Who: Introducing Group 8 Education
Group 8 Education is made up of a diverse group of people who all share a common passion to see the transformation of our education systems to provide for our children the best environment for their growth and development both as individuals and as productive members of society.
John Corrigan
John is founder and a principal of Group 8 Education. John has extensive experience – developed out of a background in strategy consulting, corporate and business unit planning, and change management – in the transformational change of organisations, predominantly those where relationships are an important source of the value that the organisation creates.
John developed the Value Framework methodology nearly ten years ago as a means of investigating the value of services and to stimulate cultural change within organisations. This methodology was adapted for use in schools in 2001 and is one of the core methodologies used by Group 8 Education today. John’s interest in education was stimulated by being a participant in the Sydney Leadership Program in 2001.
Subsequently he worked for two years in his spare time developing the strategic framework that underpins Group 8 Education’s approach to educational transformation. To move from a framework for change to actual programs John founded Group 8 Education at the end of 2003. John has an MA in Mathematics from Cambridge University and an MBA from INSEAD, France.
Highlights include:
- Group General Manager with Dames & Moore, the world’s largest engineering and environmental business, leading a group of four professional service businesses in Australia.
- Chief Executive of environmental technology start-up company from initial idea through to successful prototyping of technology
- Leader of the major change management program within Boral, one of the world’s largest building and construction materials groups reporting directly to the Managing Director. The program embraced thirty businesses and led the shift in business focus from an internal, production focus to an external, customer focus.
- Member of the senior management team of Ocean Group, a European Headquartered Multinational, which systematically restructured the whole group from a stagnant conglomerate to a focused industrial services group.
- Implemented complex selling and proposal writing methods to address large and regulated customers to increase size of projects won in both consulting and engineering environments.
- Developed a value proposition for the sewage treatment sector, surveyed senior executives who represented 80% of installed capacity to identify the areas that caused them concern then developed a proposition that met their needs.
- Developed successful new value propositions and strategies for a series of businesses – environmental testing laboratories and freight forwarding with Ocean Group; roofing, ready-mix concrete, quarrying and LPG distribution businesses with Boral and design engineering and environmental consulting with Dames & Moore.
Doug Long
Doug is a Director of Group 8 Management in Australia. Prior to joining Group 8, he had more than 30 years experience in management, consulting and education in New Zealand, the USA, and Australia.
Doug’s academic career culminated with the degree of Ph.D in organisational psychology and for some 12 years he was associated with executive education at Macquarie Graduate School of Management. He now holds an Adjunct post at Southern Cross University as a supervisor on their DBA program.
Doug has written and published four books:
Career highlights include:
- Working with the Board and Executive Team at Sydney Electricity (now Energy Australia) to help facilitate the change from a government instrumentality to a fully commercialized operation.
- Working with the Board and Executive Team at Ricegrowers Cooperative Limited to help facilitate the introduction of SAP simultaneously with completing a reengineering program.
- Working with the Board and Executive Team of Caltex Oil Malaysia Limited to improve the company’s market position from #5 in Malaysia
- Working with the Executive Team at Terrace Tower Holdings on future directions for this property development group
- Working with the Board and Executive Team of PTC Telekom, Papua New Guinea, for corporatising the operations
- Working with Sembawang Corporation in Singapore to improve leadership practices for all their operations through South East Asia
Doug is a regular speaker about leadership issues on the international circuit. He has been a keynote speaker at conferences in Japan, Spain, Brazil, Singapore, New Zealand, the USA, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Finland, and The Netherlands.
Doug coordinated the operations of the State Relief Centre in Victoria during the Ash Wednesday Bush Fires (the worst fires in the 20th century to hit Victoria) and was commended in Parliament and in official publications for this role.
Doug's own website is here.
Andrew Mowat
Previous to Andrew’s coaching development, he had accrued over 22 years working with people of all ages in the education sector. with many and varied contexts (mainstream, primary, secondary, TAFE, Koorie) and roles (student welfare, technology leadership, school leadership). ??The last 6 years of his time in education were spent as a school principal where strong emotional intelligence and people skills were expressed towards providing inspirational leadership in a complex setting, creating a learning and improvement culture and facilitating individual potential and organizational capacity. Now a lead coach and coach trainer, Andrew has coached in many contexts, though now is very much an educational leadership and school culture specialist. He has worked now with over 60 schools either in clusters or as individual schools, along with key Regional (Victoria) and LEA (United Kingdom) leadership teams.
Andrew’s coach training is characterized by powerful content, strong experiential learning and engaging presentation. Andrew has now trained hundreds of educational leaders both in Australia and England, and is currently writing a book based on his compelling (and at times, life changing) training.
An accredited coach with Results Coaching Systems and an ICF (International Coach Federation) member, Andrew continues to ‘sharpen the saw’, and has significant coaching education to support his coaching and training development.
This includes:
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Intensive Coach Training, Results Coaching Systems
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Executive Coach Training, Results Coaching Systems
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Team Coach Training, Results Coaching Systems
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Accredited Results Coaching Systems Coach (Executive Coaching)
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Precursors to Coaching, New York
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Member International Coach Federation
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Covey Seven Habits Trained
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B.Sci.Ed (Melbourne)
Andrew’s website is here.
Anne Timothy
Anne joined our UK operations in May, 2008. and has worked in childcare, community development, third sector organisations and more recently, for the last eight years, in a local authority as a strategy manager, as part of their school improvement service. She has supported and advised over 200 schools and numerous local authorities.
She has had a number of regional roles within the UK and has contributed to writing national policy documents both as a writer and an advisor.
Anne has had considerable experience in managing people and has exceptional leadership skills around strategic planning and translating theory and concepts into practice.
Alongside this experience Anne has taught Economics, Law and Business Studies and facilitated local, regional and national conferences by delivering presentations and workshops.
Anne is a member of the Chartered Management Institute and has studied various post graduate courses including:
- CMI Level 5 in Management
- Critical Friendship for School Improvement – MA Education Studies, Canterbury Christchurch University, Kent
- Cognitive Coaching and NLP training