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Meet Your Program Director - James Yorston

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Meet Your Program Director - James Yorston

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My purpose is to challenge and support leaders to stay with rather than defend against organisational complexity. This affords the possibility of increased productivity, creativity and sustainability.

My practice in the leadership space is shaped two key elements: my lived experience in senior leadership roles and my deep experience in adult development.

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My purpose is to challenge and support leaders to stay with rather than defend against organisational complexity. This affords the possibility of increased productivity, creativity and sustainability.

My practice in the leadership space is shaped two key elements: my lived experience in senior leadership roles and my deep experience in adult development.

Over the last two decades I have held senior leadership roles in large organisations in both Australia and Asia. This gives me a felt experience for the challenges, tensions and expectations faced by senior leaders. Secondly, through lifelong studies I have also gained a deep appreciation of the way adults develop and learn. This brings in concepts such as vertical development and understanding the conscious and unconscious dynamics in organisational life.

I am also big advocate of the term 'giving the work back'. I see my role as facilitating and unleashing others potential, rather than clients become dependent upon me for the answers.

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James Yorston - Executive Education Leadership Development - Melbourne Business School | LinkedIn

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My purpose is to challenge and support leaders to stay with rather than defend against organisational complexity. This affords the possibility of increased productivity, creativity and sustainability. My practice in the leadership space is shaped two key elements: my lived experience in senior leadership roles and my deep experience in adult development.

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Hi this is Neville Poon and I am the commercial manager of MCD looking after NSW/ACT. I have a family of 4, elder daughter is 13 and younger son is 11. We have just moved from Hong Kong around 2 years ago. Before that I worked in Hong Kong over 25 years in construction after I finished by degree in Quantity Surveying in the UK. I am a keen fisherman so anyone want to go for a flip just let me know.

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Delivering strong business results in the short-term while growing long-term client relationships is challenging.

Addressing this challenge is interesting and worthwhile work for senior executives.
I look forward to engaging with you as you look to develop your capabilities in this area.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/don-o-sullivan-31079124/

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It is a privilege to help develop or fine tune the strategic awareness of the participants on our programs at Melbourne Business School. I say that, because of the calibre of the people that we get in these programs. The positions they lead now and in the future are positions that will shape our society, meaning it is incredibly important that the concept of strategy is well understood. I love being part of that journey. The sharing of strategic challenges and approaches taken to simply creating, socialising and implementing strategy – by myself and other experienced managers in the room – provides an understanding of best practice in the field of strategy. It is really rewarding to see people come away with hard action plans as to how they can socialise their strategies with their teams and make clear choices about how they will play and win in the future.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoff-martin-4a11721/

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Enabling organisations, leaders and senior executives to perform better and with purpose. My key tools for this are executive development, deep facilitation and work-centered learning. Its all about helping senior leaders to talk nice, share their toys, and think...

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Co-Founder and Director XEd Space Pty Ltd | Board Member at The Centre for Social Purpose | Associate Principal Consultant - Melbourne Business School |
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Enabling organisations, leaders and senior executives to perform better and with purpose. My key tools for this are executive development, deep facilitation and work-centered learning. Its all about helping senior leaders to talk nice, share their toys, and think...

An effective senior executive with strong leadership and strategic skills, and proven capability in cultural change, business turn-around and improvement programs to achieve profitable operations. Extensive hands-on experience managing large teams, complex operations and projects. Deep HR expertise gained by leading human capital consulting organisations and academic pursuits.

Passionate about improving organisational and individual performance, and the impact of organisational culture.

+ Deep facilitation + Senior executive coaching + Executive development and education
+ Leadership, influencing, negotiation and stakeholder engagement
+ HR / Human Capital Solutions expert - strategy, delivery, consulting
+ Leading and managing change programs + Repositioning business - culturally and behaviourally
+ General management including complex project, business and operations
+ Strategic leadership and management of professional consulting services firms
+ Relationship development & management
+ Business development, sales & marketing, leading sales teams
+ Significant international experience: Strong cultural ability and sensitivity

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Michael Curtin - Co-Founder and Director - XEd Space Pty Ltd | LinkedIn

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Co-Founder and Director XEd Space Pty Ltd | Board Member at The Centre for Social Purpose | Associate Principal Consultant - Melbourne Business School | _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Enabling organisations, leaders and senior executives to perform better and with purpose. My key tools for this are executive development, deep facilitation and work-centered learning.

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I am the Regional Engineering Manager for Vic/Tas Region in MCD. I am also currently Senior Engineering Manager for the New Bridgewater Bridge Project in Tasmania.

After spending 5 years in Adelaide working on Adelaide based projects, I am back into the hustle and bustle of big city life in Melbourne, including regular trips to Hobart and I am not sure if I like it.

My wife and two high school kids are settling into Melbourne and we enjoying being back around our extended family. We are still working out our operating rhythm, finding new extracurricular activities to get involved in.

I really enjoy leading teams and working collaboratively together to produce outstanding outcomes. I have already been involved in a number of great jobs with MCD and look forward what comes next.

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Hi Everyone...my name is Hugh Milliken. My current role is MCD Project Director - Major Projects, in the NZ business. My career background is lots of years project delivery, building in scale and complexity as the years have passed. I'm here to continue the conversation about leadership, and believe that these courses are great spaces to learn more tools and to reflect on what kind of leader I aspire to be (and sometimes how/why that's not the kind of leader I actually am!). It'll be interesting to hear the experience of others and their own reflections as there's power in the sharing. For myself I've been part of and lead small, medium and large teams, and have started and run a successful volunteer organization too...each has it's own lessons and ways to do things well. My last word will be a meme...because it made me laugh!

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Hi Everyone...my name is Hugh Milliken. My current role is MCD Project Director - Major Projects, in the NZ business. My career background is lots of years project delivery, building in scale and complexity as the years have passed. I'm here to continue the conversation about leadership, and believe that these courses are great spaces to learn more tools and to reflect on what kind of leader I aspire to be (and sometimes how/why that's not the kind of leader I actually am!). It'll be interesting to hear the experience of others and their own reflections as there's power in the sharing. For myself I've been part of and lead small, medium and large teams, and have started and run a successful volunteer organization too...each has it's own lessons and ways to do things well. My last word will be a meme...because it made me laugh!

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Hi I'm Helen Gordon-Clark and I'm the National Submissions Manager for McConnell Dowell. I manage a team of submissions coordinators and a graphic designer located across Australia.

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Hi I'm Helen Gordon-Clark and I'm the National Submissions Manager for McConnell Dowell. I manage a team of submissions coordinators and a graphic designer located across Australia.

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I am Melbourne born and bred, although I have travelled and I lived in Sydney for three and a half years before coming back home.

I just bought myself a house, so I am having lots of time decorating and changing the garden around completely.

With this course I hope to improve my skills and become a better leader within the business.