Qualifications 

Ph. D. in Applied and Organisational Psychology - Old Dominion University 

Master of Arts in Psychology - University of Manitoba 

Bachelor of Arts in Psychology - Springfield College 

James took on the role of Director of the Centre for Executive Education, Associate Dean
Executive Education and Clinical Professor of Management for the period from 7-2007 to
1-2008, and is currently Associate Professor of Management, Faculty of Business,
Technology and Sustainable Development, Bond University, Gold Coast Queensland. 

James was a member of the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) from 1990-2007
where he was a regular contributor to their world-class executive education and MBA
programs as a subject leader and developer, a cohort leader and a senior lecturer. James
was the Director of the AGSM’s Accelerated Development Program, a three-week residential
executive development program for high-potential managers, from 1994 to 1997, and was the
Head of the Organisational Behaviour Group for 2005-2006. 

James has worked on projects for numerous Australian and U.S. corporations, most recently
in the areas of strategy design and implementation, the implementation of innovation and
new technology, organisational change, and applying design principles and creativity to
strategy design and development. He has worked with firms such as Boral, Rio Tinto, The
ABC, Munich Reinsurance, ANZ Bank, Westpac, Vodafone, Telstra, Optus, SAP, AMP, NRMA,
Commonwealth Bank, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, AAG Holdings/Volante, Australian Customs
Service, Trowbridge Consulting, Australian Defense Industries, Mallesons Stephen Jaques,
Honeywell Australia Limited, St. Vincent's Hospital Sydney, Austrade and The
Pipeline Authority, in Australia, and with General Motors, Ford Motors and over 100 of
their first and second tier suppliers in the U.S. During the past twenty years he has
regularly conducted programs in organisational and personal change, strategy and
technology implementation, creativity and strategy design, communication and
interpersonal skills, and organisational behaviour. 

James has published over two-dozen articles and five books on various socio-technical
issues and has written a regular section for the Australian Financial Review BOSS
magazine. He has been a facilitator of short-term meetings and large-scale organisational
change, and a speaker at numerous meetings on organisational strategy, cybernetics, human
factors/ergonomics, human technology, and organisational behaviour.

Articles

Link

Development strategy by design - The future of strategy, World future review: A journal of strategic foresight (2011)

Extract:

Organizational strategy is typically conceived and developed as an extension of the past and...

 

Creating strategy by design, Design principles and practices: An international journal (2009)

Although thousands of books and articles have been written on organizational strategy, there is very...

 

Books

Strategy by design: A process for strategy innovation, Business papers (2010)

Strategy by Design illustrates how to use many of the principles, processes and tools of...

 

Developing management skills: A comprehensive guide for leaders (with Graham Andrewartha), Business papers (2008)

Extract:

The philosophy of this book is that improvement in management skills is primarily...

 

Ancient wisdom for modern minds: A thinking heart and feeling mind (2007)

The text is designed to help people access emotion, express emotion, acknowledge emotion, release emotion...

 

Changing gears: The strategic implementation of technology (2003)

The focus of this book is upon the implementation of new technology, strategy, business models,...