Experience

Ernie began his career as a psychologist at Victoria University, one of the largest tertiary institutions in Australia with campuses across the globe.

He soon assumed senior management responsibilities for a range of cross functional university services. For four years he was a member of the University Council involved in making strategic decisions about the future of the institution.

In 2005 he joined a senior team of aid workers from Oxfam GB who were deployed to Indonesia following the Asian tsunami. As an HR specialist his role was to support several thousand aid workers who were helping the survivors of the tsunami. He designed programs, mobilised resources, managed and implemented services and provided high-level advice to other aid agencies. Because his programs were embedded in the rescue and recovery phase of the humanitarian response, they were regarded as ground breaking. Today his approach is adopted by many aid agencies as standard operating practice

Over the last seven years he has been working with senior executives in the Asia Pacific region in a variety of global organisations. He has coached executives from a large mining company with operations in China and Mongolia on leading global teams. In 2010 he delivered leadership programs for executive directors in the health sector in the Pacific. Also in 2010 he designed and delivered leadership and change management programs for a major national broadcaster in the Pacific.

Ernie has a strong interest in global leadership and works with leading institutions around the world on global leadership challenges. He has completed a leadership development program at Harvard University and is currently collaborating with Thunderbird University (Phoenix, Arizona) on global leadership assessment. He also collaborates with the Kozai Group (US) a research institution which specialises in mapping cross cultural capabilities for staff in global organisations. He has similar arrangements with IMD (Lausanne Switzerland).

Ernie lives in the Macedon Ranges, enjoys travelling with his family, follows the school and sporting activities of his sons and helps his wife maintain a 3½ acre garden.

 

Coaching & behavioural science qualifications

• Masters of Educational Psychology, Melbourne University 1985
  
• Graduate Diploma of Applied Social Psychology, Swinburne University, 1981

Business qualifications and business experience (selected)

• MBA, RMIT University, 1999
  
• Bachelor of Arts, Psychology & Sociology, Swinburne University, 1979
  
• Art and Practice of Leadership Development, Harvard University, 2004
  
• Director, International Programs, ABC
  
• Manager, Innovation and Technology, Rio Tinto
  
• Manager Exploration China and Mongolia, Rio Tinto
  
• General Manager, Vanuatu Broadcasting Corporation

Selected client organisations

Clients include: ABC, Defense Materiel Organisation, AusAid, Rio Tinto, SKM, Vanuatu Broadcasting Corporation, Siloam Group (Indonesia), Commonwealth Attorney General’s Office

Registrations, Memberships and Affiliations

• Member, Australian Psychological Society (MAPS)
  
• State Committee Member, APS College of Organisational Psychology

Instrument Accreditations

Benchmarks, California Psychological Inventory (CPI), Campbell Leadership Index (CLI), Conflict Dynamics Inventory (CDP 360), FIRO-B, FourSight, Global
Competencies Inventory (GCI), Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI), MBTI, Skillscope, The Attentional and Interpersonal Survey (TAIS)