Before becoming a Senior Lecturer at The University of Tasmania, I worked at a boutique Tasmanian change agency that assisted businesses with strategy, leadership, culture, and wellbeing for nearly a decade.

While in the field, I learned that every leader is a person first. It’s when the leader as a person opens up and enhances their own self-awareness, builds their personal accountability, and finds their inherent motivation to improve and grow, that true leadership development occurs.

My current research is focused on good leadership; how we can recognize it and how we can develop it.

I take a virtues-based approach to this work, which is grounded in the philosophy of virtue ethics. My work has been published in some of the top-tier, peer-reviewed academic leadership and management journals.

A lot of the work that goes on in leadership consulting has tenuous (at best) links to peer-reviewed research.

And a lot of the work that goes on in research has barely discernable implications for practicing leaders. 

I occupy the space between quality research and practical relevance, applying research-informed strategies to help good people become great leaders.