2012 MBA Directors Forum Speakers
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Carolyn J Barker AM Carolyn Barker joined the Endeavour Learning Group in May 2010 as the Chief Operating Officer and subsequently was appointed as Chief Executive Officer. Prior to this, Carolyn was the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Institute of Management (AIM) and Managing Director of TheCyberInstitute Pty Ltd. For over a decade, under Carolyn's leadership the AIM Group grew into an interrelated cluster of commercially focussed education, publishing, online learning and information businesses servicing corporate and government markets Australia wide. Carolyn started as a journalist and newsreader then owned and operated businesses in the advertising, marketing and professional services sectors. She has had nearly 20 years’ experience working in middle market organisations in both the private and public sectors. For five years Carolyn was Chair of the Brisbane City Council’s Business Advisory Board. She is Chair of the Griffith Business School Advisory Council, and an Adjunct Professor at the University. She is also a director of Shine Lawyers, a national law firm. For eight years Carolyn was Chair of The Queensland Orchestra and was also Deputy Chair of the Brisbane Powerhouse Centre for Live Arts. In 2005 Carolyn was made a Member in the Order of Australia for her service to business through management and educational organisations, and to the arts. Carolyn has a Bachelor of Business from QUT and an MBA from University of South Australia. She is currently undertaking a Doctor of Business Administration at QUT.
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Christine Fairchild Christine Fairchild was appointed Oxford University's new Director of Alumni Relations in March 2011. At Oxford, as Director of Alumni Relations Christine is responsible for supporting links between alumni of the collegiate University and Oxford through a dynamic offering of events, benefits, services and communications vehicles. The University has 180,000 known alumni, including more than 44,000 in 188 countries outside the UK. There is an extensive alumni network in the UK and abroad with more than 190 active branches and associations. Alumni communications include the Oxford Today magazine and ePidge, the monthly alumni newsletter. Key alumni events include the annual Alumni Weekend in Oxford and regular networking events and reunions in Europe, North America and Asia. Ms Fairchild was educated at Connecticut College in the US where she graduated with a BA in Asian Studies. At the Harvard Art Museums, she spent ten years in membership, development, special events and public education activities.
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Andrew Crisp Andrew Crisp, is Founder and Director, Carrington Crisp, UK. In November 2003, Andrew Crisp founded Carrington Crisp, a consultancy specialising in marketing and branding services for business schools and universities. Since that time the firm has worked for over 50 business schools in 11 countries. Much of the work has been based around The Business of Branding research project, which provides schools with data on perceptions and positioning of their school among six key audiences. Andrew's clients and projects have included re-branding London Business School and Wolverhampton Business School, developing advertising campaigns and internal communications, and writing management training books. Andrew also has considerable research experience utilising both quantitative and qualitative methods. Projects include a study examining business school websites at 18 business schools in the UK. Andrew has also written and spoken widely on the subjects of employment and communications including events organised by The Economist, The Industrial Society, The Design Council and the European Foundation for Management Development. |
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Carleen Kerttula Carleen Kerttula is executive director of the MBA Roundtable, a global non-profit association of 170+ business schools whose mission is to advance curricular innovation in MBA education. Carleen joined the Roundtable in 2007, after serving as assistant dean for the full-time MBA program (2004-2007) and as a director in career services (2001-2004) at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management. She contributes regularly to thought leadership in graduate management education by virtue of her leadership role with the MBA Roundtable, and as editor of the publication, MBA Innovation. She has been a speaker, conference chair, and session facilitator at multiple AACSB, GMAC, and Executive MBA Council events throughout the past ten years. She holds an MBA degree from the Thunderbird School of Global Management, and a BA in French and International Business from Concordia College. She enjoys running, downhill skiing, and international travel, and lives with her husband and son in Minneapolis, Minnesota. |
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Peter Lorange Peter Lorange has been President of Lorange Institute of Business Zurich since of July 2009. He was President of IMD from July 1993 until April 2008. He is Professor of Strategy and was the Kristian Gerhard Jebsen Chair of International Shipping. He was formerly President of the Norwegian School of Management in Oslo. Before this, Professor Lorange was affiliated with the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, for more than a decade. He has also taught for eight years at the Sloan School of Management (MIT). Peter Lorange is Norwegian. He received his undergraduate education from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business, was awarded an MA degree in Operations Management from Yale University, and his Doctor of Business Administration degree from Harvard University. He holds Honorary Doctorates from Pecs University, Moscow State University, Copenhagen Business School, Estanian Business School, and Lund University and he is an Honorary Member of EFMD. He serves on the board of directors of several corporations including: Zaruma Resources, Preferred Global Health and Seaspan Corporation. |