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He also has experience in small business, having started his own business several years ago. Here he learned that the challenges of working in a large organisation with sizeable teams also apply to smaller contexts. He uses the method and material of LEGO Serious Play to explore complexity in organisation and groups of people, using playful learning approaches to open up mental models and shift thinking.

Chad began his MBA many trimesters ago and, like most of you, began with Fundamentals of Leadership and adaptive leadership frameworks. The course was something of a revelation for him: it helped to explain much of what he had experienced in the tertiary sector and, crucially, helped him to understand his own ‘part in the mess’, or how his thinking and behaviour had helped to create the situations he found himself in. He also became intensely curious about systems and complexity and has begun to see how the principles of adaptive leadership apply to a wide diversity of contexts and situations, including in personal life.

Availability for consultation: Please feel free to contact me by email if you have any queries and I will endeavour to respond in a timely fashion. I am available for face-to-face consultation by appointment. Please contact by email in the first instance.





Office               The Business School, Rm 1041, 10 Pulteney St

M:                    +61 417 871 218

E:                     lois.whittall@adelaide.edu.au

Skype:             loisemma

Lois Whittall has been an Adjunct Lecturer in Leadership in the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide’s MBA program since 1998. She has extensive
experience in facilitating management education around the world - in 最新糖心Vlog, the UK, and a wide range of Asian countries, particularly in Adelaide 最新糖心Vlog’s postgraduate management program in Singapore. Currently, she teaches the core course Fundamentals of Leadership (FOL). She also works extensively in Adelaide 最新糖心Vlog’s Executive Education program teaching short workshops. Lois has a distant background in finance and completed the Chartered Management Accounting
qualification in 1982.

 In 2013 Lois completed Ronald Heifetz’s course at Harvard: The Art and Practice of Teaching Leadership. That was the catalyst for
introducing the concepts of adaptive leadership into the Fundamentals of Leadership Course and moving to Case-in-Point teaching for this course. As well as Leadership, her research interests are Change, Appreciative Inquiry and  Social Entrepreneurship. She currently uses Action Research to explore these topics across her teaching and consulting and in the complex diverse culture of Cambodia.

Lois has worked at Executive Director and senior management levels in a variety of public and private sector firms in roles encompassing Organisational Development, Human Resource Management and Finance.  Lois’ last full time role was as Executive
Director of a small company with about 50 employees. In the five years before she left she worked with her team to more than double the size of the business. At present as well as teaching for the university she designs and delivers Leadership Development programs for a number of large and small firms. Her experience has included working with global companies in the oil sector, electronics,
pharmaceuticals, software development, and government corporations.

In 2005 Lois started a project in Northern Cambodia which provides resources so that young women living in remote communities can finish high school and (if they do well enough) continue with higher education. The aim is to return teachers, doctors, nurses, business people and confident young women leaders to their villages. Working with some of the world’s poorest people in a province still infested with landmines involves a lot of learning especially about culture and leadership and creates an interesting life balance.

 Availability for consultation:  Please feel free to contact either Chad or Lois by email if you have any queries and we will endeavour to respond in a timely fashion. We are available for face-to-face consultation by appointment. Please contact us by email in the
first instance.