration Plant and South Coast Rail Electrification.

Narayan van de Graaff

Narayan van de Graaff is a highlyskilled management consultant, with over 30 years’ experience in human resources and management consulting. During that time, he has designed and delivered courses in preventing bullying and harassment for various organisations in the private, public, educational and non-for-profit sectors.

In various workshops that Narayan delivers, such as Dealing with Difficult People, Crucial Conversations, and Getting Win-Win Outcomes, he discusses ways to effectively deal with bullying behaviours.

Narayan recently delivered a presentation to around 150 managers and lawyers in Legal Aid. The topic was ‘Developing a Culture of Respect’, and he highlighted the prevalence of bullying and harassment in the workforce and its consequences, as well as options and preventative measures for minimising its occurrence.

In addition, Narayan regularly delivers training to councillors and mayors, in which he highlights the need to effectively address any bullying and harassment that occurs amongst councillors and within councils. He emphasises the need for councillors to examine their own behaviours, and gauge whether they partake in bullying or harassment behaviours with each other, staff or the community.

Lachlan McKerrow

Lachlan McKerrow received his BE(Elec) from the University of Newcastle, Australia in 1993. Following graduation he worked in heavy industry where he gained experience in the design, installation and commissioning of power and control systems associated with large bulk material handling plants.

Lachlan joined Ausgrid (formerly Energy Australia) in 1999 and gained experience in all aspects of earthing systems, both within Ausgrid and through external consulting work. His primary focus was the Major Substation Earthing review program which assessed all of the major substations in the Ausgrid franchise in a 15 year period. Externally he worked on projects ranging from mining, aluminium smelters and the instrumentation earthing for the replacement reactor at ANSTO in Sydney.

Lachlan is now a senior engineer with Safearth and has significant experience presenting the Safearth earthing design training courses. His primary area of interest is lightning and the design of lightning protection systems for substations. Outside of engineering he has interests in beer brewing and spending time with his family.

Peter Ormond

Peter is a professional engineer (mechanical) gaining his qualification from South East London College, England in the 1974. He has spent the whole of his career within Maintenance and Asset Management.

In his forty plus years as a professional engineer, Peter has held middle and senior management positions in capital intensive industries encompassing maintenance, logistic support and project management. In the mid-80’s Peter moved from line management roles to become a consultant, assisting many organizations improve and optimize their activities in these specialized areas of operation.

Peter joined BHP Engineering in the early ‘90’s as Manager of the section responsible for the original development and implementation of RCM-Turbo and SOS software tools. (RCM-Turbo is an expert system, allowing the zero-based generation of new, RCM based maintenance plans. SOS is a sister product designed to optimize maintenance spares requirements.) While Richard Blayden was the originator of the concepts of the systems, it was Peter who developed these systems and brought them into being in a commercial form and introduced them to the Worldwide marketplace. Both these software systems are now marketed and supported by Strategic Corporate Assessment Systems.

Peter would have been among the first adopters of the concepts of Reliability Engineering back in the early ‘90’s. Since then he has shared his extensive experience as a Reliability Engineer in many industries include steel-making, mining, smelting, brewing, petro-chemical, pharmaceutical, railways, power generation and distribution industries, among others.

Peter has worked extensively in England, Central and East Africa, American and Australia holding senior engineering positions in each country. In addition to the above countries, he has provided consulting to organizations in New Zealand, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, France, Denmark, Holland and UAE.

Ambrose Rajadurai

Ambrose has had more than 40 years of cross disciplinary experience in the shipping industry based in Europe, Asia and Australia and has a good understanding of how theoretical aspects of chartering practice interact with operational outcomes, regulatory constraints, environmental considerations and quality vetting requirements on charterparty terms.

Ambrose has played an active part in industry associations. He was seconded by Shell to the initial task force responsible for developing the Oil Companies International Marine Forum, Ship Inspection Report Exchange (SIRE Scheme) and played an active part in SIRE throughout his tenure with Shell and BHP. He has also been actively involved in Intertanko (Association of Independent Tanker Owners based in Oslo & London) and Intercargo (Association of Independent Dry Bulk Carrier Owners based in London).

Ambrose regularly updates his knowledge and keeps informed of changes relevant to the industry. His qualifications include seagoing professional qualifications up to Master Mariner Class 1 awarded in 1980, an MBA, LLB (Hons), LLM (Maritime Law) and graduate diploma in Notarial Practice.

Lindsay Dewberry

Lindsay Dewberry is the Principal of Panache Training & Consulting Pty Ltd. He is involved in developing and delivering programs across workplaces and academic environments.

Lindsay worked for more than 20 years in the financial services industry, where he held a variety of senior accounting and management roles while also completing a post graduate qualification in accounting. He is a long standing CPA and has developed and delivered courses for CPA Australia.

Lindsay commenced his consulting business in 2000 with significant expertise in the areas of performance measurement and external accounting.

His client base and experiences span large and small services industries, federal, state and local governments, higher education, not for profit and manufacturing sectors. He is also a board member of several Not for profit corporations, including an accredited theological college with the Australian University of Divinity.

John Giles

John is Principal of his own company, Appleseed Engineering that provides design training related to the infrastructure industry, and training and facilitation services related to Safety in Design.

With over 45 years’ industry experience, 38 with UGL Infrastructure / Kilpatrick Green, John is a highly experienced electrical engineer with a detailed understanding of engineering principles for many industries. He has a broad understanding of civil, structural and mechanical engineering principles and practices.

Beginning as an instrument design engineer, John then held various Chief Engineer positions within UGL Infrastructure for over 30 years. In these roles, John led and maintained the high standard of engineering service for all UGL Infrastructure’s projects.

John’s wide experience covers many industries including hydro-electric, diesel generation, gas turbine power generation, HV power transmission systems, HV power distribution, water and wastewater treatment, water distribution, control and instrumentation, railway power distribution, microwave and communications networks, building services and process automation. He has been responsible for the design of several projects that won Engineering Excellence Awards.

John led the development of ‘Safety in Design’ approaches within UGL Infrastructure, introducing tools such as the CHAIR process and HAZOP/CHAZOP reviews. To date, he has conducted over one hundred Safety In Design workshops for electricity and water infrastructure projects. He has fostered the adoption of Safety in Design techniques by many major organisations.

John is dedicated to the development and continued improvement of the engineering profession. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia, is a past member of CIGRE Australian Panel AP B2 and a current Member of Standards Australia Committees EL43 (AS2067) and EL52 (AS7000 and HB331).

He holds an Electrical Engineering Degree, a Physics Degree and a Master of Engineering Science from the University of New South Wales. He was nominated for Professional Engineer of the Year (2012) by UGL and was one of three finalists in the 2015 SafeWork NSW Awards for Best Individual Contribution to Workplace Health and Safety (non WHS representative).

Glyn Jones

Glyn joined the Country Roads Board of Victoria in 1959 as a newly qualified engineer at Warrnambool. For the next 30 years Glyn wore many hats in Victoria working for Vic Roads, including Regional Bridge Engineer. This involved bridge inspection, managing the maintenance and construction works, developing proposals for new structures, assisting municipalities with their structural problems and managing a precast concrete yard.

Glyn was one of the first to be called in any bridging emergency and this was highlighted in the Ash Wednesday fires of 1983 when his area in South West Victoria lost about 10 major structures. In 1989 Glyn was seconded to an Australian Aid project in Indonesia for 3½ years. There, he wrote the manuals for both bridge inspection and bridge maintenance. Once these were written, Glyn travelled into the provinces teaching and implementing the manual material.

Glyn worked for 8 years as the Regional Bridge Engineer with the RTA in Western NSW. This was the home of many old large timber truss and girder structures. Many of the old traditional crafts were retained thereby employees who were highly skilled. A video was made for posterity on these skills and won a prestigious award at the National Heritage Day in Sydney in 2002.

In 2014 Glyn had an active part to play in the auditing for Queensland Rail in their far west areas in regards to their inspection, maintenance and manpower needs.

In 2015, Glyn assisted the WA Main Roads to assess their Emergency Bridging capabilities. He guided them through their refurbishing their Bailey Bridge components, designed the storage facilities for the Bailey and conducted training for the Bridge Crews.

For the last 16 years, Glyn has run his own consulting company and has specialised in bridge inspection, surveillance, determining maintenance treatments with estimates and mentoring young engineers. In this period Glyn has written a few manuals for Vic-Roads and the RTA.

Eric Maynard

Eric joined Jenike & Johanson in 1996 and is now a Vice President and Director of Education. He has published over 50 articles on the storage, flow, and pneumatic transport of bulk solids. He is the principal instructor for the “Flow of solids in bins, hoppers, chutes, and feeders” and “Pneumatic conveying of bulk solids” courses.

Eric has presented bulk material and pneumatic conveying technology at over 300 training events world-wide. He has designed more than 750 bulk material handling and conveying systems for various powders and bulk solids, with a special focus on the cement, power, and mining industries. Eric is responsible for internal training of engineers at Jenike & Johanson. Eric has particular interest in crushing technologies for minerals, as well as in the safety aspects of dust explosions and powder electrostatics. He has received certified training on dust hazards analysis (DHA; per NFPA 652 chapter 7 requirements) and can perform inspections on the unique hazards with combustible dusts such as foods, plastics, metal powders, and agricultural materials/wood. He is a member of ASME, AIChE, and the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). Eric received his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Villanova University and a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Corin Holmes

Corin is the Operations Manager for Jenike & Johanson Pty Ltd in Perth, Australia, and is passionate about applying the science of bulk solids handling to help people and organisations succeed, especially those in the resources sector. He received his Master’s degree from The University of Greenwich and is a member of AusIMM.

The flow behaviour of bulk solids is deceptively complex and often treated with contempt during the design stage hence there are plenty of “opportunities for improvement”, in almost every industry. As a bulk solids handling engineer with 15 years’ experience, he has designed many bulk material handling and systems with a special focus in the mining industry. As such, he gets plenty of opportunity to indulge his passion, which he enjoys sharing with others! This deep practical experience combined with his accomplished and entertaining presentation style ensures that you won’t be disappointed!

Jacqueline Klauer

Jacqueline Klauer is in international demand as a leadership expert and people development strategist. She is an outstanding, polished facilitator who is a long-standing Senior Associate with Informa. Having the experience of working in over 60 countries across the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the South Pacific, Jacqueline has the enviable ability to provide focus to the most complicated of subjects and delivers training that is innovative, fun, and highly customised to organisations, business units and individuals.

With a background in both psychology and education, Jacqueline brings a sensitivity to the seminar environment rarely experienced by delegates, and her workshops are often described as the “best ever attended”. She has an extensive background as an international corporate executive, enabling her to deeply understand, from a first-hand perspective, the challenges experienced by those individuals seeking to advance their skills and knowledge in global business.

Now, the Managing Director of her own consulting practice, Jacqueline has worked with clients in federal, state and local government, education, gas and oil, fast-moving consumer goods, banking, telecoms, tourism, healthcare and more. She divides her professional time between roles as a management consultant, speaker, facilitator, trainer, courseware developer and coach.

An award-winning author, Ms. Klauer also delivers courses endorsed by Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) in the UK, Chartered Management Institute (UK), Australian Institute of Management, and The George Washington University, Washington DC. In addition to tertiary qualifications she is accredited in the facilitation of proprietary human capability assessments including the testing of Emotional Intelligence (EI). Described by her clients as “professional, energetic, open, inspiring, engaging and empowering”, Jacqueline makes learning fun and, more importantly, helps delegates get “real-world” results.

Sally Arnold

Sally is an award winning international Author and Speaker who specialises in coaching individuals, executives and organisations who are stuck. Sally inspires them to move from “Stuckness” into Standout careers and personal life.

Sally began her Impressive global professional life as a Flautist, in the original show of Jesus Christ Superstar, to the Sydney Opera House with Dame Joan Sutherland, before hearing problems stopped a promising career. She was headhunted by a Melbourne department store, Buckley and Nunn, to reinvigorate their home-wares department after having launched and run her own successful cookware shop.

Combining this business experience with her passion for the performing arts, she then sought and won the coveted role of Head of Business Development for The Australian Ballet. Here she became aware of the intersection between business and creative thinking to help unlock the mind and bring forward creative solutions to business challenges. CEOs of Telstra, UBS and more were sponsors of the ballet and kept saying to Sally that” when they were immersed in the creative ballet environment they felt less stressed and open to new solutions to challenges”.

Her career highlight at The Australian Ballet was heading the Princess Diana Australian Ballet Royal Gala in London 1992. After leaving the ballet and studying psychotherapy in Australia and the USA, Sally set up her business Creating Encores. She specialises in helping businesses and individuals use creative inspired high-performance techniques to produce personal and business problem-solving solutions and fast results.

Sally’s book Creating Encores was launched in NYC September 2014, she won KPI author award later that year. She followed these accolades by guest speaking at The Australian Consulate July 2015 on “Leveraging careers in NYC”. She returned to NYC to run workshops on “Creating more Encores” in your business and career for 2016”. Sally has just completed the Harvard Business School Innovation and Disruption program November 2017.

Sally has won awards from Business 3000 to Anthill 5 over 50 for her creative inspired results based coaching methodology. Creating Encores has a proven methodology. Sally has a wealth of experience in guiding executives, individuals and teams out of career or businesses that are Stuck into new creative inspired paths. People come away from her sessions feeling Inspired, Audacious and Reinvigorated.

Leigh-Cowan

With over 30 years of working experience, Leigh Cowan, B. Commerce – Marketing (UNSW); Grad. Dip Strategic Planning (London City University), is the Managing Director of Launch Engineering Pty Ltd, brings a vast range of experience and lateral thinking to benefit his clients. Originator of “The Law of Diminishing Brand Loyalty”, Leigh is a freethinker in commercial marketing management and a highly sought after expert. He presents his theories and conducts marketing training workshops both across Australia and internationally.

Leigh has had Marketing papers published, taught Fundamentals of Marketing to undergraduates at the University of NSW, Marketing Management at the UTS Graduate School of Business in Sydney and subjects as diverse as Marketing Communications, Consumer Behaviour and Strategic Marketing Planning and Strategy.

As a consultant over the past 20 years, he has helped companies grow sales by as much as 50% in one year, successfully launch products that may have never found success on their own and saved business leaders from disastrous choices in corporate strategy. Over the decades, Leigh has had profound marketing management and product launch success in Finance, FMCG, IT industry, Government and Professional Services. During a stint in the UK, he helped an FMCG company increase its market share 6-fold in under 18 months, knocking the mighty Mars Corporation on its backside. Leigh is currently the Managing Director of Launch Engineering that specialises in new product development and launch, prelaunch and on-going marketing planning and strategy. He owns a proprietary system for pre-launch assessment of product launch that has always successfully predicted the outcome of a product launch services.

List of companies that have benefited from Cowan’s expertise:
• ING
• Morgan & Banks
• Telstra
• Westpac
• Maybank
• Allied Bank
• CIMB Bank
• DBS Bank
• Bank of Ceylo
• Nestle
• Unilever
• Nutella
• Abbot
• AM Bank
• Bank Islam Brunei Darussalam
• Johnson&Johnson
• Marion Merrell Dow
• United Overseas Bank Malaysia
• NDB Bank
• Union Bank of Philippines
• Muang Thai Insurance
• AVCO Financial Services
• Proctor & Gamble
• Colgate
• VietinBank
• Sara Lee

Alex Ow

Alex Ow is known for being a Creative Strategist. He is well recognised for his innovative approach and creative ideas in helping individuals, teams and organisations to unleash their creative attribute. Using the world re-known LEGO Serious Play methodology and Foursight Creative Thinking System, Alex as a certified instructor has the unique ability to engage learners and inspire them into creating their own relevant learning journey which translates into a high-performance team culture. He started as the first independent certified de Bono consultant in Malaysia. Now, he is in the mist of building up the de Bono network in Australia/NZ.

Given his vast experience over decades in the field, he had undertaken over 1000 training sessions, trained more than 30,000 people and carried out various leadership and capability consulting assignments throughout Asia and Australia/NZ. With over 20 years of extensive training and consulting experience, he has worked with large organisations, public listed companies, SMEs, universities and government departments & agencies. His experience in facilitating cross-culture audience in various countries has given him the niche in international business skill.

Alex has worked as an education designer and has experience in designing and implementing Leadership Capability Framework using education technology and pedagogy. He is skilled in capability analysis, custom-designed programs and has facilitated in a change of creative & innovative work culture. Being a seasoned trainer and consultant he takes a pragmatic approach in capability development projects. Coupled with his accreditation as a ROI professional, he has assisted many organisations in measuring training outcomes, impact and evaluating Return of Investment (ROI) program.

He holds a PhD in Continuing Education and his thesis is on the “Influence of personal preferred creative problem-solving style and organisational creativity factors on types of lateral thinking”. His research interest is in Breakthrough, Creativity and Disruptive Innovation. In addition, he is a graduate in Master in Business Administration (MBA) degree & also an Associate member of the Institute of Chartered Secretary & Administrator (ACIS), UK. Alex is also an experienced VET trainer & assessor and has a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, Frontline Leadership and Human Resources. His academic background has helped him in data analysis, interpretation and providing solutions in business process improvements. He ingeniously use “Game storming“ strategies to energise the team members, putting ideas across persuasively using the visual diagrams.

Also to his credit, he has written several books, had a number ofradio and television appearances and numerous articles published in various newspapers and periodicals that are related to creative thinking and innovation.

Adam P. Henry

Adam P. Henry is Principal Director at HENRY Strategic, an Adjunct Lecturer at the UNSW Canberra Cyber and Australian co-lead for the Cybersecurity Workforce Alliance (CWA). He is a cybersecurity education, skills and workforce development expert and researcher. In April 2018, Adam spoke at the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) Conference on Mastering the Cyber Security Skills Crisis: Creating a Cyber Workforce based on his soon to be released research paper Mastering the Cyber Security Crisis: Responding to Industries Cyber Requirements – Developing a Cyber Workforce.

In May 2018, he will present at an international conference on cybersecurity workforce development in Canada at the CyberSmart Summit to talk about Australia’s Cybersecurity Workforce Development Agenda. Previously Adam has presented at the Australian Centre for Cyber Security (ACCS) International Conference: Realigning Cybersecurity Education – Mastering the Cybersecurity Skills Crisis: Realigning Educational Outcomes to Industry Requirements in 2017.

He wrote a piece in the Australian Financial Review, Growing a cyber-security workforce at home published on the 6thNovember 2017.

He has extensive experience in digital leadership and transformation, developing, leading and executing technology business solutions and strategies. He has collaborated with stakeholders to prudently leverage technology to transform and simplify business processes while delivering significant policy initiatives and implementation.

Nikki O’Keeffe

Nikki O’Keeffe is an ATD Facilitator. She is a dedicated training specialist who delivers a positive, memorable, and meaningful service that repeatedly meets or exceeds the expectations of the client. She has experience creating strategies and visions to ensure training requirements and deliveries are in line with quality, probability, and client need.

Nikki has worked in varied industries, including education, healthcare, and pharmaceuticals. In her role as the global senior training and development specialist at PAREXEL International, her focus was on managing and developing courses for new and existing staff on technical systems, process changes, new products, and soft skills.

Her educational background includes a BA in psychology from Butler University and a master’s degree in exercise science, health, and wellness from Northeastern Illinois University. Her specific areas of interest include virtual training, facilitation techniques, and mentoring new trainers.

Nikki is skilled at providing face-to-face and online learning programs for global participants of varying experience levels. In addition to delivering training, she has performed training needs analyses to identify gaps and recommend training solutions, worked with SMEs as a consultant to develop courses and curriculums, and evaluated programs for effectiveness.

As a certified ATD Master Trainer she understands the value of solid training plans and strong facilitation. Nikki looks forward to sharing her experiences and expanding her knowledge base by learning from her participants in the upcoming ATD courses that she leads.

Facilitates the Following:
Designing Learning Certificate, Articulate Storyline Certificate, Training Certificate, E-Learning Instructional Design Certificate, Introduction to Training Certificate, Introduction to Instructional Design, Microlearning.

Michele Moreau

Michele is a registered nurse and midwife. She has specialised in the field of Clinical governance for over 10 years. Michele currently works as clinical governance advisor for PHI and assists organisations involved in coronial, serious incident and complaint investigations.

Her experience includes leading the risk management service for tertiary hospitals, the oversight of medico-legal cases, complaints systems, root cause analyses, open disclosure, credentialing processes, staff performance issues and clinical governance committees.

Michele’s has authored Clinical Governance Frameworks for services covering hospital, aged, community, disability, mental health and foster care. She has practical experience in the implementation of clinical governance and the training of board members, committee members, clinical and support staff.

Michele’s interest lies in improving the effectiveness of clinical governance to achieve meaningful outcomes for patients, families and staff. She has experienced first-hand the impact on staff, when they were unaware of how to manage patient risk, the consequences of this failure in duty of care on their mental health and careers. Michele has also been present to feel and witness the impact on families, when clinical governance fails and lives are lost.

Michele teaches to assist organisations to build systems which enable staff to work in the safest way possible, to learn from errors and successes.

Preventing Harm Initiative (PHI) aim is to share skills, knowledge and systems with staff to actively protect themselves and patients from error.

Margaret Andrè

In 2017 Margaret started her own legal practice after having worked in a boutique law firm that specialised in construction law matters. She has a general interest and sound knowledge of the building and construction sector and is experienced in dispute resolution processes including mediation, adjudication, arbitration and litigation.

Margaret has a strong customer focus and always strives to ensure she is able to add value to her client’s business by utilising her wide network base to assist in meeting their needs. With an approachable manner and her flexibility to work with her clients in a timely and cost-effective manner, many of Margaret’s clients are referrals from her existing or former clients.

Prior to studying law, Margaret spent over 20 years lecturing adults at TAFE in either a full time or part time role and was regularly required to deliver training in commercial courses at TAFE in the areas of occupational safety and health, project management and business management. As a committed educator, Margaret adopts adult learning principles and endeavors to create an enthusiastic, collaborative and engaging learning environment for all course participants.

Margaret has delivered and written training and assessment material in the areas of contract law, due diligence, security of payments legislation and Australian consumer law for engineers, quantity surveyors, contract administrators and contract managers. Often the training and assessment material is developed after undertaking a training needs analysis to ensure the course content is appropriate and contextualized for the course participants.

As an advocate of lifelong learning, in addition to completing a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Education in Adult Education, Margaret also successfully completed a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment and a Certificate IV in Occupational Health and Safety.

Eddy Abou Chakra

Managing Partner, Vanguards Consulting

Eddy is the Founder and Managing Partner at VANGUARDS Consulting.

He has over 20 years of strategy and business transformation experience acquired through various engagements in Middle East, and Europe. His key focus is on strategy formulation, strategy execution, performance management, organization transformation, business process improvement, information systems, marketing, and business development. Eddy has advised governments, financial institutions, telecom operators, construction and real estate companies. He has led major strategy and transformation engagements with key focus on value proposition enhancement, governance, technology, product development, service delivery, business models, due diligence, and HR. Eddy has extensive experience in leading focused strategy engagements as well as large transformation projects.

Eddy held various positions in international audit and consulting firms and headed the IS Audit and consulting function at two of the top 10 international audit and consulting firms.

Eddy is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA – ISACA), certified Balanced Scorecard Master Professional (BSMP – George Washington University), and Certified E-business Consultant (CEC – ICECC).

Felipe Rego

Felipe Rego, Data Science & Analytics Partner

Felipe is a leading advanced analytics and data science partner, working with teams in a range of different organisations and helping them build, manage and enhance their data science and visualisation solutions. Strategically aligned, commercially oriented and above all, customer centred, Felipe’s unique methodologies help organisations stay competitive and create a solid pathway for future growth.

Felipe has a unique combination of in-depth technical expertise (including developing code and programming in analytical tools) and a high level of business experience with over a decade working in analytics teams, marketing, research and business strategy. This allows him to identify and understand the issues that impact his clients’ businesses and translate them into the complex language of analytics and data science to find the best solutions. Because of this, Felipe is highly in demand with marketing, sales, finance, technology and strategy teams. He excels at delivering robust analytical solutions that are easy to use, understand and implement. Felipe’s unique methodology takes a holistic approach to using data and science to improve whole organisational performance and reduce costs.

Felipe is also an analytics instructor with experience disseminating practical, actionable advanced analytics and data visualisation techniques in both classrooms and online settings. The organisations he works with find that partnering with Felipe results in a more engaged and capable workforce. It’s not just the organisation as a whole that benefits – individuals feel more prepared to step up to their next challenge and confidently make use of data and analytics in their day-to-day work.

When Felipe is not partnering with clients or helping students, he’s a research candidate in Learning Analytics at The University of Sydney. As part of his research, Felipe makes sense of students’ digital traces and looks at the role learning analytics dashboards play in influencing learning outcomes. His research has also been focused on exploring patterns of students’ engagement and performance profiles in learning environments.

Alongside all this, Felipe is also a blogger, writing regularly on a wide range of topics including predictive analytics, statistical learning and data visualisation. Recognised internationally for his thought leadership, Felipe received over 82,000 visitors to his blog from over 180 countries last year and some of his articles have been ranked #1 in Google search. Felipe is widely referenced by many sources and leading educational institutions including StackOverflow, Udacity, Western Michigan University, UC Santa Barbara and Edinburgh Napier University among others.

Dr Howard Parkinson

Howard is a chartered engineer with over 20 years of experience in the international railway industry, more recently as an independent consultant, researcher and trainer. He has experience in signaling, rolling stock, infrastructure and railway systems projects at a senior level and has just finished an assignment in Australia working on systems integration for automatic train protection.

His project positions at senior levels have included systems assurance manager, senior project manager, lead safety assessor, and head of systems engineering and safety. He has had experience in metro, tram and heavy rail (conventional and high speed) in UK, Australia and other countries.

Howard has expertise in systems engineering, compliance, safety /notified body assessment, safety and reliability engineering, the latest safety standards, European interoperability and UK legislation.

His current research interests include safety engineering in the railway, accident investigation and systems engineering. Howard has been deployed internationally in countries including: Australia, Korea, Germany, The Netherlands, UK, Croatia, Saudi Arabia, Canada and China. In addition to his consulting and research work, Howard designs, develops and delivers training to industry in the areas of engineering, safety and risk management.

Howard holds a doctorate from the department of mechanical and aeronautical engineering at the University of Manchester and a postgraduate certificate in education. He is a registered chartered engineer in the United Kingdom, a fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (FIMechE), and a member of the Institution of Railway Signal Engineers (MIRSE).

Clive Osman

Clive is a rail systems engineer and consultant with 36 years of systems development and deployment experience including 27 years in UK and international metro, mainline and high speed rail projects. Experience covers command and control system development, signalling control system delivery, re-signalling scheme development and delivery, metro automation, engineering process development, engineering controls and engineering assurance management.

Clive has a practical and theoretical understanding of railway system integration and have applied UK and international standards to the management of railway system integration activities across the whole lifecycle from concept development through to handover to operations. He has worked closely with other railway specialisms including business and transport analysts and operational and maintenance experts to ensure engineering solutions address the problem.

He is a capable system design manager and rail system integrator with a record of successfully applying systems engineering principles to design management, rail system integration and interfaces on major projects. Good working knowledge of all systems engineering disciplines and has held system architecture, interfaces, configuration management, requirements management and safety engineering posts.

Edward M Crompton

Edward has over 30 years of experience covering all levels within the project life cycle, applied to a variety of software projects, including ERP, SAP, Avionics systems, ATC systems, financial, heavy engineering, Petro-chemicals.
Having worked at all levels, Edward is able to relate to management, application engineers, developers, and business end users. He possesses a good knowledge of requirements capture, systems engineering and assurance, standards, QA procedures, FAT and SAT and able to adopt local working practices, understands business implications of system implementations.

An attention to detail, supported by the appropriate application of quality procedures have been a dominating feature of Edward’s approach taken to project work and provision of consultancy services.

Dr Michael Court

Dr Court recently retired as Managing Director of Balanced Scorecard Australia after 15 years senior consulting experience. His principal interests are in the strategic management of companies and organisations and in the development and implementation of performance measures and scorecard systems. He is a Senior Associate of the USA Balanced Scorecard Institute and a certified Balanced Scorecard Master Professional.

Dr Court’s recent consulting activities include:

• The delivery of public balanced scorecard training programs in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Singapore and Ho Chi Minh City,

• The recent development of a large scale BSC program for the Malaysian State of Sarawak, previous BSC developments for the Mongolian Government, the Bhutan Sovereign Wealth Fund, and the Indonesian Prudential Authority, and

• Current and recent consultancies with STULZ Australia Ltd, the Maldives Transport and Construction Corporation, Alphacrucis College, TSI Pharmaceuticals, SEQ Water, Golding Contractors Ltd, the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Authority, AMCAP Ltd, This Solution, Siemens Australia Ltd, AnglicareSA , the PNG Air Services Authority, PNG Airports Ltd, Lifestyle Australia , Highland Coffee Group (Vietnam), Daiichi Life Insurance (Vietnam) and the South East Insurances Group (Thailand).

Earlier career
Michael’s early career was in economics and accounting with one of KPMG’s Australian predecessors and then the Reserve Bank of Australia. He subsequently completed an MBA at the University of Washington and the Advanced Management Program at the Australian Staff College.

He occupied senior executive positions in financial management in both the public and private sectors, culminating as Finance Director and then Secretary of the SA Health Commission. After completing a Ph.D in strategic management, including research periods at the University of Washington and the London School of Economics, he was the inaugural CEO of a new statutory authority for the SA Government.

Michael retired from the public service in 1994 and established his own management consultancy practice specialising in the development and implementation of strategic management and scorecard systems. This became Balanced Scorecard Australia in 2009.

Penny Galbraith

Dr Penny Galbraith FAIB, FRICS is a project manager, builder and access consultant with a career-long interest in accessibility and universal design. Consultancy roles have covered a range of clients and built environment forms. Recently, Penny assisted the Australian Human Rights Commission build an evidence base in respect of housing policy and standards as well as delivering accessibility and universal design training in Sri Lanka. Penny is an Accredited ACAA Access Consultant, Director of the Centre for Universal Design Australia and Subject Matter Expert on disability for the Australian Building Codes Board. Strategy, research and futures thinking underpin Penny’s work.

Dr. Stefano Persiani

Dr. Persiani is currently Director of Translational Sciences and Pharmacokinetics at Rottapharm Biotech, Italy. After years working in academia, Dr. Persiani moved to the pharmaceutical industry and CRO sector holding different positions in R&D at Farmitalia Carlo Erba, Pharmacia, Upjon, and Zambon Group.

His experience within pharmaceutical companies and CROs ranges from drug discovery and lead optimization to early preclinical and full clinical development in different therapeutic areas including oncology, respiratory, CNS, anti-infective, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, and rheumatology.

James Hay

James has over 25 years’ experience as a corporate treasury executive, financial analyst and executive trainer. James has held roles in risk management, corporate finance and capital budgeting with some of Australia’s largest resource companies.

More recently, he has established a corporate advisory and training business providing investment appraisal and financial educational services to a range of corporate and institutional clients. In addition to his consulting business, James is currently a Visiting Fellow at Macquarie University where he teaches Resources Industry Investment Analysis in the Master of Applied Finance program.

Since 1998, James has been the managing director of J.L. Hay & Co. Pty Ltd. He has advised on project investment decisions, business planning, and asset acquisitions and divestments. His clients include Japan Australia LNG (MIMI), Woodside, Placer Dome, ExxonMobil, and Minara Resources. From 1987 to 1998, James worked for WMC Resources Ltd initially in the Corporate Treasury in Melbourne and then in the Nickel, Gold and Petroleum divisions in Perth as a Senior Financial Analyst.

Since establishing his consultancy in 1998, James has developed and presented numerous workshops to corporate and institutional clients in financial management and analysis. James holds a BSc from Monash University in applied mathematics and earth science, an MBA in finance and accounting from Cornell University, and a BLitt(Hons) and PhD from The University of Melbourne in political science.

Steve Loader

Steve has over 20 years of experience in the aviation industry with significant knowledge of the many and varied parts that make up an airline. He was an instructor for airline staff around the world and has experienced many major changes in the way airlines operate.

He has held executive roles in the airline and associated travel industries and worked as a consultant with overseas airlines on various projects.

Steve has developed and delivered courses in the aviation industry covering many areas including airline reservations, sales, marketing, cabin crew, yield management, freight and airports. With a passion for customer service excellence in a customer-focussed industry, he has vast experience in managing government, industry, corporate and individual customers.

Steve provides an understanding of consumer behavioural and market trends with success implementing sales, marketing and brand strategies to capitalise on future trends, market opportunities and build brand growth. He has a proven capacity to influence and manage change across all levels, with demonstrated success improving operational processes and implementing strategies for management and workforce planning. Steve has led diverse multicultural teams with demonstrated success in adapting to global environments.

Steve was on an airline’s ‘Go Team’ for any emergencies worldwide and has completed various sessions involving mock airline disaster situations.

Steve holds a Bachelor Business in Business Management and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors ensuring a thorough knowledge of corporate governance.

Thomas Siepmann

Thomas Siepmann is a registered patent attorney with more than a decade of legal experience in intellectual property counseling and extensive graduate work including a doctorate in biochemistry, and postdoctoral work in organic synthetic chemistry.

He has scientific experience in the fields of biochemistry, molecular biology, cell biology, genetics, organic chemistry, protein chemistry, nucleic acid chemistry, and diagnostics/medical devices. Thomas represents innovators ranging in size from small, private, start-up companies to large, public, multi-national companies.

Dr Eric Beyssac

Eric Beyssac received a Master’s in Pharmacy and a Ph.D. degree in Pharmaceutical Technology, from the Faculty of Pharmacy, Clermont-Ferrand, where he is currently a Professor. He was an invited Professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy of Université Lavalin Québec from 2000 to 2002 and is still Associate Professor at this university. He is currently co-director of the research group CIDAM “Conception, Ingénierie et Développement de l’Alimentet du Medicament” (Conception, Engineering and Development of Food and Drugs).

Professor AJ Brown

A J Brown is Professor of Public Policy & Law in the Centre for Governance & Public Policy, Griffith University, where he is program director, integrity and anti-corruption. A board member of Transparency International and Transparency International Australia, he was formerly a senior investigation officer for the Commonwealth Ombudsman, and former Associate to Justice G E Tony Fitzgerald AC, Queensland Court of Appeal, as well as a ministerial policy advisor and consultant to several governments and parliaments. He now directs Griffith University’s Asia-Pacific Integrity School.

A world-recognised expert in whistleblowing, he was a Member of the Commonwealth Government’s Ministerial Expert Advisory Panel on Whistleblowing (2017-2019) informing the design of Australia’s new legislation. He has led some of the world’s largest and leading whistleblowing research projects, including the recent Australian Research Council Linkage Project ‘Whistling While They Work 2: Improving Managerial Responses to Whistleblowing in Public & Private Sector Organisations’, supported by ASIC, Australian Institute of Company Directors, CPA Australia, Commonwealth and State Ombudsman and many other partner organisations.

AJ was lead editor of the International Handbook on Whistleblowing Research, published by Edward Elgar in 2014; and through Standards Australia, is a member of the International Standards Organisation expert working group developing the first whistleblowing management systems standard for organisations. As well as being an expert in policy and practice, he is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.

David Scott

David Scott is a freelance licensing and business development consultant with proven skills in deal-brokering, marketing, strategic planning, finance, business development and acquisitions.

He is a certified licensing professional with over 30 years’ experience in the healthcare sector, David has spent the past 20 years as a consultant and has successfully concluded both inward and outward licensing agreements covering products, diagnostic and delivery systems on behalf of clients.

David is the author of a number of best-selling licensing guides and also runs licensing training courses for companies and organizations in the healthcare sector. His activities also include board membership of a number of start-up companies and he also provides business planning training to university researchers in the UK.

Sophie Nageotte

Regulatory CMC Expert

Sophie has over 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. She gained her Master’s degree in analytical chemistry from Manchester University and her Chemical Engineer degree from Montpellier School of Chemistry. She went on to work in pharmaceutical development and post-marketing CMC regulatory compliance in companies such as Bayer, Stragen, PregLem and Laboratories Galderma. She gained a strong experience in the worldwide regulatory environment for the manufacture and control of the medicines.

She now runs her own consultancy, delivering consultancy and support in writing IMPDs, CTD Module 3 and QOS, preparing variations and answering questions from health authorities.

Sophie also delivers training courses on European regulations for pharmaceuticals, writing of the Module 3, how to achieve global regulatory compliance, managing transfers of manufacturing sites and preparing variations for the ASEAN region.

Adam Le Good

Adam Le Good has worked in a range of Human Resources positions for over thirty years. In his current role as a Learning and Development Consultant he has developed and conducted a wide variety of management and personal development programs for a broad cross section of clients throughout Australia and New Zealand since 1995.

He uses practical applications of management principles and theory plus a humorous and theatrical style to ensure that participants enjoy their learning experience, gain practical skills and are able to translate these newly acquired skills back into the workplace.

His passion for and knowledge of adult learning principles, group dynamics, learning styles and human behaviour ensures that the training will appeal to a broad range of participants.

As well as a degree in Psychology, Adam has completed a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, an Advanced Train the Trainer and a Creative Training Techniques workshop. In addition, he holds a Diploma of Management.

With a background in theatre and a passion for photography, Adam brings a level of creativity into the training room. Combined with his responsiveness to the group’s needs and ability to draw on his wealth of organisational knowledge, participants are ensured of a meaningful and engaging learning experience.

Adam has also been involved in a number of large organisational change implementations for State Government, Academia and the Aged Care/Disability sector giving him a unique insight into the future of organisations.

Adam is an accredited administrator of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (Step I and II), the Team Management Systems, the Belbin Team Roles and The DISC Advanced Profile. He is also a member of both the Australian Institute of Training and Development and the Institute for Learning Professionals.

Julianne Hull

CEO, WenStar Enterprises

With 30 years’ experience in clinical development Julianne has successfully held global leadership roles in Vendor Management/Outsourcing, Clinical Data Management and Clinical Operations for several large and medium pharmaceutical companies (Pfizer, Wyeth, Marion Merrell Dow and Biogen). In these roles she has been an accomplished manager and motivator of staff based in China, India, Japan, Europe and US. Julianne received a DIA award for service to the pharmaceutical industry. Julianne is also an honorary life member of the ACDM.

Julianne is currently CEO of WenStar Enterprises a company she formed in 2011 to provide training and consultancy to the pharmaceutical industry. WenStar Enterprises won a Southern Enterprise Award for Patient Safety earned for training during the COVID-19 epidemic.

Dr. Duncan Seddon

Dr. Duncan Seddon industrial career started with ICI on Teesside in the UK where he worked on the production of plastics and fibres. He moved to the Billingham Works where he was responsible for the energy management of a large integrated chemical complex. He moved to ICI Australia in 1980 and worked on the conversion of natural gas to methanol and olefins. In 1983, he moved to BHP and worked on gas to liquids (GTL).

Since 1988, Duncan has practiced as an independent consultant offering a broad range of services to companies and government bodies with an interest in refining and petrochemicals processes. He has a particular interest in the production of chemicals and fuels from gas and coal and the technology and economics for producing fuels from renewable sources.

Duncan is the author of over 120 papers, patents, including several papers on the productions cost of hydrogen and its competitive position versus conventional fuels.

He has written two books – “Gas Usage and Value – The Technology and Economics of Natural Gas Use in The Process Industries” (PennWell, 2006) and “Petrochemical Economics – Valuing and Selecting Technology in a Carbon Constrained World” (ICP press, 2010). He is the co-editor (with Bo Zhang) of “Hydroprocessing Catalysts and Processes- The Challenges for Biofuels Production” (World Scientific, 2018).

Duncan is a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute and a Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.

Peter Sierwald

Peter Sierwald is an experienced consulting professional and former director at Deloitte. He is a subject matter expert in risk and business continuity management, with a career spanning over 25 years, focusing solely on these areas.

Peter has comprehensive public and private sector risk and business continuity experience, working with some of the largest global financial organisations, federal and state government departments and agencies. His experience is based on real life practice; Peter started his career in risk and business continuity management in the United Kingdom in 1993, the same year as an IRA bomb devastated the City of London.

He continued his career in Germany from 1996, working first in Berlin and then moving to Frankfurt, where he was closely involved in the establishment of Germany’s first Business Recovery Centre, fully equipped as an emergency office for banking and finance clients. This centre was put to the test in the weeks following the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, as multiple clients activated the facility in preparation for increased activity in European financial markets.

Peter moved to Australia in 2003 and established a risk and business continuity management consulting practice. Since that time, peter has helped a diverse range of clients develop and improve risk and business continuity processes using simple yet thorough methodologies, aligned with industry ‘best practice’ guidelines and international standards.

In Australia Peter has been involved in a number of high-profile emergency situations and has supported clients through the Lindt Café siege, the South Australian power blackout, the Bourke Street Mall incident, NSW / ACT bushfires and COVID-19.

Peter is a Member of the Business Continuity Institute (MBCI) and was a founding member of the BCI Australasian Chapter. Fluent in French and German, Peter has an Honours degree in French, German and Economics, and a Master’s degree in Management.

Dr Graham Edkins

Organisational Psychologist Dr Graham Edkins is considered one of Australia’s leading Safety Management and Human Factors experts and is regularly retained as an independent safety investigator and human factors expert witness for various civil and criminal matters.

As a former Transport Safety Investigator with the ATSB, Manager Human Factors for Qantas Airways, Executive Director of Public Transport Safety Victoria, and Group General Manager for CASA, he brings a wealth of experience and detailed knowledge of contemporary safety regulation, major event investigation and human error management practices.

Dr Edkins has represented both the Victorian and Commonwealth Governments on a number of national forums, including the Standing Committee on Transport (SCOT) Rail Group, Vice Chairman, International Air Transport Association (IATA), Human Factors Working Group, Chair National Rail Safety Regulators Panel and the National Steering Committee for the development of National Rail Model Safety Legislation.

He has successfully designed and delivered customised rail safety investigation and human factors management training programs globally to a variety of public and private sector organisations and cultures.

Beverley Honig BA. LLB. MBA

Chief Executive Officer, Honeylight Enterprises Pty Ltd

Beverley Honig is an internationally qualified lawyer with over 30 years’ experience in Australia, the United Kingdom and Middle East. A winner of The Australian Financial Review and Westpac 100 Women of Influence Awards, she is also listed in the Who’s Who of Business in Australia and the Businesswomen Hall of Fame.

With her pre-eminent expertise in projects and contracts, she is the published author of several bestselling books, including textbook “Project Management: A Managerial Process (McGraw Hill, 15th edition), and “Making Contracts Work” (2010). Besides serving as a judge for the Essential Services Commission Appeals, Beverley is also a Board Director and Chairman of several public and private companies.

Her wealth of experience has won her accolades from clients as well as tenders to design frameworks and training in this field. As a seasoned strategist and corporate trainer, Beverley has designed and delivered to more than 200,000 training participants globally, across Europe, the UK, Asia and the US on topics such as Effective Commercial Contract Management and Transformation in times of uncertainty. She is also a well-known business advisor to corporations and governments globally in fields such as international business sourcing, contract management, project management and negotiation, having advised the top 500 companies globally.

Beverly is the CEO of Honeylight Enterprises P/L, a leading business consultancy specialising in Business Improvement, professional development programs and corporate advisory. In 2017, Honeylight was awarded winner of Westpac Banks top 200 Businesses of Tomorrow. She sits on a number of Public boards and also runs a few innovative start- ups. She is also a senior University lecturer in Entrepreneurship Law. Also, across multiple years, Honeylight was also awarded the prestigious International Trade Awards, bestowed by the Prime Minister, in recognition of its outstanding contribution in the forging of international trade links.

Gina Frampton

Gina is a lawyer, editor and journalist. She graduated in law from the Universities of Cape Town and Sydney, working first in industrial law in South Africa and then in commercial litigation in Sydney – a spectrum of work that extended from a legal centre in a squatter camp to a large corporate law firm.

Carolyn Madden

Carolyn is a skilled human resource professional who has specialised in training and coaching over the last 10 years. She has successfully delivered a diverse range of training programs in private industry and across multiple agencies of NSW Government, Local Government and Federal Government in metropolitan and regional Australia; conducting more than 500 courses covering in excess of 9,000 participants from senior executives down. A natural ‘people’ person, she is a strong communicator with excellent ability to manage a room and keep participants engaged and based on very positive feedback, often invited back to deliver extra workshops. With an interest in employee wellbeing and positive psychology, Carolyn has developed programs around effective communication, conflict resolution along with building workplace resilience and helping employees to engage constructively in self-care and stress management in order to be more centred and calmer at work and home.

She is passionate about helping people reach their potential by performing to their best ability, while also looking after themselves and learning effective strategies to deal better with the increased stress of everyday living. She backs this up by staying up to date with current thinking and research on mental health and developments in neuroscience.

On a personal level, Carolyn has family experience with mental health disorders and understands the difficulty in knowing how to help and support someone experiencing mental health issues, and the impact that this can have on everyday life for all concerned. Carolyn has a professional approach and able to competently represent clients across all levels of business.

Cheryl Lambert

With 25 years of experience across Disability, Aged Care, Health and Mental Health, Cheryl Lambert is a former senior executive in disability with extensive experience as a NDIS consultant.

Cheryl specialises in governance, strategy, and service improvement.

Her experience includes the implementation and management of corporate and clinical governance frameworks under multiple health/human services standards and accreditation processes, including the NDIS Quality and Safeguarding Framework.

As part of the PHI team, Cheryl assists organisations to establish and improve systems for governance, improving outcomes for the most vulnerable people in our community.

Geoffrey Hunter

For the past 18 years Geoff has worked exclusively on LNG projects, including those for ExxonMobil, BHP, Santos and Atlantic LNG, for facilities in Trinidad, Australia and PNG.

During his fulltime working career, Geoff was employed by Atlantic LNG (3 ½ years), Santos (10 years), BHP Petroleum (3 years), Exxon (17 years) and EPC contractors (13+ years).

For the past 6 years he has worked as an independent LNG Consultant, and in that role he has undertaken studies for Australian LNG import, Mozambique LNG export, Western PNG LNG Export and Darwin containerised LNG export projects. For the past 4 years he has donated his time representing Australia on the International Gas Union LNG Committee 2015-2018 and 2018-2021 Triennium Work Programs, contributing to the preparation of the annual World LNG Reports and Study Group reports.

At Santos he established the corporate LNG role (as Chief Advisor LNG Developments). He was Santos’ Joint Venture representative for the liquefaction facilities for the Darwin LNG and PNG LNG Projects. He carried out the initial feasibility and site selection studies that resulted in the Gladstone LNG Project (GLNG) and oversaw the dual Pre-FEED studies for the GLNG Project, involving numerous trips to USA and European based LNG contractors. He was closely involved with the PNG LNG Project during its Feasibility, dual Pre-FEED and dual FEED studies, the latter involving several months in Houston as part of the ExxonMobil PNG LNG bid evaluation team for the LNG plant. In his LNG Advisor role at Santos he also carried out studies for Darwin LNG T2 (Sunrise Project), Bonaparte LNG and many small scale and floating LNG developments. In early 2011 he joined Atlantic LNG in Trinidad, working in their 4 train operating LNG plant as Project Support Services Manager for 3 ½ years.

He has studied the international LNG business in depth and remains current with global LNG related developments (including large and small scale facilities for the export, storage, shipping and import of LNG). He prepared and presented LNG Fundamentals courses to Santos staff in Brisbane, Adelaide and Houston, as well as to ExxonMobil staff and PNG Government personnel in Port Moresby and Brisbane. In Trinidad, these courses were also popular with Atlantic LNG staff and their shareholders. In total he has presented more than forty in-house and external 3 Day, 2 Day and 1 Day LNG Fundamentals courses, in addition to preparing a 5 Day external course (and external LNG training for SPE and University of Queensland).

He has broad international experience from living and working in Trinidad, UK, USA, Iraq and West Germany for approximately 13 years (including more than 5 years in USA with ExxonMobil affiliates).

Charley Rattan

Hydrogen and offshore wind business advisor and trainer.

The course is led by Charley Rattan, international hydrogen expert and respected energy insider and facilitator bringing over 25 years’ real-world renewable experience and a track record of successful major project delivery. Charley is a trusted strategic advisor to global energy companies and an advocate and facilitator for the emerging innovation energy market.

Charley’s is respected as a leading authority in hydrogen and renewables providing consultancy and training at high level across the globe including for key stakeholders, governments, consenting authorities and world organisations such a the United Nations

Shaun Mintyn

20 years experience in international emergency response, skills and safety training. Led the development of international digital standards and associated training products. Led and managed international accreditation and competency services.

James Hamilton

Over 15 years experience delivering skills and training solutions to the global energy industry. Delivered competency frameworks and nationalisation projects for governments, IOCs and NOCs. Led and managed the delivery of the UKCS apprenticeship program on behalf of operators.

Paul Pinkerton

15 years experience in global Project & Business Delivery. Project Lead for Strategic Staffing Plans, Statistical Labour Market Analysis & Resourcing Delivery for Major Capital Projects up to £50bn, inc. gap analysis and training, nationalisation planning.

Frederik F.F. Haentjens

Frederik Haentjens is a Human Capital & Organisational Transformation, and Remote Working author, keynote speaker and executive with a focus on Organization Design (OD), Design Thinking, Employee Experience, digital transformation, innovation and disruption. He blends 20 years expertise providing a human-centered, design-based approach. He helps Middle- Eastern, African, and Asian organisations in the public and private sectors to achieve their business challenges. He has also setup multiple OD units over the last few years for companies like SABIC, Al Rajhi Bank, GIB and various semi-governmental and ministerial bodies in the GCC.

With his multi-industry experience, Frederik ensures that his clients are capable and prepared to execute current and future organisational strategies and meet business goals. He is a strategic professional who works directly with senior executives to align leadership vision, behaviors/practices, culture, measures, strategic workforce planning, performance and organisation development. He is a creative thinker, designer, problem solver, and decision maker. He has strong communication, interpersonal relations, coaching/mentoring, change management, and collaborative skills.

Philip Leijten

Energy Transition Business Advisor and Management Consultant

Philip Leijten: A respected energy professional with over 25 years’ experience in the corporate sector. Philip is a trusted advisor to energy companies and has a successful track-record in creating and implementing strategy, delivering complex business-wide change programs, originating and developing capital projects, managing design and execution activities as well as conducting investment appraisal and due diligence.

He provides consultancy to the decision makers in small and large businesses, increasingly with a focus on helping them navigate the transition to a more sustainable energy system.

Rami Itani

Partner, Vanguards Consulting
President of the Association of Business Process Management International (ABPMP) Middle East Chapter).

Rami is currently a Partner at VANGUARDS Consulting, a management consulting firm with deep functional knowledge spanning strategy formulation and execution, business process management and information technology. His areas of expertise include strategy formulation and execution (using the Balanced Scorecard framework), organisational design, business process optimisation and workflow, manpower optimisation, as well as developing and implementing policies and procedures relating to human resources, and finance and accounting.

Previously, Rami worked on performance improvement services at PriceWaterhouseCoopers. He has a vast exposure to multinational companies and his main focus is on helping clients translate their strategy into operations thus reengineering existing processes to accommodate the new strategic direction of the organisation, as well as increase efficiency and effectiveness. Rami is a member of the Association of Business Process Management International (ABPMP), an international organisation dedicated to the advancement of business process management concepts and practices.

Rami has led assignments across different industries including banking, contracting, F&B, media, manufacturing, production, etc. Such assignments ranged from complete turnaround situations (strategy formulation, organisation restructuring, and business process management) to scope specific projects like developing/cascading scorecards or restructuring of certain functions or processes.

Donny Raets

Training Consultant

Donny specialises in the teaching of defensible documentation, consumer choice and dignity of risk. She brings an extensive repertoire of examples, experience coaching documentation improvement, in addition to an engaging and fun delivery style.

Martin Bass

Martin is a highly experienced practitioner, trainer and facilitator specialising in stakeholder engagement, organisational development and integrated strategic planning. He has worked extensively with State Government agencies and local councils in metropolitan, regional and rural-remote areas across Australia. Martin is a specialist in the field of Integrated Planning and Reporting and has provided leadership, guidance and capacity-building to 15 councils with the development and review of their IP&R frameworks.

In addition, he has worked with a range of State and local government agencies on tasks including the development of community engagement manuals and guidelines, design and delivery of stakeholder and intergovernmental engagement initiatives, strategic and organisational planning and large and small group facilitation.

Martin provides regular professional development training to staff in State and local government agencies, in Stakeholder Engagement, Volunteer Management and Frontline Customer Service.

Ian Stokes

Project Management Practitioner

Ian Stokes is a project management specialist, certified facilitator and trainer who delivers process and learning solutions to the pharmaceutical industry.

His recent clients include Pfizer, Sanofi Aventis, Nestle, Danone and Celgene.

He delivers courses on several Master’s and MBA courses in France. As chairman of several project user communities in France he believes in a customer-centric approach to projects, with frequent feedback and open teamwork.

Ted Wainman

Associate Chartered Accountant (ACA)

Ted Wainman trained and qualified as an Associate Chartered Accountant (ACA) with Ernst & Young before joining JPMorgan on the Investment Management side of the business. Whilst at JPMorgan, he undertook a company sponsored MBA in the International Management of Financial Services, from which he graduated at the top of his class with merit.

Since 2003, Ted has been designing and delivering programmes for the private sector across a range of business needs. With a background in finance, Ted is able to explain complex financial concepts in plain English and help delegates learn the language of finance. Using practical examples gained in over 15 years of delivering financial workshops, Ted gives delegates the confidence to know what questions to ask regarding the financial drivers of their organisations.

Ted has worked with over 200 companies – primarily private or listed – from blue chips to financial services, including banks and insurance companies. He has worked in over 35 countries globally and is experienced in addressing the need of programmes across varying cultural backgrounds.

Ted is the author of “How to Talk Finance: getting to grips with the numbers in business” – published by Pearson (FT) in April 2015.
documentation required to defend care and the mistakes to avoid are invaluable.

Julian Roche

From an old real estate family in the UK, Julian Roche worked in the public service, as a private economist for Global Insight, as a partner in a real estate development company with US investments, and in real estate derivatives before launching his own real estate consultancy specialising in global data provision.

Later he spent five years as senior consultant to a venture capital company where he advised on corporate structure, flotations, trade sales and business valuations. He serves as Chief Economist of a chartered surveyor in Dubai and is also currently engaged on a research project into developer strategy at Curtin University. He has published a number of books on real estate and has presented a range of real estate courses internationally for the past sixteen years.

Capt. Robert Gordon, LLB, LLM, Master Mariner & Solicitor (England & Wales) – Managing Director, SeaProf Executive Education Former MD and Chairman, SEAsia P&I Services

Capt. Gordon spent 20 years at sea as a deck officer, shipmaster and pilot before coming ashore to study maritime law at the University of Southampton. He then qualified as a Solicitor and practiced as a partner with admiralty law firm, Thomas Cooper in London. Capt. Gordon founded SEAsia P&I Services, which specialises in marine casualty investigation and P&I correspondent defence work. SEAsia then expanded rapidly by creating a unique franchised network of 20 P&I correspondent offices throughout Asia. The network continues to operate successfully, providing high profile P&I claims investigation and resolution as well as loss prevention services to both International Group P&I Clubs and the fixed premium P&I insurance market.

Capt. Gordon has a special interest in sharing knowledge with the next generation of maritime industry professionals. He was engaged for many years as an Adjunct Lecturer and Professor
by the BI Norwegian School of Business in providing lecture modules on marine insurance, ship management and maritime law for Nanyang Technical University’s (NTU’s) highly regarded MSc in Shipping programme. Capt. Gordon, as MD of SeaProf Executive Education is now focused on the production and delivery of maritime business education courses in Australia and the Asian and Pacific regions.

Haroon Ali

Director, Australian Cyber Corporation

Haroon is well credentialed in all matters of Blockchain development cryptocurrencies trading and mining, as well as being an accomplished digital & cyber Security leader with more than 18 years of experience. Haroon’s well-developed sense of business acumen and cerebral rigour is backed up by demonstrated experience across the APAC & EMEA regions, in the development of digital ecosystems, cloud infrastructure, cyber security and software – all in highly complex digital environments. His impact is measured by his established record of influencing key business stakeholders in aviation, government, fintech, investment houses as well as retail & physical security industries.

He is driven by a passion for innovation to solve complex problems with imaginative and creative, but compelling solutions. He delivers on agreed outcomes by leading business and government organisations to invest in digital transformation to drive operational efficiencies and productivity enhancements and by driving their organisations’ information security maturity from reactive to risk aware proactive models.

Haroon’s drive and laser-like focus on Digital & Cyber Security, and adjacent skillsets in Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies is sure to inspire insightful observations and questions, to which Haroon is eager to respond at the conclusion of his presentation.

Max Riaz

Director, Banyantree Investment Group

Max has twenty years of experience in buyside equity research, funds management, and business management. His experience was gained at a large ASX listed investment management firm and ultra-high net worth Family Offices. Max is also a well experienced healthcare executive in addition to operational management experience earned earlier in his career in pharmaceuticals supply chain, large scale paper manufacturing, and logistics.

Jeffrey Blum (FICS, FCIArb)

Jeffrey Blum’s involvement in shipping and trading spans over 50 years. He is the fourth generation of a shipping family, has been an active member of the Baltic Exchange since 1976 and has worked with a Lloyd’s underwriter and as a shipbroker, ship owner and operator, gasoil futures broker, charterer and commodities trader in London and abroad. He achieved Fellowship of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers by examination in 1979 (3rd place globally) and since 1983 has served on the London & South East Branch Committee, including as its Education Officer since 2000, Chairman 2005-2007 and again Vice Chairman 2015-2017. as well as having served on the ICS International Controlling Council, the International Membership Committee and the UK & Ireland Zone Committee and now serving on the International Education Officers Committee.

Jeffrey has been a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators since 1997 (Honorary Associate since 1979) and has been an arbitrator (both sole and tribunal) under the Terms of both the London Maritime Arbitrators Association (LMAA) since 1994 and the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration (SCMA) since 2019. A member of the Baltic Exchange since 1976, he has been an expert witness since 1983 and is the Chairman of the Baltic Expert Witness Association (BEWA) since 2020. He was a panelist arbitrator on and served on the governing Council of the International Commodity and Shipping Arbitration Service (ICSAS) since its creation in 2005 until its closure in 2022.

Since 1984 he has been lecturing on maritime commercial subjects and law at universities and colleges throughout the UK. Since 2002 he is the founder director and principal lecturer (with 25 guest lecturers) of METL (Maritime Education & Training Ltd), a college in central London and online which prepares examinees for the ICS worldwide exams in nine core subjects. Since 2007 he is a Visiting Professor at the UN IMO’s World Maritime University in Malmo and at the Shanghai Maritime University and is a frequent presenter at public, bespoke and academic conferences and masterclass workshops worldwide. For many years he has contributed to trade magazines and books and is currently editing the 12th edition of a long-established textbook on Chartering. Jeffrey provides maritime and commodities commercial claims consultancy and training through Interlink International Trading (UK) Ltd which he founded in 1994. His clients include oil majors, commodity traders, shipowners, P&I Clubs, shipbrokers, law firms, banks, governments and international shipping organisations.

Joachim von Schéele, Global Director Commercialization, Linde plc

Joachim von Schéele received his MSc in Process Metallurgy and PhD in Production Engineering from Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden in 1987 and 1992, respectively.

With a mix of steel research and consultancy background, he joined the industrial gases industry in 1996. Since then, he has served in many different technical and commercial management roles at AGA, BOC and Linde, and been actively doing business in more than 40 countries around the world. After a decade in Asia, first in India as VP for South Asia and then in China heading Application Sales for Asia-Pacific, he is since 2020 based in Munich, Germany. With a focus on hard-to-abate-industries, Joachim von Schéele is very much engaged in driving the sustainability agenda – with focus on decarbonization – and involving and co-operating with Linde’s customers on this topic to achieve joint progress and success.

He is a world-leading expert on green steel production. Joachim von Schéele is a well-known speaker and has published more than 200 papers on energy and emission conservation, recycling, and production. He has served as a member of more than 30 boards of companies, associations, and research and education organizations, and as session chairman at many conferences. He is included in Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in Engineering, and Who’s Who in Asia, and he holds seven patents related to combustion and recycling.

Dr Cyril Jankoff

Consultant – Commercial Contracts & Procurement

Over the last 30 + years Cyril has worked as an external solicitor, in-house counsel as well as an accountant and financial controller. He also worked as the Australia and Oceania manager for a division of a global listed UK global publishing company.

He now works as a consultant, speaker, trainer, author and mentor in commercial contracts especially in procurement and Supplier Relationship Management as well as in business improvement and general management. For many years he also simultaneously worked as a Certified Practising Accountant in private practice and as a forensic accountant where he quantified loss of profits and damages claims in contested breach of contract commercial and fraud disputes. In addition to his MBA he has formal qualifications in law, accounting, contract management and education/training.

Cyril’s Doctorate is in business improvement and the necessary continuing professional development of the organisation’s managers and advisers. He has taught accounting, finance and law to executives and university undergraduate and post graduate students for over 30 years. Until recently he lectured in Contract Law on a part-time basis at a law school. He has for many years been closely involved with the International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM) and is on their International Advisory Council.

Christopher Lennon

Director, Stone Falcon Corporate and Legal Consulting Ltd

Christopher Lennon is the Director of Stone Falcon Corporate and Legal Consulting Ltd – a company that works internationally based in Scotland, UK. Chris has 30 years’ experience within the oil, gas and power industry, specialising in contractual issues, commercial negotiation and dispute resolution.

He is empanelled as both an Arbitrator and a Mediator at the Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC); has the Freedom of the City of London; is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a member of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators. He holds an MBA and LLB from the University of Aberdeen, as well as the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators DipICArb. He has over 20 years teaching experience within the field of international contracts and commercial negotiation – teaching and consulting around the world to a diverse clientele. He is currently under contract to write his second business book – commercial negotiation with Routledge/Taylor and Francis – to be published next year

Derek Viner

Derek is a qualified professional mechanical engineer. For the past 35 years he has been a consulting risk engineer and management consultant in risk control, working in a wide variety of industries. During this time he has also been instrumental in the development and delivery of two post graduate courses in this field. Derek is recognised as one of the leaders in Australia in the theory and practice of risk management on a theoretical, technical and organisational level. He is the author of two books, editor of another and the author of numerous papers.

Derek’s working experience has taken him to Africa, India, Thailand, Saudi Arabia and throughout Australia. His consulting experience covers mining (deep and surface), electricity generation and transmission, integrated steel plants, heavy engineering and heavy construction, manufacturing, local government, hospitality, forestry, fish farming, petro-chemicals and universities. Derek’s educational experience includes the conduct of post-graduate subjects in accident analysis, risk theory, risk management and risk analysis. His diverse experience ensures real-life examples are brought to any consultancy or educational role. A minor aspect of Derek’s practice has been as an expert witness; at one stage the value of his evidence was tested in the High Court of Australia and was not found wanting.

Derek has an honours degree in Science (Mech Eng) from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa and a Master of Science (Air Transport Engineering) from Cranfield University of Technology, United Kingdom. He has long term associations with the Faculty of Engineering and Science at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia and with the University of Ballarat.

Darren Lott

Darren has worked in a wide variety of industry sectors. Apart from designing and delivering training programs for a variety of clients Darren has managed a number of large scale change programs for organisations such as TYCO, Norfolk, The Department of Agriculture, Leighton Contractors and Meals on Wheels. In previous roles he managed the Workforce Planning for BHP and has been a HR Manager in the IT Industry.

Neil Macnab

(Class 1 Master Mariners) – Training Instructor, GTT Training LTD

Neil has been involved with the Maritime and Shipping industry for over 36 years where his foundation was built with Shell from Cadetship to Master.  Within 23 years at sea, Neil spent twenty on Crude Oil, Product Tankers, Bulk carrier and numerous LNG Carriers, both Moss and Membrane.

He was deeply engaged on trade in the Far East, Australia and Japan when he became Master on LNG carriers. Neil has completed numerous STS transfers for Crude Oil on VLCCs in the Gulf of Mexico and he performed weekly STS operations from 30,000 tons Product Carriers to small coasters in the Gulf of Thailand.

More recently Neil has carried out training and attended a number of LNG STS operations for Ship Management Companies in South America.

Aside from Shell, he has also worked for 12 years in shore side roles for global maritime companies such as K Line Shipping UK Limited, MOL LNG Transport Europe Ltd and BG Global LNG Shipping, where he has held HSSE Manager and operations roles.

Neil also has experience in accident and incident investigation and expert witness roles in numerous cases while working for marine consultancies, including collisions, groundings, unsafe ports, cargo loss and damage claims.

Some of his clients includes Maritime Port Authority of Singapore, British Wind Energy Association (UK), CNOOC, PPT PLC, BHP Billiton, MOL LNG, PSA Marine Pte Ltd, Pavilion Gas, V-Ships Greece. BP Shipping (Singapore), Marshall Islands Flag Administration, Conrad LNG and the USC, Port Klang Authority, China LNG Shipping, Chevron Shipping, Cameron Shipping, Dragon LNG Terminal.

Peter Motteram

Peter Motteram is Director of ProActive Study Management with offices in both London, UK and Boston, US. He has been in the industry for over 30 years and has spent the last 20 years consulting with companies on their clinical trials strategy, project management and CRO outsourcing.

He originally trained in biochemistry at the Universities of Birmingham and London, and after working in a London teaching hospital, he started his pharmaceutical work at Sterling Research Group as GCP Quality Assurance auditor. He moved to Quintiles, first founding their Quality Assurance department and then leading and developing their Business Development group outside US. As General Manager of ClinTrials Research, Peter had responsibility for offices in the non-Americas regions. ClinTrials Research was at that time the third largest global clinical trials CRO and was the first to do an IPO.

Since founding ProActive Study Management, a significant component of Peter’s work has been in running training courses, both public and tailored to in-house needs.

Stewart Rendell

Stewart has been involved in just about every facet of railway signalling works. Having started as a maintenance technician and through training and experience progressed to engineer and now manager. He has a broad range of knowledge and experience that is useful to others in the industry.

Stewart’s strengths are within signalling engineering, systems engineering and management within a cross-section of projects and railway undertakings. He enjoys helping guide others in achieving their career goals via his involvement in the Graduate Diploma in Railway Signalling as a course tutor with Competency Australia.

Stewart’s mission is to offer value adding input into project scoping and planning efforts, and be able to offer new and different approaches and technologies to challenge the ‘norm’ without comprising safety or the integrity of the signalling and control systems.

Chetan Hans

Director – Financial Reporting Advisory Services, Grant Thornton (Singapore)

Chetan has more than 12 years’ experience servicing large multinational clients in the areas of Assurance, Indian GAAP, US GAAP and IFRS technical accounting advisory. His international clients in India, US, UK, Middle East, Romania, Singapore range from shipping, logistics to healthcare, pharmaceutical services, general manufacturing, financial services. He’s trained finance teams in the areas such as

• Financial instruments, leases, consolidation, revenue recognition and business combinations, joint ventures, service concession arrangements
• Major corporates on topics including IFRS 15, IFRS 9 and IFRS 16

Gregory PIECHOWSKI

LNG/ Fuel Bunkering Instructor, GTT Training

After following dual purpose marine officer course at French maritime college, Gregory had been working on board tankers from 1994 to 2008. Starting as an engineer on VLCC then moving to Gas engineer on LPG/LNG tankers. Chief officer for 3 years on LPG/LNG carriers then Master from 2005 to 2008 on LNG and VLPG tankers.

Moving ashore in 2008, he worked for shipping companies first in France as Marine HSQE superintendent, then from 2015, in UK working for LNG shipping companies as Marine Manager. He was nivolved multiple activities during this period such as LNG Terminal commissioning and management, LNG Ship-to-ship operations development and management, new LNG fleet design, retrofitting existing fleet to improve performance, LNG to FSU conversion.

From 2021, Gregory joined GTT Training as an instructor, delivering LNG Cargo Opera?ons SIGTTO Management level, LNG as Fuel Bunkering operations, FSRU and STS operations, IGF basic, advanced and simulator course.

Philippe FRANCOIS

LNG Bunkering / Fuel Gas Instructor, GTT Training

After 20 years at sea mostly on board LNG and LPG tankers, Philippe signed off from the last vessel in 2010 as captain.

He worked whore for NYK in 2012 as marine HSEQ superintendent in London and was part of the NYK team for the commissioning of one of the first LNG bunkering vessels at that time, Engie Zeebrugge. He was in charge of 4 LNG vessels (Cuba) — Malanje — LNG Bomb — LNG Ogun) from a total of 12 vessels of the NYK fleet. Those vessels were part of the Angolanisation and Nigerianisation program where he was in charge of the training of Angolans and Nigerians seafarers for those vessels.

In 2017, Philippe joined BIM (Bureau International Maritime) as instructor for STCW basic safety training and basic and advanced gas courses. In 2018, he was selected by the University of Solent, Southampton to be lecturer for the Warsash Maritime Academy where he gave Training in Basic Oil & Chemical Tanker Cargo Operations , Training in Basic Liquified Gas Tanker Cargo Operations and Training in Advanced Liquified Gas Tanker Cargo Operations. I was also lecturer for ISM-ISO Lead auditor and Internal auditor.

End of 2021, Philippe worked for Pace Marine Solutions, an Indian based company specialized in LNG/LPG vessels and LNG bunkering vessels expertise. He did ISM-ISPS Navigational audits on board Celsius LNG vessels. Specialized in Optimoor Mooring studies, he was consultant on board vessel for LNG bunkering operations and training the crew and staff for LNG bunkering.

At present, from April 2023, Philippe works for GTT Training being instructor for LNG fuel gas operations – LNG bunkering – STCW IGC gas courses —STCW IGF gas courses — LNG SIGTTO cargo operations.

Theodosis Mourozis

Dr Theodosis (Theo) Mourouzis is a cryptologist and information security professional with strong interests in both academia and industry.

He holds a BA/MA in Mathematics and a MSc in Pure Mathematics (PART III – Number Theory Group) from University of Cambridge, a MRes in Security Science and a PhD in Information Security with Specialisation in Cryptography from University College London.

Theodosis is a recipient of the 1st award in the UK Cyber Cipher Security Challenge in 2013 and he has represented Cyprus four times in Balkan & International competitions in Mathematics.

Dr. Kyriacos (Kyri) Pavlou

Dr. Kyriacos (Kyri) Pavlou is a researcher and lecturer in Database Design, Security and Blockchain Technologies. He holds a MA (Cantab) in Genetics from the University of Cambridge and a double BSc in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Arizona. He completed his PhD on Database Forensics and Information Accountability at the University of Arizona. He has also worked as a postdoctoral research associate in the Computer Science department of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Dr. Pavlou currently serves as the Director of Executive Education at Electi Consulting and is laso a Research Associate at the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies (UCL CBT). He has been a member of the Republic of Cyprus blockchain working group tasked with the formulation of the country’s national strategy on blockchain. He has collaborated with several academic institutions working on EU-funded projects and has provided consulting services to a variety of major organizations including EY Cyprus, MSC Shipmanagement and the ECB.

Marco J. van Daal

Marco J. van Daal has worked in the heavy lift and transport industry since 1993. His experience includes projects on five continents and in over 55 countries and has resulted in a best-selling book, “The Art of Heavy Transport”. In 2006, he set up his own business in heavy lift and transport training and education. His second book, Roll-On Roll-Off Operations” is currently being reviewed by industry peers. Marco is also a contributing member on the B30 committee that is currently developing the standard for Hydraulic Platform Transporters. He was a member of the European Association of Abnormal Road Transport (ESTA) committee that established the “Best Practice Guide for Heavy Transport” document. An engineering graduate, he holds a postgraduate degree in general management and economics from Hogeschool in Amsterdam.

Marija Petkovic

Marija Petkovic is a leading expert in wholesale electricity markets and the transition to clean energy, having worked in this field for more than 12 years across Australia, New Zealand, and the United States.

Marija is currently Managing Director at Energy Synapse, a top analytics and advisory firm. Energy Synapse has been engaged to provide energy market advice to some of the biggest renewable energy developers in Australia as well as regulatory and government bodies. Marija’s commentary on energy issues is frequently featured in media as ABC News, Sydney Morning Herald, RenewEconomy and many more.

Throughout her career, Marija has been known for her innovation and ability to distil complex concepts and make them easy to understand by audiences of all levels. Marija currently serves on the Industry Advisory Committee at the University of Sydney and has previously served on the editorial board of Ecogeneration Magazine.

Marija holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical) (Hons I) and a Bachelor of Commerce (Finance) from the University of Sydney.

James Gardiner

Marine Engineering, LNG and Ship Fuels Expert

James is an Independent Marine Engineering Surveyor and Forensic Marine Engineer. For the past 27 years, he has been heavily engaged as an expert regarding LNG vessel and offshore platforms, STS – ports and harbour infrastructure, machinery failure investigation and safety, LNG propulsion and vessel component integrity and failure.

He advises multinational participants in the Oil and LNG/STS, and the geotechnical LNG drilling sector in areas regarding offshore LNG and oil platform installations in Australia, Europe, USA and throughout South East Asia.

He has been engaged on experimental and theoretical investigation of liquid hydrogen pool spreading and vaporization. Pool spreading and vaporization of liquid hydrogen. Simulation of Small-Scale Releases from Liquid Hydrogen Storage Systems by Oil and Gas majors internationally. His recent research has involved assessing cost-effective choices of marine fuels in a carbon-constrained world resulting from theoretical global energy models in Environmental science & technology.

He is an independent expert in the Marine Engineering field, dominating matters involving the Oil and LNG, Hydrogen and biofuel sectors. He lectures in the field of marine survey engineering, LNG auditing and safety throughout South East Asia, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia and the United States of America (Gulf). This includes developing and providing expert training in LNG and Hydrogen vessel and offshore platform HSE/NEBOSH/SIMOP/LNG/IMO and ILO.

Dr. Salma Michor

(PhD, MSc, MBA, CMgr, RAC-Treasurer), CEO, Michor Consulting

Salma has advised numerous global clients across Pharmaceutical, Medical and Food industries, including J&J, Novartis, Pfizer and Shire and many more. She had previously worked for Torrex-Chiesi (Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.A); Wyeth Whitehall Export, and Croma Pharma GmbH and had been the Director of Global Supporting Operations – Medical Devices and Pharmaceuticals (Ophthalmology & Orthopedics) where she was in-charge of technical and leadership of four departments – including Regulatory Affairs and Compliance; Medical and Vigilance; Change Control and Life Cycle Management; as well as Packaging and Pharmaceutical editing. Her duties included overall leadership & personnel management, budgeting and strategic planning, liaison with external contractors, doctors and customers in 60 countries worldwide. Here she also gained first-hand experience with submission of clinical trials phases:I-III as well as turnaround management of post-Mergers and Acquisitions integration operations.

Her experiences include:

• Post-acquisition phase-out and closedown after M&As
• Managing DCP registrations
• Consolidation of Multi-language labelling texts for pharmaceutical products and medical devices
• Forming clinical and registration strategies for medicinal products (combination, generics)
• Labelling compliance for drugs & food supplement
• Authoring CMC sections for drug products or drug/device combination products
• Preparing pharmaceutical and medical device companies for internal and FDA audits
• Managing large company-wide compliance projects (CAPA, GMP, ISO, etc)
• Preparing companies in 3rd countries for EMA, MHRA and AGES inspections and managing the whole biotech registration and clinical testing in the EU