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Paul is a Consultant and Director of Emergent Futures Pty Ltd, a consulting company specialising in the use of foresight and emergent thinking on the creation and execution of strategy. www.emergentfutures.com
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Some of Paul's recent projects include:
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CEO, YMCA Victoria
Peter Burns is a central figure in YMCA Victoria’s growth from six branches in 1986 to over 150 today. In his 30-plus year career with the Y, Peter has enjoyed incarnations as a youth leader, swim teacher, lifeguard, aerobic instructor, camping leader, youth worker, community centre and aquatic centre manager, deputy chief executive, and director of the Australian YMCA Institute of Education and Training.
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Chief Executive since 2001, he has led the organisation’s transformation from management group to community development organisation, committed to ensuring enduring partnerships and equality of access for all to the Y’s programs and services.
He is Secretary of the Father’s Day Council of Victoria, Board member on The People & Parks Foundation, a member of The Rotary Club of Melbourne and is actively involved in local community life. Within the YMCA he is the Deputy Chair of the YMCA World Urban Network, a member of the National Strategic Management Group and contributor to several committees and taskforces. |
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CEO, Belgravia Leisure
Adrian Johnston has been an active member of the leisure industry for over 20 years managing his first Centre in 1990. Adrian has experienced the industry from all angles having been a Centre Manager, also a Council Officer responsible for in-house management, running his own leisure consultancy firm and most recently as Chief Executive Officer of Belgravia Leisure.
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Adrian is passionate about the development of our industry people and providing opportunity for personal and professional development. Adrian’s greatest desire is to have our industry achieve a profile which is consistent with the vital role it plays in bettering the lives of people throughout the world.
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Professor Carol Adams
Acting Dean, Faculty of Law and Management La Trobe University
Professor Adams qualified as an accountant with KPMG and has worked in the manufacturing sector as a financial controller and Company Secretary. She gained her MSc and PhD from the London School of Economics and the University of Glasgow.
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She joined La Trobe University in 2005 and is currently working as Professor of Accounting and Sustainable Development Strategy, Director of Sustainability for the University and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Law and Management. She is also an Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Adams is currently on the Advisory Group of the IFC (a member of the World Bank Group) and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) (www.globalreporting.org) joint global project to promote Gender and Sustainability Reporting. She served as a Board Director and Council Member of the Institute of Social and Ethical AccountAbility (AccountAbility) (www.accountability21.net).
Adams is Editor of the Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal. She has been awarded approximately $500K in competitive research grant funding and is one of the most read and cited authors world wide in the field of social and environmental accounting and sustainability reporting. She has conducted research/consultancy/advisory work in the field of sustainable development strategy, environmental management systems and sustainability reporting with companies in the UK, Germany and Australia; NGOs in the UK and Australia; and in the public sector in Australia. She has undertaken research in multi-national chemical and pharmaceutical companies, major banks, mining companies, manufacturing companies, the retail sector and utility companies. |
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Lynne Wannan
Director Victorian Government's Office for the Community Sector, Department of Planning and Community Development
Lynne Wannan is the Director of the Office for the Community Sector, Department of Planning and Community Development, Victoria.
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The Office for the Community Sector was established to strengthen Victoria’s not-for-profit community sector and is responsible for leading, coordinating and implementing the policy priorities affecting the not-for-profit sector across the whole of Victorian Government.
Lynne is one of Victoria’s most influential education and child care advocates and has a background as a policy analyst and manager in local and state government as well as the not-for-profit sector. Over the past two and a half decades Lynne has worked as a consultant and community leader chairing statutory authorities, government advisory bodies and not-for-profit sector advocacy organisations. She has been an adviser to government at local, state and national levels. Lynne is currently the Deputy Chair of Western Chances and is also a member of the Footscray Arts Centre and GoodStart Australia Boards.
In 2007, Lynne was awarded an Order of Australia for her leadership in community services and education. |
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Managing Director and Design Manager, Williams Ross Architects
B. Architecture, Auckland University, NZ 1986
Registered Architect, AIA Victorian Buildings Appeal Board Member, 1994 – 2000 RAIA. Victorian Chapter Councillor 1992 - 1994 Virginia has been a Director of Williams Ross for 18 years and leads the Pre-design, Master Planning and Conceptual Design services in the practice. She is recognised as a specialist in cultural and performing arts facility design. |
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Virginia has been involved in the planning and design of the majority of Williams Ross Architects many aquatic and sports centres with particular experience in functional analysis and facility design. She was the lead design architect for the Monash Aquatic Recreation Centre.
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Director, Williams Ross Architects
B. Planning and Design,
B. Architecture (Hons), University of Melbourne, 1992 Registered Architect, AIA Gray has been a Director of Williams Ross Architects, and previously senior Project Architect, since 1997 and led the design team on many of our most complex projects. He has developed expertise in sports and aquatic facility design, and toured aquatic recreation parks in the USA in 2008. |
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Gray is a master of technical and building construction detail and led our project teams for the Monash Aquatic Recreation Centre, and more recently the new headquarters and elite sports training facilities for North Melbourne and Carlton AFL Football Clubs.
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Senior Associate (Corporate Advisory), Lander & Rogers Lawyers (VIC)
Amelia has broad experience in commercial, financial and administrative matters. She has developed a specialist practice in sports law and offers strong expertise in the application of the law to not-for-profit organisations, for-profit companies and government agencies.
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Amelia's areas of expertise include:
Amelia's significant matters include:
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Coffey Commercial Advisory
Warren’s extensive experience has cemented his
reputation as one of the country’s most successful and knowledgeable operators within the industry. In his time with Coffey Commercial Advisory, Warren has undertaken a multitude of professional development initiatives to further qualify himself as one of Australia’s most highly sought after consultants in the sport and leisure industry. |
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Warren’s expertise and extensive sport and leisure industry knowledge has assisted many clients in preparing, creating and implementing detailed strategic plans and annual business plans with a commercial operational focus that have assisted in
increasing levels of profitability, patronage,membership and service quality. His understanding and appreciation for management models, commercial operations, including contract negotiation and contract management, as well as the Warren Green has over 20 years of successful management of Major Sport and Leisure Facilities in Melbourne. This experience was gained through previous roles including:
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Practice Design Manager, Suter Architects
Mark van den Enden is a practising architect and urban designer. He has worked in Australia, the Netherlands and the Middle East and completed an MA in Urban Design in 2001 at RMIT. |
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In his role as Practice Design Manager at Suters Architects he oversees a practice-wide management strategy that fosters a broad congregation of approaches. His current recreation projects include the redevelopment of Punt Road for the Richmond Football Club, the Homebush Tennis Centre in Sydney and Kyneton Aquatic Centre, while completed projects include Maribyrnong Sporting Centre of Excellence and the award winning Caroline Springs Stadium.
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Team Leader - Contract Manager Leisure Facilities, City of Whittlesea
Sarah Loh has a Masters Degree In Sports Business from Victoria University. She is an experienced Manager in the private sector of recreation and fitness facilities throughout Victoria since 1988.
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Sarah has been working for City of Whittlesea for 4.5 years as the Contract Manager of the Major Leisure Facilities. Sarah in conjunction with Henderson and Lodge (architects) designed the Thomastown Recreation and Aquatic Centre (TRAC). Sarah's leisure centre management experience of over 20 years has prepared her for the unique design of TRAC with sustainable design elements, accessibility outcomes and operator and customer satisfaction.
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Director, space2develop
Creative Engineering Solutions
Two decades of setting the strategy, managing and leading projects in food, pharmaceutical, agribusiness and health sectors have formed a resource with a unique outlook and style. Peter is the Founder of Space 2 Develop. A creative and progressive engineering firm that deals with all aspects of operational activity, especially the area of energy and resource utilization.
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Formerly Industrial Business Unit Manager Bovis Lend Lease, Business Development Manager Lend Lease, Senior Project Manager Lend Lease Projects, various other leadership roles in Engineering, Project Management and Product Development
Space 2 Develop - Firm Founder Servicing Australia’s leading companies with strategic analysis on improving operational costs through identifying opportunities in all areas of manufacturing, distribution, energy usage, resource recovery and defining internal and external distribution networks. Roles on projects ranging from $1m to $2 billion with: PPP Projects – Bilfinger Berger/Royal Bank of Scotland, COSTA Group, Murray Goulburn Cooperative, Major Project Victoria, MABCORP, Bovis Lend Lease, Thiess, Baulderstone, Flextank , Food Spectrum, QANTAS, Nestle, Fonterra/Bonlac, Cadbury Schweppes, Fosters Brewing Group, Parmalat Australia, Food Spectrum, AMCOR, VISY, Sigma Pharmaceuticals, Golden Circle, Electrolux, TetraPak, ABN AMRO, Ventracor , Betta Foods Education
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Doug Weller
Director, Corporate Media Services Doug’s career in journalism and media spans 35 years. He began in commercial radio in Queensland, later holding positions as a radio journalist in Brisbane and Sydney. For a period of 12 years, he was employed as a journalist by ABC radio and television. |
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In 1990, he was appointed to the position of ABC Washington Correspondent. During that time he covered events such as the Gulf War and the dismantling of the Soviet Union.
In 1992 came a move to Canberra and the position of Political Reporter in the Canberra Press Gallery, then a transfer to Melbourne to anchor a national morning news and current affairs program.
Other positions held at the ABC include Editor, Chief of Staff and Executive Producer. Doug has also lectured in Journalism at RMIT University.
He has conducted more than 1000 presentations on the media. He has also designed and presented a range of advanced media training programs for journalists from Indonesia, Vietnam and China.
He is now Director of Corporate Media Services Pty Ltd.
His company specialises in training people on how to use the media as a promotional tool and also how to deal with the media in a crisis.
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Alfred Deakin Professor of Population Health, and Director of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention, Deakin University and Co-Chair of the International Obesity Taskforce (IOTF)
Boyd Swinburn is the Alfred Deakin Professor of Population Health and Director of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention at Deakin University in Melbourne.
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He trained as a specialist endocrinologist in Auckland and his research career began with metabolic and clinical studies at the National Institutes of Health in Phoenix, Arizona and at the University of Auckland.
He was the Medical Director of the National Heart Foundation in New Zealand from 1993-2000. His major research interest at Deakin University is centred on obesity prevention, particularly in children and adolescents, and efforts to reduce, what he has coined, the ‘obesogenic’ environment. He has developed and supported a number of community-based demonstration projects in the Barwon-South West region of Victoria and these are linked to similar projects in Melbourne, Auckland, Fiji, and Tonga.
He was President of the Australasian Society for the Study of Obesity (ASSO) from 2005-7 and has been a Steering Group member of the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) since 1997 and co-chair since 2009. He has also contributed as an Expert Advisor to WHO on obesity at 15 WHO Consultations around the world since 1998. Through these efforts and his many publications and presentations, he is significantly contributing to national and global efforts to reduce the obesity epidemic.
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General Manager, Capital Projects, Victorian Government's Department of Sustainability and Environment
Peter Sammut joined the department in May 2007 from the Southern and Eastern Integrated Transport Authority where he held the position of Director Engineering and Operations on the EastLink project. As the General Manager of the Capital Projects Division (CPD) of DSE, Peter is responsible for the delivery of the Victorian Desalination Project on behalf of the department, which is Victoria's largest Public Private Partnership (PPP) Project.
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While the principal responsibility of the Capital Projects Division is the Victorian Desalination Project, CPD has been responsible for the preparation of business cases for major water recycling options under the Victorian Water Plan, as well as assisting other Divisions and organisations with the delivery of their projects.
Peter was previously with the Department of Infrastructure where he worked as the Project Director for the Scoresby Integrated Transport Corridor Project (which later transitioned to become the Mitcham Frankston Freeway Project and then the EastLink Project). This commenced with the first PPP Business Case for a road project under the Government's Partnerships Victoria Policy. Prior to that, he worked for VicRoads in the Major Projects Division where he was the Project Director on the Geelong Road Project, as well as having served in various corporate and business roles, including in external organisational restructures. Between DSE, SEITA, DOI and VicRoads, Peter has over 27 years of experience on major project development and delivery on some of Victoria's most complex projects, under both PPP and state delivery models.
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Director, @leisure
Sally is a director of @leisure, a widely acclaimed consultancy firm specialising in strategic planning, and the design of sports and leisure facilities.
Sally has recreation planning and marketing qualifications, and has worked in state, local government and private practice over 30 years. |
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Sally has worked extensively with a wide range of sports organisations and Councils to prepare strategic plans, and facility and feasibility studies.
In recent years a considerable number projects prepared have be related to including target groups including adolescents, women, older adults and people with a disability.
Sally has been engaged by the state government to prepare guidelines of the provision of play facilities to include people with a disability, and has been a member of the Australian Standards sub committee charged with preparing the Access and Mobility Standard pt 7. This deals with aquatic facilities. She has been recognised for her contributions to the leisure and play industries by life membership to both the Park and Leisure Australia, and the Playgrounds and Recreation Association of Victoria. |
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Consultant, Eye Fitness
Educated at prestigious University of Otago in NZ with a BPhEd; double major in Exercise Prescription/Management and Professional Studies (Coaching/Outdoor education/Leisure Management). David has been in the fitness, physical education and sport industry for 15 years and is deeply passionate at helping the greater population find lifestyle balance and health through exercise.
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David’s experience includes corporate health, health club management, Personal Training, coaching and training athletes young and old. In 2006 he set up two award winning express health studios for the de-conditioned/uninitiated public, proving his theory that facilities need not offer traditional facilities and services to specifically target the market and make a difference to the wider community.
These experiences have provided a broad incite to the education and fitness industries need, for programs that deliver to a greater population and provide the development of exercise as a lifelong habit. David now shares his knowledge and experience through speaking, writing and his role at EYE Fitness (Excite Your Environment). EYE fitness imports, sells and trains users, businesses and schools on the benefits of innovative exercise equipment, education and exergaming products to enhance adherence, participation, enjoyment and connection to the benefits of exercise. David has sourced the majority of the products offered by EYE fitness for the simple reason - they work, and make a difference for users and business/schools. The products and suppliers EYE represents service over 2000 schools in the US/UK with this new approach to exercise, PE and fitness. |
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Sales and Marketing Director, Ezypay
Celeste is the Sales and Marketing Director of Ezypay, Australia and New Zealand’s first direct debit provider and multi-award award-winning company. Ezypay provides billing solutions to all types of businesses across Australia and New Zealand. Celeste has played an integral part in Ezypay’s success by leading service and product innovations and launching Ezypay into New Zealand.
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With a background in direct marketing, telemarketing and business-to-business sales, she has a Masters in Law and Legal Practice, has previously been a board member of Fitness NSW and the President of Women in Finance. Celeste is passionate about delivering customer satisfaction and business growth through innovation, both for her clients and Ezypay shareholders.
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Marketing Manager, Ezypay
Simon is the Marketing Manager at Ezypay the fitness industry’s largest direct debit provider and publisher of the Australian Fitness Industry Survey. He has over 20 year’s fitness industry experience having worked in the UK, New Zealand and Australia.
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Simon has extensive experience at all levels of club operations and management spending 7 years at the YMCA as the General Manager for Fitness in Auckland and Sydney. Simon has also contributed to Fitness New Zealand as the elected Chairman for a number of years. Simon has previously presented at FILEX, NZRA, YMCA World Urban Alliance and many other conferences.
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CEO, Leading Teams Australia
Garie started his working life as a School Teacher then continued to have a varied business career that has included Senior Management roles with Port Adelaide Football Club, Optus, Kelly Services (a global recruitment company) and VIP Homes Services.
Garie has also had a senior soccer career that has spanned 15 years in Adelaide where he has been part of the local sports media. He has a passion for organisational development and supporting organisations in their efforts to maximise the potential of their people.
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Garie has a Bachelor of Education, Graduate Diploma of Teaching and a Graduate Diploma in Business.
Outside of work Garie volunteers with the Julian Burton Burns Trust, a not-for-profit organization, to help raise awareness, education and funds to support people with burns.
Garie lives in Adelaide and has two children, Alexander and Sophie. |
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CEO, Manukau Leisure Services Limited, NZ
This company employs over 400 staff and operates the following services:
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Brett has been in the recreation industry in New Zealand for over 20 years and started as a seasonal lifeguard. Brett has been recognised for his services to recreation industry in New Zealand, in particular for his services to the swimming pool sector.
His qualifications are a post graduate diploma from the Mt Eliza Business School and currently completing an MBA through the University of Melbourne.
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Brett Spencer
Manager Recreation & Leisure Services, City of Stirling, WA Brett has been involved in local government for over 30 years inclusive of a brief 3 year stint in State Government at the Department of Sport and Recreation in Western Australia. A professional sports person in his earlier years Brett thought a career in the Leisure Industry was a natural progression and his first job was as a pool lifeguard and Council gardener.
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Over the time Brett has held most local government positions from Public Toilet Cleaner to Chief Executive Officer.
Brett is currently the Manager of Recreation and Leisure Services with the City of Stirling, Western Australia’s largest Local Authority, and has been in this role for 7 ½ years his longest ever job. Stirling is a very diverse community in terms of social demographic and it has a vast history of ethnic and migratory populations.
Brett is responsible for a staff of over 300 people and large annual budget of almost $20million but he suggests that his key role is to develop people, professionals and future industry leaders.
His passion and special interest areas as a professional are Public Open Space, Sustainability and Leisure as a Social Solution…..Today Brett will discuss with us a new and innovative sport and recreational program that has been running in the City of Stirling for 4 years now that has been highly successful in bringing new and emerging community members into mainstream clubs and groups and providing
“More Than Just a Sporting Opportunity”
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