Summer Retreat

adeeperconversationaboutchange

Communicating Change / Peter Thompson

Mindful Change / Dr Mary Gentile

Creative Change / Patrick McIntyre

Ethical Change / Dr Simon Longstaff

Rapid Change / John Bruce-Smith

Being the Change / Jacki Johnson

+ other speakers / workshops

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Friday February 7 - Sunday February 9, 2014

University of New England

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nourish the mind (and the soul)

Change is complex wherever and whenever it occurs. In many

ways it is the natural order of decline and regeneration that

as an ongoing process brings new possibilities and in other

situations it can be devastating. The subtle forces, the politics,

the morality, the emotion and the personal judgment is what

will be considered throughout the weekend.

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The University of New England is well known for its

highly ranked quality of student experience; excellence

in research; strong commitment to innovation; social

inclusion; and responsiveness to the aspirations of

students, staff, partners and the New England Region.

The UNE Summer Retreat is a signature event on the UNE

calendar. The New England setting provides a chance

to experience the tangible and intangible assets of the

University and the community which forms its solid

foundation.

The inaugural event in 2014 is hosted by the UNE

Business School and will enable participants to engage

with thought leaders around the theme of: ‘A deeper

conversation about change’.

The central themes proposed for the inaugural 2014 UNE

Summer Retreat include:

• Communicating Change: Peter Thompson, Director of

the Centre for Leadership

• Mindful Change: Mary Gentile, Director, Giving Voice To

Values, Babson College USA

• Creative Change: Patrick McIntyre, Executive Director

The Sydney Theatre Company

• Ethical Change : Dr Simon Longstaff, CEO St James

Ethic Centre

• Rapid Change: John Bruce-Smith, CFO Atlassian

• Being the Change : Jacki Johnson, CEO IAG New

Zealand Ltd

Particular emphasis will be given to presenters with

expertise in generating change in a variety of settings

including regional locations. The Summer Retreat will

integrate academic and cross-disciplinary fields of

endeavour, providing insights for students, business

leaders and academics engaged in a range of business

environments and disciplines, from not for profit, for profit

and government agencies.

Overall the UNE Summer Retreat will aim to identify,

profile and inspire excellence through a series of crafted

conversations and activities.

Participants will question and explore organisational practices

and issues and be invited to imagine futures that create hope

and energy. Through dialogue and action learning the Retreat

participants will have access to business leaders and academics

renowned for their capacity to generate change.

imagine futures a deeper conversation about change

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COURSE OVERVIEW

A stimulating program of knowledge-sharing, expert seminars and active conversation on

the themes of leading change, awareness, resilience and the future.

COURSE INVESTMENT

$995 (plus gst) fee includes tuition, course materials, UNE residential accommodation and meals.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Do you work in an organisation and want to learn more about how to bring about change in a way that generates goodwill, is morally responsible, considers a long term perspective, and is a creative solution?

Your organisation may be a small or medium size business or a large organisation, for profit, not for profit or a government agency. Our participants will come from a range of sectors from financial services, agribusiness, education or health. A major strength of the Retreat is the opportunity to discuss change with others working in different discipline areas.

This may be your first time visiting UNE or you may be a postgraduate student or Alumnus of the Graduate School of Business.

The Summer Retreat will give you a unique opportunity to meet and discuss leading change from

many and varied perspectives.

HOW TO APPLY

ONLINE

LOCATION

UNE On-Campus experience

Current UNE MBA students

may count the retreat as

16 hours of professional

development towards their

Leadership Development

ePortfolio.

Is this weekend for me?

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4.00pm: Guests arrive. Registration and informal BBQ dinner - Booloominbah lawns

Head of UNE Business School, Professor Alison Sheridan

8.00am: Registration and coffee - hand out of ‘survival packs’

8:30am – 9:00am: Welcome

Welcome to MC: Peter Thompson – ‘here is how the weekend is going to work’.

9:00am A deeper conversation Saturday

Peter Thompson/Dr Simon Longstaff/Patrick McIntyre

9:00am: Live feed Boston USA – Professor Mary Gentile

10:30am Morning tea

11:00: Masterclass 1 - Communicating change – Peter Thompson

12.00pm: Masterclass 2 - Leading change ethically – a critical incident approach – Dr Simon Longstaff

12:30pm: ‘Lunch on the Lawn’

1:30pm: Masterclass 3 - The rehearsal, dancing with change – Patrick McIntyre

2:30 – 4.00pm: ‘Experience the Highs’ activities

‘Into the archives’ New England Regional Art Museum Bush walk – Dangars Falls, New England National • Park • Heritage Tour • UNE Museum Tour

5.30pm: Drinks

6.00pm – 6.30pm: Global perspective - John Bruce-Smith, former CFO Atlassian

7.00pm: Dinner

7.30pm: Evening Key note: ‘Being the Change’ Jacki Johnson, CEO IAG New Zealand Ltd

6.00am – 9.00am: Early ‘Experience the Highs’ – Leadership/contemplative walk to Blue Hole, New England National Park • Gorge country –alternative use of space. Change is all about looking from a different perspective • Sacred site – meditative/contemplative experience

Egg & Bacon Roll BBQ Brekkie10.00am – 12:00pm: Panel event: A deeper conversation Sunday. ‘Mobilising ourselves, mobilising others’ • Professor Jim Barber - VC, CEO UNE • Jacki Johnson - CEO IAG New Zealand Ltd • John Bruce-Smith - former CFO Atlassian

12.00pm: Lunch

1.00pm: Weekend wrap-up

AO – Executive Director, St James Ethics Centre

Dr Simon Longstaff’s distinguished career includes

being named as one of AFR Boss True Leaders for the

21st century with Carol Schwartz noting “…I don’t

know one CEO or chairman in corporate Australia

who has not worked with Simon Longstaff…”.

Dr Longstaff has a PhD in Philosophy from

Cambridge. Prior to becoming the inaugural

Executive Director of St James Ethics Centre in 1991,

he worked in the Northern Territory in the Safety

Department of BHP subsidiary, GEMCO, lectured

at Cambridge University and consulted to the

Cambridge Commonwealth and Overseas Trusts.

Dr Longstaff was inaugural President of The

Australian Association for Professional & Applied

Ethics and is a Fellow of the World Economic

Forum. He is Chairman of Woolworths Limited

Corporate Responsibility Panel, AMP Capital

Socially Responsible Investment Advisory

Committee and the International Advisory Board

of the Genographic Project. Dr Longstaff serves

on the Australian Institute of Company Directors

Corporate Governance Committee, BHP Billiton

Forum on Corporate Responsibility, CSIRO Niche

Manufacturing Flagship Advisory Committee and

Nestle Oceania Creating Shared Value Advisory Board.

His book Hard Cases, Tough Choices was published

in 1997.

THE ETHICAL LEADER

Dr Simon LongstaffMC: COMMUNICATING CHANGE Mr Peter Thompson

Peter Thompson is passionate about broadcasting

and was the long running presenter of the Radio

National Breakfast Program and the current affairs

program, AM, on ABC Radio.

Peter loves journalism that involves both people

and ideas and for him, interviewing a guest on

Talking Heads is an opportunity to find out about

both the person and the social background that has

shaped them.

Away from journalism, Peter is a Professor and

Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand School of

Government where he teaches on communication,

leadership and social change issues. He’s also

an Adjunct Professor at Macquarie University’s

Department of International Communication.

Peter and his partner, Jane, have three kids. When

they get a breather they are pursuing a tree planting

project on a small farm in rural New South Wales.

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BEING THE CHANGE

Jacki Johnson

Chief Executive Officer, IAG New Zealand

Jacki Johnson was appointed Chief Executive Officer

of IAG’s New Zealand business in November 2010.

She is the current president of the Insurance Council

of New Zealand and also a director of Community

First Credit Union and a member of the Community

First Corporate Governance Committee.

Since joining IAG in 2001, Jacki has held several

senior positions in both direct and intermediated

insurance. Most recently she was chief executive

officer of the Group’s first dedicated online insurance

business, The Buzz. Prior to this, Jacki was chief

executive officer of business partnerships, managing

IAG’s risk management and safety services, New

South Wales and Victoria workers’ compensation

fee based businesses, affinity groups, motor dealers

and motor manufacturers insurance distribution

businesses. She has also led organisational

effectiveness and group strategy functions, and

managed the integration of IAG and CGU’s workers’

compensation business.

Jacki has more than 20 years’ experience in the

insurance industry and has held senior positions

with Allianz Insurance, HIH Insurance and IRS Total

Injury Management.

Jacki is a former director of the New South Wales

WorkCover Authority and the Personal Injury

Education Foundation.

THE CREATIVE LEADER Mr Patrick McIntyre

Executive Director, Sydney Theatre Company

Patrick McIntyre graduated from the University

of Technology Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts

(Communications). For twenty years, he has

worked extensively across the Australian arts

scene in managerial, marketing and business

development roles.

As General Manager of Sydney Theatre Company,

he works with the Board of directors and Artistic

Directors Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton in

leading and developing one of the world’s busiest

theatre organisations. Prior to joining Sydney

Theatre Company, he was Associate Executive

Director of The Australian Ballet. Other key

positions held include CEO of Sydney Film Festival

and Marketing Manager of Sydney Opera House

Trust and Sydney Dance Company.

In addition to his arts career, he has worked in the

community sector, for a dot com start up business

(briefly!)and has served on not-for-profit boards.

He is also a freelance writer, published in many

Australian magazines.

THE MINDFUL LEADER

Professor Mary Gentile

Director, Giving Voice to Values and Senior

Research Scholar at Babson College, USA

Mary C. Gentile, PhD is Director of Giving Voice

to Values and Senior Research Scholar at Babson

College; Senior Advisor, Aspen Institute Business

& Society Program; and independent consultant.

Previously, Mary Gentile was a faculty member and

manager of case research at Harvard Business School.

While at Harvard Business School (1985-95), Mary

Gentile was one of the principal architects of the

innovative educational program, Leadership, Ethics

and Corporate Responsibility. Gentile co-authored

Can Ethics Be Taught? Perspectives, Challenges,

and Approaches at Harvard Business School (with

Thomas R. Piper and Sharon Parks, Harvard Business

School Press, 1993, translated into Japanese and

Hungarian). She has written numerous publications,

articles cases and book reviews. Gentile holds a

bachelor’s degree from The College of William and

Mary (Williamsburg, VA) and an M.A. and Ph.D. from

the State University of New York at Buffalo.

LEADING CHANGE

Professor Jim Barber

University of New England’s Vice-Chancellor

and CEO.

Professor Barber is a distinguished academic. After

completing his PhD in experimental psychology,

his research shifted into the applied fields of drug

addiction and child welfare. His research record

includes minimal interventions in the secondary

prevention of drug addiction, and evidence-based

social policy and child welfare.

He is a winner of North America’s Pro Humanitate

Medal for his research in child welfare and a winner

of the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in

Teaching from Flinders University.

Professor Barber’s experience includes roles of

Company Director on a number of national bodies,

including Open Universities Australia (Australia’s

leading provider of fee-paying online degree

programs), Jesuit Social Services Australia and

Graduate Careers Australia.

Professor Barber has significant international

education experience, most significantly taking

on the additional role of interim President of RMIT

International University of Vietnam. He has worked

in regional universities and has a commitment to

their important contribution in providing access to

education, and also in driving economic prosperity

and enhancing the morale, culture and identity of

their regions.

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Blue Hole walkThe Oxley Wild Rivers National Park, part of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area, features rare dry rainforest, dramatic gorges and waterfalls, extensive wilderness areas, wild and scenic rivers and an amazing array of wildlife.

At the UNE Summer Retreat, we’ll BBQ breakfast by the creek and then take a contemplative guided ‘Experience the Highs’ walk. Change is all about looking from a different perspective. What better way to enhance the weekend than to immerse yourself the stunning New England High Country?

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