Conference Keynotes

Conference Keynote Presentations

2021 Conference (Presentations will be available shortly)

• KEYNOTE 1   Leadership in a Changing World

Graham Kerr, CEO South32

•  KEYNOTE 2   Mental Health in the Workplace

Andrew Noblet, Professor Deakin Business School
Kym Pfitzner, CEO Australian Red Cross
Linda Hunt, Working Well in Wellington Project Manager, Wellington Primary Care Partnership
Colin Radford, CEO WorkSafe Victoria Facilitator
Amanda Pyman, Dean Deakin Business School

• KEYNOTE 3   Leading and Strategizing for a Changing World

Niall Martin, Quality and Safety Liaison Manager Air New Zealand
Lester Levy, Professor Auckland University of Technology
Joy Walpole-Leva’a, Solicitor/Advocate NZALPA and President, National Council of Women of New Zealand
Rhonda Kite, CEO Kiwa Media Group Facilitator
Ceinwen McNeil, CEO BVT Engineering

2019 Conference

• Spotlight on Learning and Teaching – Addressing the Wicked Problem of Indigenizing the Curriculum
• ANZAM Plenary Panel Session – Wicked Problems in Management Practice – a Practitioner Panel
• Wicked problems (and solutions?) in Management Research, Professor Chris Brewster, Professor of International Human Resource Management, Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK (PDF)
• Collaborative Futures in Complex Times, Professor Helen Sullivan, Director of the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University (PDF)

2018 Conference

• No Fishy Business, Mr Volker Kuntzsch, Chief Executive Officer, Sanford (PDF)
• Untitled, Mrs Cecilia Robinson, Founder & Director, My Food Bag (PDF)
• The Doubled Edge Sword of Doubt, Professor Andre Spicer, Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Cass Business School (PDF)

2017 Conference

• Grand Challenges in Management Research: Creating knowledge that solves real organizational and societal problems, Professor Gerry George, Dean and Lee Kong Chian Chair Professor, Singapore Management University (PowerPoint)
• Redesigning Work Design Research and Theory: New Directions,  Professor Sharon K Parker, Centre for Transformative Work Design, University of Western Australia (PowerPoint)

2016 Conference

• Harbingers of Change in Management Scholarship, Professor Mary Uhl-Bien, BNSF Railway Endowed Professor of Leadership, Professor of Management, Neeley School of Business, Texas
• Christian University (PowerPoint)
• Managing for Sustainable Futures, Professor Ian Lowe, Emeritus Professor, School of Science, Griffith University (PowerPoint)

2015 Conference

• People, Practices, and Performance: Problems and Prospects – Professor Patrick Wright, Thomas C Vandiver Bicentennial Chair in Business/Director, Center for Executive Succession, Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina (PowerPoint)
• Dynamic Capabilities and Related Paradigms – Professor David Teece, Tusher Center for Intellectual Capital Management, Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley (PowerPoint)

2013 Conference

• Current Developments in Theory and Research on Human Resource Management – Professor David Guest, Professor of Organizational Psychology and Human Resource Management, King’s College, London (PowerPoint)

2012 Conference

• The Paradox of Leading for Stability during Volatile Times – Professor Raj Pillai, Professor of Management, California State University San Marcos (PowerPoint)
• One big happy family: acquisition to integration – Mr Michael Malone, CEO, iiNet (PDF)
• Uncertainties in the Resources Sector Boardroom: Is the Minerals Boom Over? – Dr Allan Trench, Department of Mineral & Energy Economics, Curtin Graduate School of Business/Regional Advisor, CRU Strategies (PDF)
• The Development and Application of Flexible Expertise – Professor Bob Wood, Professor of Management/Director, Centre for Ethical Leadership, Melbourne Business School (PDF)

2011 Conference

• The Future of Management Education? – Professor Ian Palmer: 25th Anniversary Plenary (PowerPoint)
• Future Prospects for Management Education – Professor Delwyn Clark: 25th Anniversary Plenary (PowerPoint)
• The New Zealand Paradox:  Economics, Innovation and Prosperity – Professor Paul Callaghan, Alan MacDiarmid Professor of Physical Sciences Victoria University of Wellington (PowerPoint)
• The Discursive Construction of Meaning In Organizations – Professor Loizos Heracleous, Professor of Strategy & Organization, Warwick Business School (PowerPoint)