Executive Leadership Team
Victoria Wilding
As Chief Executive Officer/President, Victoria leads the strategic direction, organizational development, fundraising and partnership development for the SHIFT Foundation. She brings over 25 years experience as a senior executive, working across the corporate, government, and community sectors in Australia and around the world. She has held roles as Regional and National Sales Manager for Hayes, Epson and Memorex and as CEO of The Australian Humanitarian Foundation. She has established a successful boutique management consulting firm, offering leadership training and advisory services to CEOs, Boards of Directors and senior executives of global firms including Shell, Kodak, Telstra and the State and Federal Government. Victoria has built a strong reputation as a natural leader, mentor and facilitator.
Email: victoria@shiftfoundation.org
Michael Shaw
As Chairman of the Board, Michael provides leadership to the Board of Directors of the SHIFT Foundation. Michael helps guide and mediate Board actions with respect to organizational priorities and corporate governance issues. He monitors financial planning and reporting, and facilitates the Board's role in strategic planning and achievement of the organization's vision and mission. Michael has 16 years board experience both as Chair and board member in over 7 organizations from both the private and not-for-profit sectors. This included serving from 1999 to 2002 as National President of Relationships Australia Inc., Australia's largest couple counselling and and mediation service with over 90 offices and 800 staff. He is Principal of Bristow Shaw & Company, an investment banking firm established in1990, with particular specialization in Private Equity and Venture Capital funding. Prior to establishing Bristow, Shaw & Company, Michael was an Associate Director in the corporate area of McIntosh Securities Limited, Manager Corporate Banking of Boston Australia Limited, and Bank Representative ( New Zealand ) of The First National Bank of Boston.
Senior Consultants
Throughout 2006, the Executive Leadership Team has worked closely with a number of key senior external consultants from Australia , Europe and North America.
Barrett Chapman Brown
Barrett C. Brown has played a key role in developing documentation which effectively communicates the SHIFT Foundation's initiatives and programs to diverse stakeholders. Barrett is a Senior Consultant with Stagen Consulting. He also serves as the Co-Director of Integral University's Integral Sustainability Centre, which applies Integral Theory to sustainable development issues. Since 2005, he has led or consulted to organizations throughout the Americas in the areas of sustainability, human development, and communications. He has completed advanced certification programs in Spiral Dynamics and ZERI (Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives), is on the advisory board of IntegralCity.com, and is the United Nations representative for the journal Kosmos: An Integral Approach to Global Awakening. His Ph.D. studies in Human and Organizational Systems at Fielding Graduate University focus on the customization of sustainability initiatives to the developmental levels of all major stakeholders and systems involved. In addition to consulting and research, Barrett also co-designs and delivers workshops on Integral Theory and Practice for Integral Institute. Barrett has presented and trained widely, including at the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development and the School for International Training.
Susanne Cook-Greuter
Dr. Susanne Cook-Greuter has played a key role in applying academic rigor and critical guidance to the development of SHIFT's initiatives, programs and publications. Susanne is the principal of Cook-Greuter & Associates and a founding member of Ken Wilber's Integral Institute in Boulder , Colorado . Susanne is a co-director of its Psychology Center and a contributor to the Business Practice Branch. She co-facilitates in the Integral Institute Leadership and Psychotherapy seminars. Susanne's work is heavily referenced by Ken Wilber in many of his works pointing to the sophisticated development of the instrument Susanne created. Susanne coaches and consults to various organizations and projects in research design and the use of developmental frameworks. Susanne has a doctorate from Harvard University and is an internationally known authority on adult development. Susanne worked closely with Robert Kegan, while she developed her own thesis, “Post-autonomous Ego Development”, a landmark study in the characteristics and assessment of highly developed and influential individuals and leaders. She has co-authored two books with Mel Miller titled “Mature Adult Development, Creativity and Spirituality”. The Leadership Development Framework refines and expands Loevinger's Ego Development Theory. It integrates Bill Torbert's model of Personal and Organizational Transformation and Developmental Action Inquiry with Susanne Cook-Greuter's extensive, ongoing research in Mature Adult Development and linguistic assessment of self-awareness and personal mastery.
Belinda D'Souza
Belinda is the financial accountant of the SHIFT Foundation overseeing the preparation of Statutory Accounts in compliance with Australian Accounting Standards and liaising with external Auditors as required. Belinda is a Chartered Accountant. She is the Senior Financial Analyst, Forecasting and Management Reporting, for BHP Billiton, leading the Executive Committee and month end reporting for the group. She has also led the implementation of financial, process and systems related changes throughout the global organization. Belinda brings to the Foundation 14 years of corporate experience, also gained from her role as Audit Manager with KPMG, consultant with the BBC ( London ), and business analyst with Diageo /Guinness UDV ( London ). Belinda has worked and /or traveled in Africa, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, South America and throughout Australia , having a keen interest in international community, values and culture.
Michael Margolis
As the CEO and founder of THIRSTY-FISH Story Marketing, Michael has worked with SHIFT around the organization's overall brand story development, articulation and positioning. Michael is an experienced social entrepreneur working at the intersections of branding, anthropology, and organizational change. Founding THIRSTY-FISH in 2002, Michael has helped shape the larger story of more than 30 clients including AARP, Ernst & Young LLP, NASA, The Nature Conservancy, and dozens of professional service firms and emerging enterprises. An outspoken proponent of the Talent Economy, Michael's work has been recognized by Fast Company Magazine, Silicon Alley Reporter, Harvard Business School , Department of Commerce, and National Public Radio. Previously, he helped launch two groundbreaking nonprofits in the fields of technology, corporate philanthropy, and workforce development. In 2001, Michael was recognized, by the American Society for Training & Development's T&D Magazine, as one of “Training's New Guard” for the new millennium. He is also a contributing author to the newly released book “Wake me Up When the Date is Over: How Organizations Use Stories to Drive Results”.
Ash Nallawalla
Ash Nallawalla is instrumental in guiding SHIFT into the Web 2.0 world ensuring that our message will successfully reach our target online audience. Currently the CEO of trainSEM.com, Ash has a long history with major global Internet companies including Melbourne IT, Macromedia and Selectica. He has held senior positions with both national and global nonprofit computer user groups where he has been responsible for driving the strategic direction and training and support needs of these major volunteer organizations. Over the past 25 years, Ash has earned considerable recognition in the information technology industry as a reputable commentator on emerging trends. His ideas have been published in newspapers and magazines such as The Age, Australian Financial Review, Computerworld, PC Week and others.
Project Development Partners
Our Horizon 1 Projects - the Global Leadership Program, the Global Leadership Innovation Laboratory and the Annual Young Global Leaders Survey - have been developed in partnership with a number of “thought leaders” and institutions from around the world:
Avastone Consulting
Avastone Consulting (Avastone) is an Atlanta-based organizational consulting firm that supports a diverse and strong client base located throughout the southeastern US, across North America, and internationally. For 20 years, the firm has assisted clients in shaping and realizing strategic intent through processes geared to illuminating possibilities, building capabilities, and delivering tangible impact. Avastone supports clients with a closely-coupled array of service areas, each of which is geared to meeting clients “where they are” and getting them “where they want to go.” Those service areas include: executive and leadership development; organizational development and change; sustainability and leadership; and direct learning experiences. The Avastone team has worked with the SHIFT Foundation in the development of the Global Leadership Program and the Annual Young Global Leaders Survey.
• Jon Schmidt, CEO/President
• Cynthia Mc Ewen, Senior Consultant
Generon Consulting
Generon represents a new breed of international consulting firm. They address the most vital challenges facing organizations and societies by creating breakthrough, system-shifting innovations through the transformation of individual and collective patterns of seeing, thinking, and acting. Generon helps leaders of companies, governments, and civil society organizations to create better futures. Generon has co-developed a social technology for addressing highly complex challenges. The U-Process is an innovation process, a theory, a set of practices, and a language for producing extraordinary breakthroughs. They have developed the U-Process in collaboration with Otto Scharmer and with contributions from other remarkable individuals such as Brian Arthur, Betty Sue Flowers, and Peter Senge. In conducting the underlying action research, they also benefited from partnerships with organizations such as Shell Oil Company, McKinsey & Company, the Society for Organizational Learning, and the United Nations Development Programme. It represents the best theory and practice from 20 years of organizational learning, management consulting, leadership development, scenario planning, and multi-stakeholder problem solving. The Generon team has worked with the SHIFT Foundation in the development of the Global Leadership Innovation Laboratory.
• Mille Bojer, Associate
• Zaid Hassan, Generon Learning
• Joseph Jaworski, Chairman/Director
• Adam Kahane, Director, Generon Public Service
• Grady McGonagill, Director, Generon Learning
Cook-Greuter & Associates
Cook-Greuter and Associates is led by principal, Dr. Susanne R. Cook-Greuter. The goal of CGA is to bring the benefits of ego-development theory to organizational behavior and leadership. CGA's offices are located in the Boston area. Susanne Cook-Greuter works with other consultancies to create programs that are tailored to organizations' needs and result in optimal client support and offerings. She collaborates with consultants in the USA, Australia, Germany, France and England. CGA has worked with the SHIFT Foundation in the development of the Global Leadership Program and the Annual Young Global Leaders Survey.
• Dr Susanne Cook-Greuter, Principal
Price Waterhouse Coopers
Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC) is one of the leading international providers of market and attitude research. Established more than 15 years ago, PWC's International Survey Unit (ISU) has provided specialist market research to national and international clients and to the core business of the PWC global network. A core team of 40 research consultants manage specific areas of expertise ranging from statistical analysis, questionnaire design and sampling techniques, to sectoral expertise such as public services and customer satisfaction research. ISU research consultants are supported by an extensive, full-time field force of interviewers and a team of multi-lingual executive researchers. The ISU team has worked with the SHIFT Foundation in the development of the Annual Young Global Leaders Survey.
• Julie McClean, Consultant Research Strategy & Policy Group
• Geraldine O'Connor, Manager, PWC Global CEO Survey
Stagen
Stagen is a management consulting firm that specializes in helping high growth companies solve complex problems and fundamentally enhance business performance. With a focus on strategy, execution and leadership development, Stagen partners with clients to tap the potential of their human and organizational capital to create next-level results. The Stagen methodology integrates management theory from the world's leading universities and think tanks with high performance techniques extracted from elite athletics, military Special Forces and developmental psychology. The institute collaborates with leading academics, researchers, subject-matter experts and a world class faculty to deliver a transformational experience that catapults leaders to the "next level" in their professional and personal lives. The Stagen team has worked with the SHIFT Foundation in the development of the Global Leadership Program.
• Rand Stagen, Founder/Senior Partner
• Barrett Chapman Brown, Senior Consultant
The Leadership Circle
The Leadership Circle is a leadership development company offering breakthrough tools and support technologies to Human Resource and OD professionals , as well as independent consultants and coaches for use with their client organizations. The Leadership Circle team has worked with the SHIFT Foundation in the development of the Annual Young Global Leaders Survey.
• Bob Anderson, Founder/CEO