Congratulations to Dr Jens Beckmann (CI), Dr Damian Birney (CI) and Mr David Bowman (APDI) on being awarded an Australian Research Council Linkage grant for their project,"Flexible expertise in senior executives." The project will be conducted in collaboration with Prof Robert Wood (CI), Dr Shayne Gary (CI) and Dr Nadin Beckmann (APDI) from UNSW.

Project Summary
The prosperity of Australian society requires effective management in the face of accelerating economic, technological, social, and environmental changes. Leaders of Australian organizations must display flexibility in responding to the increasingly fluid and complex problems that confront them if they are to succeed in the global economy. An innovative model of flexible expertise that links synergisms of knowledge, self regulatory processes, transfer and learning will be developed in studies of managers from leading Australian organizations. The results will be used to inform programs to accelerate the development of flexible expertise and leadership skills and address the current lack of human capital to fill executive leadership roles.

Partner organisations include Macquarie Bank, Brambles, Booz Allen Hamilton, Qantas, IAG Insurance Australia Group, Egon Zehnder International and ANZ Australia and New Zealand Banking Group.

ARC Funding is for $2,085,599 over five years.

Well done!