Professor Elizabeth More AM
Chair
Professor Elizabeth More is the Foundation Executive Dean of the Faculty of Business at the Australian Catholic
University (ACU), taking up this newly-created position in April 2010.
Professor More joined the ACU University following a period as Professor of Management and MBA and
Research Director at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Academic Director of Macquarie
University’s City Campus, and a five year period as Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Macquarie and Canberra
universities. Prior to these positions she was Director of the Graduate School of Management, Chair of
Academic Senate at Macquarie University, and Managing Director of MGSM Pty Ltd.
Professor More holds a first class honours degree in Humanities and a PhD from the University of NSW; a
Graduate Diploma in Management from the University of Central Queensland; and a Masters degree in
Commercial Law from Deakin University.
Professor More’s impressive academic achievements were acknowledged in the Queen’s Birthday 2005
Honours List, when she received the award of Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for service to education,
particularly in the fields of communication, management and organisational change.
Her current community service includes being a Director on the Boards of the National Institute of Dramatic
Art (NIDA), SCOPE, the Sydney Film School, and the Australian Centre for Advanced Computing and
Communications (ac3); Chair of AUSDANCE NSW; and a Member of the Education Advisory Board for the
Australian Institute of Management.
Professor More has given conference presentations and published widely, both locally and internationally, in
the field of organisation studies, particularly in the areas of organisational change, communication, culture,
communications technology and policy. Her current research focus is on communication and knowledge
management, and management in the performing arts.
She is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Global Responsibility, Asia-Pacific Journal of Business
Administration, Australian Journal of Communication; the Journal of Communication Management; The Journal
of International Communication; and Knowledge and Process Management – The Journal of Corporation
Transformation. She has been awarded research grants from the Australian Research Council, Macquarie
University, the NSW Education and Training Foundation, and the Commonwealth Department of Health.
Professor More has been an Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA) Auditor. She chaired the Audit of La
Trobe University in 2004, and was on the trial audit panel for the University of the Sunshine Coast and the
panel for the audit of Flinders University in 2006. She was also an assessor for AUQA’s Good Practices
Database.
Professor More is a past President of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, and of the
Australian Communication Association. She also has extensive experience in consulting to both private and
public sector organisations and, over the past decade, has been called upon regularly for expert media
comment on issues related to management practice and education. Before becoming a university academic,
she worked as a classical ballet dancer in theatre and television, and in the advertising industry.
Previously she served as a Board Member of Sydney Dance Company, Member of the NSW Government’s
Council on the Cost and Quality of Government; and a Member of the International Institute of
Communications Australian Chapter Committee. She was also appointed by the Commonwealth Government
as a Member of the Government’s Telecommunications Industry Development Authority (TIDA); and to the Tax
Concession Committee of the IR&D Board. She has also served on the Board of the Council for the Humanities,
Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS).
Neil Adams
Treasurer
B.Bus (Accy), LLB, FCPA, CIA, FILA, MAICD
Neil is the Director of Adams Consulting & Training Pty Ltd and provides consultancy services to both the public and private sectors. He has undertaken impressive roles at senior levels of government and the private sector, and has substantial experience in both internal and external audit, corporate governance, probity, management and financial investigations, contract negotiations, administration and legal management. Neil holds Bachelor degrees in both Business and Law, is a Fellow of the Institute of Internal Auditors (Aust) and CPA Australia, is admitted to practice as a Barrister and Solicitor, is a Certified Internal Auditor and is the Immediate Past Chairman of the NSW Council of the Institute of Internal Auditors (Aust). He is also a member of the CPA Australia Board Disciplinary Committee. Neil moved into consultancy in May 1998 following 9 years with Transfield Holdings (a construction & engineering group of companies with a turnover around $1.4billion).
His roles there were: General Manager, Group Internal Audit; and General Manager, Finance & Administration, Asia.
Prior to that he worked within the Commonwealth government rising to the positions within the Australian National Audit Office of: Second Assistant Auditor-General and NSW Regional Manager, representing the federal Auditor- General in NSW with clients such as the Commonwealth Bank, Qantas, and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and managing an organisation of approximately 100 professional staff; and Director of Audit (particularly involved with performance audit in a number of agencies).
As part of his consulting, he was Financial Adviser to the Olympic Coordination Authority and has undertaken project management, corporate governance, financial assessment, organisational and management reviews, and probity assignments for a number of state, federal and local government agencies. Neil has had articles published by the Australian Institute of Public Administration, CPA Australia, the Institute of Internal Auditors and others, and has presented to international conferences and led developments in probity advising and a number of audit related fields.
Pamela Edwards
Public Officer
PAMELA EDWARDS BA/LLB (UNSW)
(Public Officer)
Pamela returned to Australia after 17 years in the United Kingdom and became a self-employed consultant
specializing in the funds management industry advising on cross border funds and marketing. In 2000-2003
Pamela held the position of Executive Director, Legal Services at Fidelity Investments International, UK.
Pamela’s background as a Solicitor and Partner for various corporate and commercial Law firms and as General
Counsel with Tyndall Holdings PLC, UK has proven valuable. During Pamela’s years with Tyndall Holdings PLC
(subsequently Jupiter Tyndall Plc) she was the Company Secretary of this public listed company and in that
capacity she attended all board meetings and participated as an executive in the Management committee
meetings which were the strategic meetings of the executive officers of the company which made all strategic
recommendations to the Board.
PETER LEUNIG
Committee Member
BSc (WAust) BA (WAust)
Peter Leunig is currently Head of Fundraising for St Vincents & Mater Health Sydney. Peter has been responsible for two very successful advancement and development operations in Australian universities, creating from the ground up and leading, the Office of Institutional Advancement at Macquarie University and the Office of Development and Alumni Relations at the University of Western Australia (UWA). He established the Macquarie University Foundation in 2009, and UWA’s Hackett Foundation in 1998 which has been highly successful in raising funds for the university.
His recreational interests include sport and the arts, especially dance and music, and in particular he has a great love of the pipe organ, and its French and German repertoire through the Romantic and Modern period.
REBECCA TAYLOR
Committee Member
Bachelor of Social Science (BSoc Sc), Macquarie University, Sydney
Certificate IV in Training and Assessment – TAA40104, Aurora Training & Professional Services
Rebecca Taylor has extensive experience in the arts sector in management, research, policy, learning & development, and as a professional performer. With qualifications in social research and politics, she has worked across government, tertiary and arts sectors, including research for audience and cultural development for government arts agencies. Rebecca has worked as a professional dancer in Australia, the USA and UK, including the English National Ballet, Connecticut Ballet and with independent choreographers. Rebecca also has experience as a ballet and contemporary dance teacher, and has worked with student outreach programs in the USA. Rebecca’s dance career is now focused on training and performance in International Latin Dance. She has performed a Latin Dance Showcase in Sydney in 2009 and has recently travelled to the USA to train with competitors and coaches in New York and Los Angeles.
Rebecca currently holds the position of Policy Review Officer at the Sydney Opera House, previously holding positions of Learning and Development Consultant and Manager, Organisation Development and Learning with the Sydney Opera House. In previous years Rebecca has worked with Macquarie University, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australia Council for the Arts and Historical Houses Trust of NSW
Kay Armstrong
Board member
Kay graduated from West Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 1988. Since moving to Sydney in 1989 Kay has worked professionally as a dancer and actor in theatre, film, television, theatre-in-education, corporate theatre and street theatre. She has been seen in T.V commercials, feature film and theatre
From 1991- 1996 Kay formed her own duo dance theatre company, Halex Vargus, and with the support of both state and federal funding, toured the company and her work nationally and overseas. She also created and produced a successful dance in education program ‘On the Air’ which toured as part of Young Australia Workshop to both metro and regional NSW and W.A.
Kay began exploring making and performing solo work in 1997 and has to date produced three full-length solo productions and numerous short solo works. These pieces have been performed in festivals both nationally and overseas.
She had a long-standing relationship with One Extra Dance Company performing with them originally in 1990 then returning in 2000 as an affiliated artist. Kay joined One Extra in several projects as a performer and three solo productions as choreographer / performer.
In 2004 she was awarded the prestigious Robert Helpmann Scholarship. The scholarship afforded her one-year of professional development, during this time she travelled overseas participating in workshops and choreographic laboratories in Italy, Brussels, Amsterdam. England and France.
In 2006 Kay re-joined Dean Walsh’s project BACK FROM FRONT in its second development stage, toured her solo work to Dancehouse as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, continued her choreographic investigations with a Critical Path research dance film project and was invited to partake in the Thierry de Mey dance film workshop hosted by Reeldance and Critical Path. She also choreographed works for the BA Dance course at UNSW and Stella Maris College. She also joined a collaborative team of independent artists in the development of a new site-specific production for the Historic Houses Trust.
At the beginning of this 2007 Kay was appointed Artistic Director of pulse8, a youth dance company committed to providing a platform for emerging, talented young
dancers and dance makers.
In October 2007 Kay performed a solo work in the inaugural Short and Sweet Dance Festival, taking out the Judges Choice Award for outstanding choreography / performance. She was appointed 2007 Artist Representative on the board of the peak dance research organization of NSW, Critical Path, and was also voted one of Australia’s most interesting artist’s by Dance Australia Magazine, as part of the 2007 Dance Australia Critic’s Survey.
In 2008 Kay was invited by DirtyFeet, an independent dance collective, to remount her work Full Cup Steady Hand which was performed in August as part of their sell-out season Under The Weather. She was also invited to sit on their board for 2008. In 2009 she has been invited back as mentor to the collective.
Since becoming Artistic Director with pulse8 in 2007, Kay has produced four public seasons, two outdoor festival events, two education programs and mentored one emerging artist and nurtured and supported over forty young aspiring dancers.
In 2009 she moves on from pulse8 and launches her new independent youth dance company youMove. The company will be supported in part by Western Sydney Dance Action under the umbrella of Riverside Theatre, Parramatta and will have its home in the new Connect Studios in the heart of Western Sydney.
Over the last seventeen years Kay has taught in both private and tertiary institutions including – UWS Nepean, UNSW, ACPE, Brent St Studios, Sydney Dance Company, Ausdance professional classes. She currently teaches at private studios – Balmain Dance Academy and Woollahra Dance Academy and has held her position in these private schools for the last fifteen years. She has long held a passion for dance education and has devoted her energy to the growth and development of youth dance in NSW.
Kay is a well-respected independent dance artist. She is a committed and prolific member of the NSW dance community and continues to champion the art form by becoming involved in the many facets of the dance community from creating, producing, mentoring, to teaching. She also volunteers her time and knowledge to the growth and development of the sector by sitting on boards and accepting invitations to sit on peer assessment committees such as – ArtsNSW Dance Committee Member (2000-2003) Robert Helpmann Scholarship
Committee(2002 , 2006), Critical Path Board (artist rep 2007, peer assessment panel 2007), External Advisory Committee ACPE (2008), DirtyFeet board member ( 2008-2009), Short, Sweet and Dance Festival panel ( 2007, 2008), AusdanceNSW Residency Program Assessment panel (2008).
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