Robert Wood is Professor of Management and will be establishing an Accelerated
Learning Laboratory at Melbourne Business School. Prior appointments include Deputy Vice
Chancellor at the University of Western Australia and visiting Professor at the Kellogg
School, Northwestern University. He completed his PhD in organizational behaviour at the
University of Washington (Seattle) and did post doctoral studies at Stanford University
Psychology Department. He is Editor of Applied Psychology an International Review. He was
awarded the AGSM Alumni Outstanding Teacher Award (1998) and the inaugural AGSM Award for
Excellence in Research (2002). He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences -
Australia, the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management; the American
Psychological Association (Division 14) and the International Association of Applied
Psychologists.
Robert has designed, developed and delivered programs for senior managers and provided
advice in many Australian and overseas corporations, including Saudi Aramco, Dow
Chemical, Telstra, P&O Ports, Dubai Ports World and the Hong Kong Government. He has
delivered programs to managers in the USA, Australia, Malaysia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, UAE,
the Philippines, and Hong Kong. He was Consultant to OECD (Paris) from 1990 to 1996.
During that period he conducted several multi-national studies of pay schemes and
performance appraisal practices for managers in Europe, the USA, Japan and Australia.
Robert has served on the Boards of Royal Perth Hospital, the Australian Graduate School
of Management and the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management and the University
of Western Australia Senate. He currently sits on the Executive Boards of the Academy of
Social Sciences Australia and the International Association of Applied Psychology.
