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In 2002 Jason established Dynamic Horizons, centred around the creation of value in Corporations from Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the development of Innovative and Entrepreneurial Leaders. In 2003 Jason co-founded the Asia Pacific Management Development Consortium with Professor Bob Boyd. The APMDC works with global companies operating in the APAC region to improve their people’s management and leadership skills. APMDC clients include Siemens Ltd (Melbourne, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Thailand, Mainland China and Taiwan) and VERITAS (Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore). Jason is an accredited administrator of the MBTI™ EIR and FIRO-B™ instruments and is currently the subject convenor for Negotiation Skills and Strategic Relationships in the Masters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship. Jason is also Chairperson of the St Bernard’s Primary School Board. Tim Morris Partner Motivated and energetic, Tim’s primary interest is stimulating entrepreneurial growth and innovation within organisations. With a Bachelor of Business Entrepreneurship from RMIT, and time spent at Babson College, Boston, Tim has a strong background in innovation, corporate entrepreneurship and business planning. Two years as the Innovation Manager for water retailer South East Water further developed his knowledge of innovation processes and provided hands-on experience running an award winning innovation program. Tim has worked with a many of our clients to develop successful innovation strategies. Prior to joining as a partner of Dynamic Horizons, Tim spent six years in a senior role with one of Melbourne’s leading hospitality companies. This fostered in him a strong customer service orientation and exceptional communication and interpersonal skills. Tim is also a member of the Edmund Rice Camps Fundraising Committee. Edmund Rice Camps provide holiday experiences for some of Victoria’s most disadvantaged children and families. The Fundraising Committee coordinates unique events to raise money for this worthy cause. Kate O'Keeffe Associate Kate is a committed entrepreneur, starting and successfully selling a number of businesses over the past 10 years. With a Masters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Kate is the convenor of the subject "eBusiness for Competitive Advantage" for the MBA program at Swinburne University in Melbourne. Kate’s interests lie in creativity, business case development and is a project manager certified in the PRINCE2 methodology. In short, she can help develop a concept throughout the innovation lifecycle, from idea development to profitable implementation. She is a certified coach, NLP practitioner and hypnotherapist, skills that contribute significantly to her skills as a communicator and a facilitator within varied and challenging environments. Her industry experience both in Australia and in Europe extends to software, the Internet, retail, automotive and petroleum, and she has been involved with Dynamic Horizons since September 2006. Peter Alderson Associate Peter joined Dynamic Horizons from Offspring Ventures where he worked as a Commercialisation Analyst. While at Offspring, Peter advised academic institutions on the commercialisation of internally-developed technologies. He also worked with government research groups such as the CSIRO and the DSTO, serving on the DSTO Technology Transfer Advisory Panel. Prior to joining Offspring, Peter was the founder and CEO of Skoovo; a specialist, outdoor advertising firm utilizing publicly-accessible computer terminals. In less than a year, Skoovo gained more than 140 advertising locations across three states targeting the Australian tourism market. Before launching Skoovo, Peter had spent two years at Australian Anthill magazine; Australia's first magazine dedicated to innovation and entrepreneurship. While at Anthill, Peter was responsible for editing the venture capital, private equity-focused pages of the publication. Peter holds a Diploma in Electronics and a Bachelor of Business degree specialising in Entrepreneurship. Bob Boyd Professor Bob Boyd left Deakin University in February 1999 after 31 years in the higher education university sector to work full time in his growing consulting business. Bob is currently a Director and Company Secretary of Strategic Journies (Australia) Pty Ltd., a management and organisational development company specialising in professional development and business improvement programs. In 2003 Bob co-founded the Asia Pacific Management Development Consortium with Jason Cotton. The APMDC works with global companies operating in the APAC region to improve their people’s management and leadership skills. The focus of these programs was on business transformation, professional development, organisational change, developing high performance organisations, high performance leaders, and strategy management. Bob maintains extensive business networks throughout South-East Asia and has an excellent reputation with executives and senior staff across the region. Bob is also involved in consulting and facilitating programs with clients in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane on strategic directions, leadership, change management and improving performance and workplace relationships. In the last five years clients have included: Siemens, VERITAS, BASF, Department of Justice, Preshill School and Bendigo Bank. Bob brings to his work with managers sound and practical development strategies based on experience and a continuing interest and familiarity with management literature, research and practice. He has demonstrated a capacity to create high performance cross-cultural teams working constructively on business improvement processes. John Batros John is Managing Director of Eudaemonia Human Resource Consultants and Lecturer in Organisation Dynamics at the Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship, Swinburne University of Technology. Formerly with BHP and Shell, he has a lifelong interest in how people work at individual, group and organisation levels. He has conducted many public programs on leading, following and team dynamics, negotiating, consulting and emotional intelligence. John is an organisation development consultant specialising in facilitating team development and has experience in the IM domain. A trained Gestalt therapist, he argues that emotional presence complements rationality. Judgment can be informed by emotion. His paper, "The Intelligence of Emotion", appeared in the Local Government Manager in 2002 and he presented, 'Why Information Technology Needs Emotionally Intelligent Team Leaders: "Soft Skills Have Hard Consequences"' at the Australian Computer Society Conference, 2004. Enabling people to be emotionally present at work is energising, critical for bottom line success and essential if the human potential that lies dormant in organisational life is to be realised. Peter Pearce Founder of the Asia Pacific Training Institute, Peter has worked with private and public organisations across Australia. Peter helps them improve their performance by: designing and facilitating change initiatives; delivering customised training programs for senior managers and frontline operators; and assisting business units to identify and successfully implement changes to improve process and systems performance. Peter has extensive experience in the field of education and training which is backed by a Masters Degree in Instructional Design from Florida State University, an internationally recognised qualification. He also has a Diploma of Education and Bachelor of Science from Adelaide University and has completed the University of NSW Executive Development Program.
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