Senior Strategic Leadership 2010
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The Senior Strategic Leadership program is an intensive residential program that focuses on the challenge of establishing strategic direction and implementing strategic plans in the current dynamic tertiary education environment. It is designed for tertiary leaders with significant line management and/or portfolio responsibilities and those planning to move into such roles. Particular emphasis is placed on the opportunities and challenges posed by the current policy environment.
The program will draw on some of the most senior and dynamic leaders in the tertiary sector as well as political leaders, senior policy advisers and analysts. In past programs participants have had the opportunity to actively engage with presenters including Emeritus Professor John Hay, VC University of Queensland 1996-2008 and Professor Michael Gibbons, SPRU, Sussex University (as Mentor-in-residence); Professor Denise Bradley, author of the Review of Australian Higher Education; Professor Glyn Davis, VC University of Melbourne; Professor Sally Walker VC Deakin University; Emeritus Professor Bill Massy, Professor Emeritus of Education and Business Administration Stanford University; and Professor Sue Richardson, National Institute of Labour Studies, Flinders University.
Who should attend?
This program is ideal for experienced line managers who may be considering moving to a portfolio or university wide administrative role. All participants will have had experience in setting strategic direction, managing staff, including responsibility for performance management, and substantial budget responsibility.
Delivery mode
5 days residential
Dates and Location
15 - 19 November 2010, Canberra
The 2010 schedule will be available closer to the program however you can download 2009 Program now.
Course Leaders
Professor Sharon Bell
Professor Sharon Bell is the Senior Programs Designer at the LH Martin Institute. Her entire academic career has been in senior
leadership positions. Having completed a PhD in Anthropology at the University of Sydney and worked as an ethnographic filmmaker she entered the tertiary education sector as Head of the Fulltime Program and Head of Studies at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (1990-1994).
From there she went onto the University of Wollongong as Dean of the Faculty of Creative Arts (1994-2001) and Dean of the Faculty of Arts (2001-2003). Sharon assumed the role of Pro-Vice Chancellor (Equity and Community Partnerships) at Griffith University in 2003 where she was also responsible, as Provost, for the University’s Logan Campus. She became Deputy Vice Chancellor at the University of Canberra in 2006.
Professor Margaret Seares, AO
Margaret Seares holds a PhD from UWA in Music, her field of specialty being the keyboard music of the 18th century. From 1991-
1995 she was Head of the School of Music, and Deputy Chair of the
Academic Board at UWA.
In 1995 she accepted a two-year secondment to the position of CEO with the West Australian Department for the Arts (now the Ministry for Culture & the Arts). And in 1997 she was appointed to a 4-year term as Chair of the Australia Council. She has been a member of a wide range of Boards and Councils in the government, not-for-profit, and arts sectors and is currently a board member of the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, a Councillor with the WA Chamber of Commerce & Industry and with Scotch College WA, a member of the Australian Research Council’s advisory council, and a member of the board of the Council for
the Humanities Arts & Social Sciences, and retired from her role as Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Western
Australia in December 2008.
In 2003 Professor Seares was awarded the Officer of the Order of Australia in recognition of her work for the arts and education.