Professor Peter Sheldrake

Position	Program Director, Bus Entrepreneurship
School / Work Unit	Graduate School of Business
Contact Details	+(61 3) 9925 0113 peter.sheldrake@rmit.edu.au
Location	Building: 158 Level: 3 Room: 2 City Campus
Portfolio	Business

Qualifications

Master of Science 1975 University of Cambridge
Master of Arts 1972 University of Cambridge
Bachelor of Arts (Hons) 1966 University of Cambridge

Position

Professor of Business Entrepreneurship, Director Business Relationships, Graduate School of Business

Teaching areas

Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Business Strategy, Leadership

Experience

Professor of Business Entrepreneurship, establishing programs for companies, since 2001
Head, School of Management, RMIT, 1997 to 2000
Taught courses and short programs at RMIT, and for RMIT in China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand.Also developed and taught a number of in-company programs, 1997-2005
CEO, The Cranlana Programme, 1997
Executive Director, Australian Institute of Management 1988 – 1996 (and National CEO 1993-1996)
Partner, Tadorna Consulting, 1987
Director, Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs, 1985-6 (and Deputy Director 1981-4)
Senior Development Advisor, Shell Company of Australia, 1979-1981
Associate Professor and Reader in Educational Management, Flinders University of South Australia, 1975-1979
Lecturer, Educational Research Unit, University of Edinburgh, 1971-5
Teaching Fellow, Management Unit, University of Cambridge, 1969-1971
I am currently a Director of Red Stitch Theatre Company, a Director of the Centre for Transformational Leadership, and a Director and Chairman of the Autumn Music Festival.

Memberships

Fellow, Australian Institute of Company Directors
Member, Australian Institute of Enterprise Facilitators (President 2003-2005)
Member, Editorial Panel, Singapore Management Review

Prizes and awards

Honorary Fellow, Australian Institute of Management;

Conference Proceedings (refereed)

‘Creating innovative SMEs: is copying the sincerest form of flattery?’, paper presented at the 50th ICSB World Conference, Washington, June 15-18, 2005
‘Encouraging corporate entrepreneurship:public policy and enterprise responsiveness – an Australian case study’, paper presented at the Singapore Management University EDGE Conference - Bridging the Gap: Entrepreneurship in Theory and Practice, Singapore, 11-13 July, 2005-10-06
‘Facilitating Change and Innovation – challenges in small and medium companies’, paper presented at the 17th Annual SEEANZ Conference, Brisbane 27-29 September, 2004
‘Stimulating innovation: business and government strategies in Australia and China’, paper presented at the, 6th west Lake International Conference on Small and Medium Business, Hangzhou, PRC, 30 October – 1 November, 2004
‘Small business and the arts:encouraging arts companies to be business innovators’, paper presented at the 16th Annual Conference of the Small Enterprise Association of Australia and New Zealand, Ballarat, 29 September, 2003
With Chen YF and Ji YJ, “The Commercialisation of Science and Technology: Government strategies in Australia and China’, Paper presented to the 15th Annual Conference of the Association for Chinese Economic Studies Australia 2 October, 2003
with Meigu Guan, ‘Revolutionary leadership’, paper presented at the Sino-Australian Conference of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Policy and Practice, Hangzhou, PRC, 7-9 November, 2001
'E-business and corporate governance', paper presented at the Asian Forum on Business Education Conference: Reform and Accountability, Chiang Rai, Thailand, 29 November-1 December, 2000
With James Hurley, ‘Business management and the role of values: an Australian perspective’, presented at the First International Forum on Management, Ethics and Spirituality, Montreal, September 1998

Professional Journals

'The Good Manager in a World of Change", Journal of Human Values, Vol 6, No 2, pp 131-44, 2000
Great expectations: education and the world of work, Unicorn, Vol 24, no 3, December 1998, pp73-8
'Trying to keep up:the shifting sands of industry needs', The Australian Journal of Vocational Education and Training in Schools, Vol 1, August, pp. 28-9, 1998
'Autonomy and control: government and statutory authorities', Australian Journal of Public Administration, Vol XLVI, No 3, September, 1987

Other Publications

Books

1975

with S Berry, Looking at Innovation, Windsor, UK: National Foundation for Educational Research

1978

with R D Linke, I N Mensh, D I Newble, and E F Rosinski, Medical Education in Australia, ERDC Report 16, Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service

1979

with N Nilsson, Design for Adversity, Adelaide: Flinders University of South Australia
with R D Linke (Eds.), Accountability in Higher Education, Sydney: George Allen and Unwin
Managing Matters: Change, Challenge and Commitment, Sydney: ABC

2001

with Brian Hirsh, Inclusive leadership: an introduction, Melbourne: Information Australia

2003

Ronin and Revolutionaries, Singapore: TimesPublishing
The Ronin Age, Singapore:Times Publishing

Recent journal articles (non-refereed)

1997

"Strategies for leadership development - leadership for the 21st century." Training and Development in Australia, Vol. 24 Number 1, March, p13 - 17. (A paper originally presented at the 1996 AITD Conference)
'Active integrity, Ethos, vol 1, no 1, November 1997, pp 15-17

1998

Leaders as servants, Drake Business Review, Vol 12, no 1, pp 10-12
Career planning and postgraduate education:putting the pieces together, Australian CPA, vol 68, no 8, September 1998, pp 26-29
Quality and control:are we losing the plot with ISO-craziness? Drake Business Review, Vol 12, no 2, pp 14-15
A duty of care, Ethos, vol 2, no 1, November 1998, pp 21-22

1999

‘Matching personal and corporate values –the challenges of cultural diversity’, Invited paper: Corporate Human Values Seminar, Malaysian Airlines Academy: Kelana Jaya, Malaysia, 2 August 1999
With James Hurley, ‘The Good Manager in a World of Change’, RMIT Business Working Paper WP99/18
‘Knowing what we know’, Drake Business Review, Vol 13, no 3, pp 16-18

2000

‘Managing productivity – it’s really about people’, Drake Business Review, Vol 14, no 2, pp 6-8
‘Creating a culture of innovation’, Drake Business Review, Vol 14, no 3, pp 10-12
With James Hurley, 'Affaires, valeurs, et spiritualité', Chapter 12 of Pour un management éthique et spirituel, Edited by Thierry Pauchant et Associates, Montreal: Editions FIDES, Presses HEC

2001

‘Seeing future opportunities’, Executive Excellence, April 2001, page 20
‘Inclusive Leadership’, Business Essentials, June 2001
With Dai Shufen, ‘Creating a culture of innovation’, RMIT Business Working Papers, WP 2001/19, September
‘Revolutionary leadership: innovation and entrepreneurship as key competitive skills’, Managing People, No. 8, December

2002

With James Hurley, ‘Management, values and spirituality’, Chapter 12 of Ethics and spirituality at work, Ed. Thierry Pauchant and Associates, New York: Quorum Books

Other, eg consulting

Consulting and/or development assignments in many organizations, recently inc:

AMCOR
ANZ Banking Group
Arts Victoria
ASCPA
Asialink, University of Melbourne
Aspen River
Aussie Bodies
Austrade
Australia Post.
Golden Hope Plantations (Malaysia)
Herman research Laboratories
Knight Frank
Leadership Victoria
Malaysia Airlines (at MAS Academy, Kelana Jaya, Kuala Lumpur).
Malaysian Institute of Management.
Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group
Melbourne City Council
Monash University (Law faculty)
Myer Foundation
Orica
Peoples Insurance (Malaysia)
Playbox theatre Company
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria
St Martins Theatre Company
Shell Company of Australia
Singapore Institute of Management
Stock Exchange of Thailand
Telekom Malaysia
Unilever (Thailand)
YTL (Malaysia)