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Board member at Tully Sugar Limited & Adjunct Research Fellow at the Cairns Institute and College of Business and law Cairns Australia

Dr Lynch’s experience spans operations, production, maintenance, HR/IR, climate change, sustainability, energy efficiency, business development and project roles within mining, sugar, renewables, energy, consulting and requisite organisation. He is past chair of the Vocational Partnership Group, former board member of Skills 360 Australia and currently a board member of Tully Sugar Limited (TSL) which is owned by the Chinese agribusiness company COFCO.

Initial electrical qualifications are augmented by an MBA and a PhD. The thesis is founded on organisational change management, OD and the theories of Elliott Jaques (Requisite Organisation) in the Australian mining industry - predominately Conzinc Riotinto Australia (CRA) and Comalco (now Rio Tinto and Rio Tinto Alcan). The study is based around the company stewardship of Sir Roderick Carnegie, the organisational theories of Elliott Jaques and the change management processes of Professor John Kotter. The dissertation examines competitiveness, leadership, organisation development, change management, OD, requisite organisation, five business unit and group executive structures, culture, time span of discretion, strategy, stratified systems theory, industrial relations, core business, career development, the union movement, employment and single status workforce models.

Researched was undertaken throughout Australia, United Kingdom and the USA. Attended requisite organisation conferences/workshops in Melbourne Australia, London UK, Boston, Austin, Sarasota, Omaha and Atlanta in the USA.

My research is organised around a number of broad themes encompassing my working journey and research interests/outcomes, arising from my PhD:

# Organisational change and OD/OB, business unit and C-suite work levels
# Global mining, energy, agriculture/water climate change and sustainability
# China as it moves to a middle class society - energy usage and organisation structures
# Researching a substantial trilogy around the life and times of Elliott Jaques and Requisite Organisation



 

Degrees and certifications

 

PhD,  MBA,  Electrical

 

Contact Info

Major organizations and consulting firms that provide Requisite Organization-based services

A global association of academics, managers, and consultants that focuses on spreading RO implementation practices and encouraging their use
Dr. Gerry Kraines, the firms principal, combines Harry Levinson's leadership frameworks with Elliott Jaques's Requisite Organization. He worked closely with Jaques over many years, has trained more managers in these methods than anyone else in the field, and has developed a comprehensive RO-based software for client firms.
Founded as an assessment consultancy using Jaques's CIP methods, the US-based firm expanded to talent pool design and management, and managerial leadership practice-based work processes
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Former RO-experienced CEO, Ron Harding, provides coaching to CEOs of start-ups and small and medium-size companies that are exploring their own use of RO concepts.  His role is limited, temporary and coordinated with the RO-based consultant working with the organization
Ron Capelle is unique in his multiple professional certifications, his implementation of RO concepts through well designed organization development methods, and his research documenting the effectiveness of his firm's interventions
A Toronto requisite organization-based consultancy with a wide range of executive coaching, training, organization design and development services.
A Sweden-based consultancy, Enhancer practices time-span based analysis, executive assessment, and provides due diligence diagnosis to investors on acquisitions.
Founded by Gillian Stamp, one of Jaques's colleagues at Brunel, the firm modified Jaques;s work-levels, developed the Career Path Appreciation method, and has grown to several hundred certified assessors in aligned consulting firms world-wide recently expanding to include organization design
Requisite Organization International Institute distributes Elliott Jaques's books, papers, and videos and provides RO-based training to client organizations