Effective Leadership and Leader Renewal

          Douglas Long: Re-Creating Leaders and Re-Creating Organisations

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"Leadership is the key .... but what is it really all about? I read lots of books and articles and hear lots of discussion about facilitative leadership, servant leadership, transformational leadership, leadership qualities, leadership skills, leadership styles, and all the rest. All it does is confuse me. What really are the essentials of leadership? What is effective leadership?"

I hold a PhD in Organisational Psychology.

Currently I have a Casual Academic post with Southern Cross University Graduate College of Management where I supervise DBA candidates. I also assess PhD, DBA, and Master's theses for universities in Australia and the USA. Previously I spent 3 years providing Executive Education at the Australian Graduate School of Management and for the 12 years preceding that  lead programs with Macquarie Graduate School of Management's executive education. During 1987 I was a visiting academic at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA.

Over the past 30 years I have been consulting on leadership and change issues to organisations in Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia. Major work in this time includes:

• Mentoring and coaching CEO's, Executives, and Managers at major Australian and international commercial and not-for-profit organisations
• Working with the Executive Team of a major property development company operating in both Australia and the USA
• Working with the Board and Executive Team at Ricegrowers Cooperative Ltd through the introduction of SAP and the associated re-engineering required.
• Working with the Board and Executive Team at Sydney Electricity in the process of changing from Sydney County Council to, eventually, Energy Australia
• Working with the Board and Executive Team of a major oil company to significantly increase its market share in Malaysia
• Conducting leadership development across South East Asia for a major USA-based  IT company

 My key note speaking on leadership, change and renewal includes:

• Personnel Management National Conference in New York
• IFTDO Regional Conference in Rio de Janeiro
• Human Resource Accounting Conference in Los Angeles
• Regional Training and Development Conference in Singapore
• Regional Training and Development Conference in Kuala Lumpur
• Regional Training and Development Conference in Rotorua
• Hewlett Packard Regional Conference in Singapore
• Toyota Dealers' Conference in Tokyo
• International Leadership Conference in Helsinki

Additionally I am a frequent speaker on leadership for various service organisations such as Rotary and Lions.