Our Faculty

At Chifley, our business and management principles are drawn from the industry experience and academic expertise of working professionals. Learn from experts in your field and through real-life scenarios based on contemporary and relevant industry experience.

A – I	J - R	S – Z
Anderson, Ray	Johnson, Mark	Stokes, Eric
Baker, Tim	Kunst, Martin	Suen, Bill
Barton, Geoff	Legge, John	Tapper, Craig
Foden, Stephen	Lyons, Tim	Taya, John
Griffin, Joseph Dr	Marshall, Al	Terziovski, Milé Dr
Hansen, Tor	Marshall, Robert	Walker, Greg Prof
	Meegan, Paula	White, Richard Dr
	Murphy, Tom
	Orr, Stuart Prof
	Pierce, Justin Dr

 

Ray Anderson

BEc, Dip Ed, MCom, Fellow of Chifley Business School

Ray is a consultant with FCG Legal Pty.Ltd, Solicitors, in the area of immigration law and practice. His previous position was Foundation Professor in Accounting and Finance at Victoria University, Melbourne. He has authored several books and monographs and he has published numerous articles in academic and professional journals, both domestically and internationally.

Ray has acted as a doctoral examiner and has also acted as an editorial board member for accounting journals. His current research is focused on biographies of eminent Australian accountants and international finance issues.

Unit Chair and Study Guide Author for:
Financial Management (Unit 101)

Tim Baker

BCom, DipHRM, MMgt, Master Mariner, FAICD

Tim Baker has his own consulting company. He advises organisations on developing and implementing corporate strategy, with an emphasis on gaining a competitive advantage through superior customer service. Tim designs and implements customer and employer perception surveys to help identify core strategic issues and mentors CEOs of small to medium-sized enterprises. Tim's experience includes positions as Chief Executive in technology-based organisations, including Moore Business Systems and OCE Australia Limited, and General Management positions in Rank Xerox Australia and International Computers Limited.

In these roles, he has gained many years’ experience in defining, developing and implementing strategic visions and missions with a focus on superior service delivery.

Unit Chair and Study Guide Author for:
Strategic Management in Services (Unit 410)

Geoff Barton

BEng(Elec & Mech), MBA, Fellow of Chifley Business School

Over a nearly thirty-year career, Geoff has had extensive experience in the management of high-risk projects in the defence, IT, financial and telecommunications industries. Working in government and corporate sectors, Geoff has first-hand experience of the challenges involved in contract acquisition, program and project management and managing operation and organisational change. Projects he has managed have ranged from missiles and remotely piloted vehicles, through to industrial controls and software development, to setting up companies.

Geoff is currently Managing Director of a small project management company located in Melbourne, Australia.

I want my students to understand the range of concepts, techniques, ideas and tools that will prove useful in their careers. I want to enthuse them to use this as the basis for their on-going skill development.

Unit Chair and Study Guide Author for:
Advanced Project Management (Unit 501)

Stephen Foden

BSc, GradDipMgt, MBA

Steve is a commercially savvy project/program director with an extensive track record within the banking, defence, telecommunications, government and gaming industries. Steve is highly effective at leading people in a strategic direction, having worked with stakeholders at all organisational levels.

He has undertaken projects that include strategic procurements, infrastructure implementations, application roll outs, marketing campaigns, organisational transformations, project performance reviews and project recoveries in US, European and Asian companies.

Unit Chair for:
Project Management (Unit 303)

Dr Joseph Griffin, DR

Ed.D; M. Ed; BSc (Hons), Dip of Trn. and Ass. Systems

Joe Griffin has 30 years experience in education and organisational development. His consulting company, CGM International, specialises in organisational development, leadership and risk management. Since its establishment, Joe has undertaken reviews for numerous private and government organisations, and over the last twenty years he has designed and conducted executive development programs in both public and private organisations in Australia, Asia and the Pacific.

Joe currently lectures through Victoria University for their Public Sector Management Program and lectures in New Venture Leadership for the Swinburne University Masters Program in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. He has also developed Human Resources Policies, that include performance management and professional development needs, and he has established a professional coaching service for executives.

Unit Chair for:
Leadership (Unit 430)

Tor Hansen

BA (Hons), LLB, Dip.Mod.Lang., Cert.IV.AWT

Tor Hansen is an experienced writer, researcher and corporate trainer. Tor has worked for Melbourne, Monash and La Trobe Universities to produce, lecture and assess many different undergraduate courses.

Tor is Director of TechKnowledgey Pty Ltd, a consultancy specialising in the provision of corporate training, communications and management consulting services. As a technical writer, Tor believes in producing documents that focus on the target audience, and on achieving outcomes.

Study Guide Author for:
Leadership (Unit 430)

Mark Johnson

MBA, B. Bus. Mgmt, AIMM

With over 22 years experience in HR Management and Organisational Development, Mark has worked with all levels of management from frontline/new supervisors to middle management and executive leaders. His personal style and skills have allowed him to achieve success in a broad cross section of industries including Finance & Insurance, Aerospace, Energy, Agribusiness and Construction Supply as well as Federal, State and Local Government.

In more recent years Mark's work has focused on organisational development, change management and coaching leaders in highly competitive and demanding environments. Mark has worked with and consulted to some of Australia's premier organisations including Suncorp, Wesfarmers Ltd and Price Waterhouse Coopers.

Unit Chair for:
Management Perspectives (Unit 102)

Martin Kunst

MBA, BBus & Economics

Martin is presently studying his Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) at Southern Cross University. A native of Germany, he has held various positions in marketing, consulting and accounting in some of Germany's largest corporations. He was also the Chief Financial Officer of a student-run stock association during his time at university and was a student employee at Haldex Brakesystems. As well as German and English, he speaks French and Spanish.

Unit Chair for:
Pathways to Organisational Best Practice (Unit 404)

John Legge

BS, MBus, Fellow of Chifley Business School

John Legge started tertiary level teaching after 28 years’ experience in technology-oriented business, including four years as a corporate business strategist for a multinational computer firm. His business career included extensive periods in the UK and Australia, and involved technical and marketing assignments in 9 other countries. Since 1988 John has concentrated on consulting, research, writing and teaching.

Nine of his books have been published, and he has completed a number of significant research papers. John was Lecturer in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Swinburne University between 1991 and 1996 and taught at RMIT Graduate School of Engineering in 1997 and in the Graduate School of Management, La Trobe University, from 1999 to 2002.

He is currently a Senior Teaching Fellow, Ballarat University and a Teaching Fellow, Swinburne University of Technology where he convenes the subject ‘Growth Venture Evaluation’ in the Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship. He is the principal consultant in his family consulting business.

I challenge my students to expand their capabilities as well as their learning—to gain confidence in their abilities to address and overcome the real business problems that they will meet as their careers develop.

Unit Chair and Study Guide Author for:
Business Planning for Innovation (Unit 304), Corporate Finance (Unit 406)

Published articles:
Reality bites when theory rules the roost

Tim Lyons

BBus (Marketing), M.Bus (Banking & Finance)

Tim has worked internationally as a lecturer in postgraduate management programs in France, China, Singapore, Vietnam and Hong Kong. He was Assistant Professor in Marketing at IESEG Business School, (Lille, France) and is now Assistant Professor at ISEG Business School (Paris, France). Tim has also lectured in marketing and international business courses throughout Australia—at Monash University, Latrobe University, RMIT and the Securities Institute of Australia in postgraduate, undergraduate and industry based programs.

Tim has extensive experience as a Senior Marketing Manager in Australia, Japan and the Philippines. He is currently completing his PhD in Marketing at the International School of Management in Paris and is Executive Director of Manage China, which has offices along the eastern seaboard of China. He currently resides in Hangzhou, China.

Unit Chair for:
International Business Strategy (Unit 407), e-Business Strategy (Unit 423)

Al Marshall

BA (Pol Sci. & Soc.) BA Hons (Intl Pol) MA (Intl Pol) Grad Dip (Mktg)

Al is a Lecturer in Marketing at the Australian Catholic University (ACU National). He previously lectured at the University of NSW. His specialist areas are international marketing, marketing communications and marketing research. He is the co-author of books on marketing communications and on international marketing due out on the market later this year.

He is also the principal of Brand Life, a consumer and business to business research and planning agency, which works with service marketers on branding, positioning, new products and marketing communications issues.

Al is a member of the Australian Marketing & Social Research Society, has QPMR (Qualified Practicing Market Researcher) accreditation and regularly presents at academic and industry conferences. His doctoral thesis is in consumer behaviour, and he is currently studying for a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education.

Unit Chair for:
Marketing (Unit 401)

Robert Marshall

BSc, MPubPol

Robert Marshall is a Director of Knowledge Teams International Pty Ltd. He specialises in executive coaching and the development teams and leaders. He designed the Knowledge Team Effectiveness Profiling System which is used by organisations throughout the world to increase their teams' effectiveness and creativity.

Before establishing Knowledge Teams International, Robert was the Group Manager, Leadership and Team Development with CSIRO with responsibility for the design, delivery and evaluation of professional and personal development programs for CSIRO's senior staff throughout Australia.

Robert has many years experience in designing and delivering a range of leadership courses in higher education having worked on programs offered by Melbourne and Deakin Universities. He has published extensively in the areas of leading and fostering creativity and innovation in teams.

Unit Chair for:
Leaders as Decision Makers (Unit 431)

Paula Meegan

LL.B, GDLP

Paula is the Practice Manager of the Adelaide Magistrate’s Court Legal Advice Clinic, established jointly by the University of Adelaide and Flinders University to provide law students with the opportunity to obtain legal education and experience in a clinical educational setting. She has also undertaken sessional teaching at the Law Schools of Flinders University and the University of South Australia.

Previously, Paula practiced in commercial litigation in firms in Adelaide and Sydney. For three years she practiced in Darwin at the Northern Territory Attorney General's Department, mainly in the area of civil litigation. Here she undertook training and education of public servants in various government departments in relation to the statutory regimes which those departments were responsible for administering. From 1997 to 2000 she was an in-house legal advisor for Angel Trains, London, an asset finance lessor of rolling stock. More recently she has practiced in the area of Local Government law in Adelaide.

Unit Chair and Study Guide Author for:
Business Law (Unit 202)

Tom Murphy

BEc. (Hons I) MSc. (Econ) Lancaster

Tom Murphy holds the degrees of Bachelor of Economics from the University of New England and Master of Science (Economics) from the University of Lancaster. He is currently Chief Executive Officer of the Western Research Institute (WRI). Tom previously held academic positions as senior lecturer in Economics and Director of the Regional Economics Research Unit in the Faculty of Commerce, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst and positions at the University of New England and Macquarie University.

He has also held the positions of Economic Analyst with the Office of National Assessments in Canberra, with responsibility for the ASEAN economies and Senior Consultant with KPMG Peat Marwick Management Consultants.

Unit Chair and Study Guide Author for:
Economic Decision Making (Unit 201)

Professor Stuart Orr

PhD, MEng/Sci, B Eng (Hons), Fellow of Chifley Business School

Prior to his current position as Professor in the Faculty of Business and Law at Deakin University, Stuart was the MBA Director at Deakin University, the Director of several graduate management degrees at Monash University and, before that, operated a management consulting firm. During this time, he worked with many of Australia's largest companies. He has also visited and held positions at a number of other leading universities within and outside Australia, including the universities of Cambridge and Munich.

Stuart's areas of teaching and research are strategic management, organisational behaviour and international management. He also regularly presents executive-level programs to industry. His research projects have been conducted in both the Australian and international contexts and he has published the results of his work widely in magazines, industry reports and refereed journal articles.

Unit Chair for:
Strategic Management (Unit 306)

Study Guide Author for:
Strategic Management (Unit 306)
International Business Strategy (Unit 407)

Publications and journals

Dr Justin Pierce

PhD, BInfoTech(Hons)

Justin D. Pierce is an early career academic working as a part time lecturer at the School of Information Systems and at the Institute for Koorie Education at Deakin University. His research interests include computer security, human-computer interaction, supply chain management and knowledge management.

Justin has worked in the private sector predominantly in the development of electronic commerce systems. His teaching interests include project management, systems analysis and design, electronic commerce, and computer programming.

Unit Chair and Study Guide Author for:
Managing Information Systems (Unit 403)

Eric Stokes

BCE, FIEAust, CPEng, Fellow of Chifley Business School

Eric has taught engineering design and management and is currently a visiting lecturer at La Trobe University. He gained extensive experience in course design and the development of teaching and research facilities whilst on the staff of RMIT where he was a Head of Department.

Eric is a past Honorary Treasurer of the Victorian Division of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, a past Chairman of the Division, a former member of the Accreditation Board of the Institution and a Past President of the Victorian Council of Professions. In 1996 he received the IEAust Victorian Division Chairman's Award for outstanding service.

Unit Chair and Study Guide Author for:
Management of Professional Services (Unit 307)

Bill Suen

BPharm, BHealth Administration, MBA, MPS

Bill is a graduate of The Victorian College of Pharmacy before obtaining other post graduate qualifications in management by part-time, off-campus learning. He has a wide range of senior management experience in both the public and the private sectors. Key pharmacy management positions held include General Manager (Slade Pharmacy and Medical Group), Director of Pharmacy Service (Western Health Care Network), Pharmacy Manager (Terry White Chemist, The Glen). Outside pharmacy, Bill has had corporate management experience as the General Manager of PJA Computer Consultants Pty Ltd, a leading pathology and clinical software company in Australia.

Bill has established and taught in postgraduate pharmacy management and pharmaceutical sales programs at Monash University. He is currently a Victorian councillor of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, a practising community pharmacy proprietor and the principal consultant of Pharmaceutical Business Solutions Pty Ltd.

Unit Chair and Study Guide Author for:
Pharmacy Practice and Planning (Unit 601)
The Australian Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Environment (Unit 602)

Craig Tapper

BA, MCom(Mkting), MBA, FAICD, AAMI, CPM, SIA (Aff)

Craig's career includes more than 20 years experience at senior levels in the public sector and private industry in both Australia and the UK. Since 1991 Craig has been a part-time lecturer in postgraduate programs in Business Planning, Marketing and Management at Sydney University, the University of Technology, Sydney, the University of NSW and the Australian Graduate School of Management in Australia and Hong Kong.

As well as teaching, Craig works as a consultant to major companies and government departments helping them carry out governance and management reviews, marketing strategy development and planning, market and social research and policy development.

Study Guide Author for:
Marketing (Unit 401)

John Taya

B.Buss, MIR, MACID

John is the Executive Director Organisational Development at Main Roads, Western Australia—an organisation that has won numerous awards for best practice in Human Resource Management and Strategy. He was previously the Executive Director Human Resources and has worked in this capacity in both the Public and Private Sectors in Australia and London. John has been instrumental in bringing human resource management to the executive table in the Western Australian Public Sector and in recent years (with the skills shortages facing industry) has focussed on how strategic human resources can drive organisational strategic planning.

John has written and published papers on Human Resource Management and has also lectured in the MBA programs at the Graduate School of Management at the University of Western Australia, and at the Graduate School of Business at Curtin University. He is a member of the UWA Civil Engineering Industry Advisory Panel and the Curtin University School of Management Advisory Board.

Unit Chair for:
Contemporary People Management (Unit 402)

Dr Milé Terziovski

BEng (Hons), MEng (Hons), Grad.Dip.Mgmt, MBA, PhD, MQSA, MAIM

Dr Milé Terziovski is an Associate Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Department of Management and Marketing at the University of Melbourne. He is also the Executive Director of the Centre for Global Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CGIE), (incorporating the Euro-Australian Cooperation Centre) at the University of Melbourne. Dr Terziovski worked as a professional engineer for Rio Tinto over a period of 17 years in production, maintenance and project management prior to obtaining his PhD from the Melbourne Business School. He worked at Monash University for a period of four years prior to returning to the University of Melbourne in 2000.

Dr Terziovski teaches innovation and entrepreneurship at postgraduate and undergraduate levels. He has published more than 50 articles in prestigious international refereed journals such as the Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Business Research and the European Journal of Operations Research (EJOR). Dr Terziovski chaired the Innovation and Entrepreneurship track at the European Academy of Management Conference (EURAM 2006). His latest book Building Innovation Capability in Organisations: An International Cross-case Perspective was published by the Imperial College Press in London in 2007.

I challenge my students to address the people, assets and costs issues through a variety of learning mechanisms in an integrative fashion.

Unit Chair and Study Guide Author for:
Operations Management (Unit 305)

Professor Greg Walker

BCom (Hons), Dip Ed, MCom, PhD

Greg is currently Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Business at Charles Sturt University. He recently retired from his formal positions as Head of Campus, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Business and Head of School of Marketing and Management following an extensive teaching and management career at CSU.

He has published in both journals and textbooks and has also worked as an economic consultant in both the public and private sectors. His research interests include banking and finance, macroeconomic policy, business and competition policy and regional economic development.

Unit Chair and Study Guide Author for:
Economic Decision Making (Unit 201)

Dr Richard White

BE, MEngSci, PhD

Richard is a Senior Lecturer at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Richard has worked in many industries: iron and steel, coal, pharmaceuticals, water and wool. He has worked on water supply and wastewater treatment projects in the UK, and as the Technical Manager in a leading wool scouring and carbonising company in Melbourne.

His teaching areas include environmental engineering, pollution control and engineering management systems (including audits and QMS/EMS). His additional research interests include reactor design and operation.

Unit Chair for:
Environmental Management (Unit 405), Engineering Risk Management (415)