Governing Councillors
JOHN DUMAY
John has been working as an independent business consultant across a wide variety of industries since 1992. In that time John's work has gravitated towards the management, measurement and reporting of intellectual capital and was the basis of his PhD research program. John's work had been accepted for publication in academic journals and he has presented at many international conferences. His academic work has included research at both Sydney University and the Macquarie Graduate School of Management. John currently lectures part-time in Management Account at the Master level at Sydney University. John is also and accredited Cognitive Edge practitioner with particular skills in IT. He was the first practitioner to trial and use the SenseMaker© narrative database software in Australia and has been involved in providing feedback to Cognitive Edge for the software. As a result John has been involved in a number of Australian and international research projects that utilise software for both qualitative and qualitative analysis. Some of the major organisations John has worked with include, NSW Department of Lands, Westpac Bank, Yum Brands, Singapore Ministry of Education, and Hewitt & Associates. John is currently a Chair of the Society of Organisational Learning Australia, Deputy Chair of the NSW Knowledge Management Forum and Vice-President of the Graduate Management Association of Australia. John can be contacted by e-mailing john.dumay@solaustralia.org. |
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Directors
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Lee Carsley - PeoplePractical. Lee is the founding consultant for PeoplePractical, an 8 year old virtual network of consultants committed to delivering robust practical change, using contemporary management models and innovative facilitation processes, and now Vice President of SoLA. Lee has been working with organizations, small and large, public and private, around complex people and process issues for the past 15 years. She helps organization address such complex questions as: what should the business structure look like? How do we create the change we need to become more innovative and adaptive? What management capabilities do we need and how do we get them? When she discovered SoLA, and found that its aims were about building capability in organisational learning principles and practice for practitioners using a not for profit model, being collaborative and building communities that shared knowledge, she knew she had to get involved. She is passionate about sharing knowledge, knows that its codification means its commoditisation and significant loss in real learning terms. She prefers collaboration to competition, and is always interested in helping members find ways to engage with each other in open safe spaces. At the moment, she is pursuing ways to create learning communities of young people in organisations, with SoLA as the space provider and facilitator. |
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Brian Donaldson Brian is the director of a Brisbane-based management advisory business. He joined SOLA after having some attachment to Senge’s work on how organisations learn. He has worked with most of the current directors in one role or another. For example he has worked with Viv Read to extend the Society’s organisational learning agenda to include the Cynefin Centre’s framework on Social Complexity. That framework and the accompanying tools are now available through the public programs, sponsored by SOLA in the Asia Pacific. Brian puts time into helping organisations become more agile and achieve their intended business results through tapping the best from their people and breaking with unhelpful habits. He moves comfortably between a project management orientation and an event facilitation bias. He likes to bring energy and spirit to the work done with clients so that their view of the future and their role in it is enhance or moves to the front foot. Brian lives in Brisbane with Julie and Riley, one of their two adult offspring. Their life patterns are anchored around time together, time with friends, farm, beach, tennis… and preparing good food. Most of his learning is based around consulting partnerships and communities, where ideas are shares, used and further developed… to be shared again. |
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Paul Higgins Paul is a core consultant and director of Emergent Futures, a company specialising in the use of foresight in the creation of organisational strategies. He is passionately interested in how we can all think better about the future and therefore create a better future for our children and was one of the first graduates from the Australian Foresight Institute Masters program at Swinburne University. Paul became interested in the principles of organisational learning as a method of executing the new visions and strategies created by the use of foresight techniques and deep reflection in organisations. Paul is a veterinarian and a company director on several company boards. |
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Viv Read - Crosstech Pty Ltd Sydney I have been involved in organisational transformation and renewal projects for some 30 years in the public, private and community sectors. My passion is helping to create opportunities and environments that encourage innovation, creativity, and self responsibility for everyone. My personal learning journey has included industrial relations and workplace reform, culture change, organisation and work design and leadership development. My current focus of work and learning includes the application of systems thinking in human systems, tools and processes for addressing complex issues, and the challenges of building and sustaining networks and communities of practice. |
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Dr Elyssebeth Leigh Elyssebeth began her career as a high school teacher. And quickly shifted gear to adult education All these years later she is aware that core principles, already present in her classroom practice, contributed to the abrupt end of what had been intended as a life long career. These principles were documented in her doctoral thesis (this can be downloaded at http://adt.lib.uts.edu.au/public/adt-NTSM20040831.172032/) on facilitating adults learning about organisational behaviour via a simulation paralleling aspects of their 'at work' realities. In recent years she has been a member of the Design Teams for the first and second Global SoL Forums held in Finland (2003) and Austria (2005). She has also contributed to planning for extension of the SoL international network and is committed to the principles and practices of capacity building for lifelong learning and effective application of personal mastery. She works with individuals and organizations to engage them in self-sustaining, replicable, and continuously evolving learning. Her key message is admirably captured by a 2006 student who offered the following observation about the experience of learning with Elyssebeth "The two major themes I found laced throughout each lecture were: Think and Question". Convinced that we 'know more than we can say, and can say more than we can write' (Snowden, Cognitive Edge) she designs and uses simulations and learning games to create opportunities to live the knowledge we have but cannot articulate without help. In the first half of 2007 she has academic leave to focus on encouraging academics, consultants and teachers to design and use simulations to extend their repertoire for supporting learning. |
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John Dumay Master of Business Administration (Executive) AGSM Master of Arts in Management Research Methods MGSM PhD Candidate, Sydney University John has been working as an independent business consultant across a wide variety of industries since 1992. In that time John's work has gravitated towards the management, measurement and reporting of intellectual capital and is the basis of his current PhD research program. John's work had been accepted for publication in academic journals and he has presented at international conferences. His academic work has also led to his employment as a research assistant at both Sydney University and the Macquarie Graduate School of Management. John is also and accredited Cognitive Edge practitioner with particular skills in IT. He was the first practitioner to trial and use the SenseMaker© narrative database software in Australia and has been involved in providing feedback to Cognitive Edge for the software. As a result John has been involved in a number of Australian and international research projects that utilise software for both qualitative and qualitative analysis |
