Keynote speakers

The program will feature keynote presentations and workshops from the following internationally acclaimed speakers:

Professor Jacqueline Coyle-Shapiro
London School of Economics
United Kingdom

Professor Mark Griffin
University of Western Australia
Australia

Professor Timothy Judge
University of Notre Dame
USA

Professor Ann Marie Ryan
Michigan State University
USA

Mr Serge Sardo
Australian Human Resources Institute
Australia

Dr Randall White
Executive Development Group and Duke University
USA

Professor Jacqueline Coyle-Shapiro

Professor Jacqueline Coyle-Shapiro
Professor Jacqueline Coyle-Shapiro

Managing employee-organisation relationships in the 21st century

Jacqueline Coyle-Shapiro is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) where she received her PhD in 1996. Prior to joining the LSE, she was a lecturer at the School of Management, University of Oxford.

She has published in such journals as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior and the Journal of Vocational Behavior. She is currently senior editor at the Journal of Organizational Behavior.

Jacqueline's research focuses on studying relationships in organizational settings; their antecedents, mechanisms and consequences. Specifically, her research interests include employee-organization relationship, psychological contracts, perceived organizational support, social exchange theory, organizational justice, organizational citizenship behaviour, and communal relationships. She is also a member of the Innovation Co-creation Lab where she conducts research on how relationships within groups facilitate or hinder the innovation process.

Professor Mark Griffin

Professor Mark Griffin

How do leaders enhance both safety and productivity in organisations? 

Mark Griffin is Winthrop Professor of Organizational Psychology in the School of Psychology at UWA. His research seeks to understand how organizational contexts shape and are shaped by individual performance and well-being.

Current projects investigate leadership, safety, performance management, and work stress. He was awarded an ARC Future Fellowship in 2010 and joined UWA after four years working in the Institute of Work Psychology at the University of Sheffield.

He received his Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the Pennsylvania State University and is currently Associate Editor of the Journal of Management and a new theory journal titled Organizational Psychology Review.

Professor Timothy Judge

Professor Timothy Judge
Professor Timothy Judge

The illusions under which we labour:  A practical challenge to organisational psychology

Timothy Judge is the Franklin D. Schurz Professor of Management, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame. Previously, Judge has been a member of the faculties of Cornell University, the University of Iowa and, most recently, the University of Florida.

In his career, Judge has published 130 articles in refereed journals, including 82 articles in top-tier journals. According to Google Scholar, his research has been cited over 15,000 times. Judge is a fellow of the Academy of Management, the American Psychological Association, and the American Psychological Society.

He serves on the editorial review boards of eight journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Personnel Psychology. Judge has served as Division Chair for the Human Resources Division of the Academy of Management, and currently serves on the Academy of Management's Board of Governors.

Judge's research interests are in the areas of personality and individual differences, leadership, moods and emotions, and career and life success. Tim has been married to his wife Jill for 27 years and they have three children: Abigail (22), Martha (16), and Carsten (7).

Professor Ann Marie Ryan

Ann Marie Ryan
Professor Ann Marie Ryan

Strategies for managing a stigmatised identity in the workplace

Ann Marie Ryan is a professor of organisational psychology at Michigan State University, United States. Her major research interests involve improving the quality and fairness of employee selection methods, and topics related to diversity and justice in the workplace.  She also has recently conducted research on work/non-work conflict. 

In addition to publishing extensively in these areas, she regularly consults with organisations on improving assessment processes.  She is a past president of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology and past editor of the journal Personnel Psychology.  

Ann Marie has a long record of professional service on association committees, National Academy of Science panels, and she currently serves on the Defense Advisory Committee on Military Testing.

She received her BS with a double major in psychology and management from Xavier University and her MA and Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

 

Mr Serge Sardo

Serge Sardo
Serge Sardo

The workforce of the future - human resource challenges and opportunities 

Serge Sardo is the CEO and managing director of the Australian Human Resources Institute. He was formerly the director of business development at the Australian Institute of Management and has previously held senior management roles in consulting practices.

He has worked with global companies in such industries as mining, manufacturing, finance and insurance. Serge also has strong links and experience within the small business and community sectors, and has held several non-executive roles within community organisations.

Serge's formal qualifications include an MBA and he is a registered organisational psychologist. Serge has also won research awards with his work on emotional intelligence and leadership with publications in the BRW, the London Business School Journal, The Age and the Financial Review.

Dr Randall White

Randall White

The uncertain leader - a more realistic assessment of leadership skill 

Randall P. White, PhD, is a founding partner of Executive Development Group in Greensboro, NC, and an international thought leader in the field of executive coaching and leadership development. 

He works as an executive coach, a leadership development instructor and facilitator, and is an HEC Affiliate Professor, an adjunct professor at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, and teaches with Duke Corporate Education (Durham, London, Johannesburg, and Ahmedabad) and IE Business School (Madrid). 

The author of three books and more than 100 articles and book chapters, Dr White’s writing illuminates leadership, talent management and executive coaching.  He is a quoted source in the consumer and trade press.

In 1987, Dr. White co-authored the best-selling business book, Breaking The Glass Ceiling: Can Women Reach The Top Of America's Largest Corporations?; and in 1996, The Future of Leadership: Riding the Corporate Rapids into the 21st Century

He also co-authored Four Essential Ways That Coaching Can Help Executives in 1998 and Relax, It's Only Uncertainty in 2001, which culminated in the development of Ambiguity Architect, a 360 assessment that measures the ability to manage uncertainty. 

In 2009, he contributed the capstone chapter to The Perils of Accentuating the Positive, challenging the strengths-based leadership movement.  Much of Dr White’s work appears in multiple Western languages and Chinese.

Dr. White studied at Georgetown University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Cornell University, where he earned a doctorate in social psychology. He is the former Director of Specialized Client Applications at the Center for Creative Leadership, where he was responsible for all custom programs, and has taught at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell.

As a former president of the Society of Consulting Psychology (SCP), Division 13 of the American Psychological Association, a Fellow in Divisions 1 and 13 of the American Psychological Association, a Salzburg Fellow on Women’s Issues and a former board member of the American Society for Training and Development, Dr White has continually participated in the advancement of consulting psychology for leadership development. He currently leads the SCP international special interest group and publishes a blog on leadership (www.edgp.com/blog). 

A competitive yachtsman, Dr White contributes consulting time to Save The Children and other international philanthropic causes. He resides in Wilmington, NC, where he sails, plays tennis, cycles, and walks his bearded collie.