“Thanks again for your skilful leadership at our EMT conference last week.

There was unanimous agreement that it ranked as the ‘the best ever'.”

Fred Hilmer, CEO, John Fairfax Holdings Ltd

"Just a short note of appreciation for your very significant part of what I believe was the best Unity Conference from a business perspective that we had ever held.

A mark of success is that a week on, your sessions are being talked about not only by those who were fortunate enough to attend but by their colleagues back in the trenches for whom we will give the opportunity to participate in some of the models as they affect the business".

Russell Hewitt
CEO
ComputerLand NZ Ltd

Dr Roger Collins is Professor Emeritus at the University of NSW and Chairman of the Board of Grant Thornton Australia.  Roger also serves on the Board of the Australian Institute of Management (NSW & ACT). His academic career is complemented by earlier experience in the private sector, the armed services, the public sector and in tertiary education.

Professor Collins has degrees from the University of New South Wales (in applied psychology), and from Macquarie University (in management).  His current interests include:

• the frontiers of leadership and executive development
• how to link an organisation's HR practices to its strategy in ways that offer competitive advantage and higher performance
• organisational renewal and change that can sustain and organisation’s success;
• and factors influencing career and life success.

Roger has a special interest in the application of the Positive Psychology to organizational contexts. He has co-authored and edited a number of books, including Australia's best selling text "Management in Australia" and recently held visiting appointments at Cambridge University and the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad.

Professor Collins’ consulting practice is in four areas: working with CEOs and executive teams on the formulation and implementation of strategy, enhancing the performance of executive teams, assisting managers to develop plans and skills for the strategic management of their workforce, and developing the contribution of the human resource function. 

His experience spans the private sector in professional service organisations, utilities and the financial services, high technology, airline, computer, mining, manufacturing and communications industries.

His clients include Westfield, BHP Billiton, Newcrest Mining, Baxter Capgemini, Henry Schein, News Limited, Oracle, Rio Tinto, Saudi Aramco, Stockland, Cadbury, Thales, Gadens, Dupont, Wesfarmers, Ovations Celebrity Speakers and Inenco. He is a member of the American Academy of Management and was the inaugural Chairman of the judging panels for both Australia's and Asia’s Best Employers’ awards from 1998 until 2010.

Roger Collins is a regular contributor to national and international management conferences and is a  faculty member on a number of Australian and Asian executive development programs. For the past 25 years he has directed the region’s most successful strategic HR executive programs in Australia and New Zealand. 

These programs have attracted managers and HR professionals from a diverse range of organisations in Australia, New Zealand and Asia.  The programs are widely recognised as a major influence on people management practices in many leading organisations.  He has twice received the Alumni prize for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching at AGSM and was awarded the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence.

In January 2004 he was appointed as a Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia for his services to teaching and was awarded the Australian Human Resources Award for Career Long Achievement in HR in 2005.

As an outlet to and application of his professional activities, he is involved in raising beef on a property at Gerringong.

Dr Roger Collins

Mobile: 0408 276 430

Email: rogerrcollins@gmail.com