A key person in the cohort whom have established the “Pan African Australasian (Pacific) Diaspora Network(PAADN). He is an empowering, client-focused academic, researcher and engagements Manager with outstanding community leadership and high-level exceptional professional management skills of cross-cultural sensitive capacity building nature (participatory and collaborative). He is excellent in advisory, advocacy, and collaborative relationship building roles including admirable partnerships’ enhancements. He is one of the experts in the settlement services deliveries to the African Australians communities in Victoria/Australia added to the international African Diaspora links. He holds diverse international higher and other forms of educational experience and qualifications embedded in multicultural community stakeholders-ship management capabilities that are critical in delivering innovation and change especially in the current global world.
He operates with exceptional respecting culturally sensitive collaborative relationship management and business facilitation skills. He is an expert in engaging and maintaining institutional connections, research, and community development, all of which he does aiming at driving sustainable knowledge growth, new capacities’ development, knowledge creation and sharing for social policy reforms, as well better services delivery, in addition to contributions to reforms including supporting the marginalised. For a number of years, he has researched, published, engaged communities, advocated and taught as well as being units’ coordinator including strategic Management subjects, for example International Business and International Management, Project Management, Organisational Change and Development, Employment Relations, Remuneration Management, Strategic Human Resources Management/Development, Business Ethics, Organisational Behaviour and Strategic Management.
He has made significant contribution to higher education knowledge creation, sharing and delivery particularly through research developments and contributing to students’ career pathways; all done with shared visions and strategies with clients. He is specialised in Strategic and Effective Cross-Cultural knowledge delivery and Change Management especially in reference to the management and delivery of Settlement Services to Emerging Communities in both metro and regional/rural Victoria (Effective Management of Settlement Services).
All these are added to being a tireless community leader, who believes in equitable and fair treatment of all (access and equity). He holds a PhD in Strategic Organisational and Human Resources Management from La Trobe University, Business School, where has been teaching/lecturing for over 20 years, with excellent community engagement and publications. Other qualifications include: a Graduate Diploma/Masters Personnel and Industrial Relations, a Graduate Diploma Therapeutic Counselling, a Graduate Certificate in University Teaching and Learning, a Graduate Certificate in Social and Medical Research, and he is a member of a number of top professional bodies (see below and the designation following his signature/name reflect so).
