New Mentor Joins Warnborough : Dr. Douglas G Long
Douglas G Long’s passion is helping leaders unlock the potential in themselves and their people. Through unlocking this potential it becomes possible for organisations of any size and/or type to attain the highest performance levels. He helps leaders understand early performance warning indicators and to engage their people in resolving them.
He was born in New Zealand but moved to Australia in 1976. His tertiary education was in New Zealand, Australia, England, and the USA, culminating with a PhD in Organisational Psychology.
For many years he taught in universities in Australia and the USA and he is currently both with Australia’s Southern Cross University Graduate College of Management where he supervises candidates studying for their degree of DBA and teaches Organisation Behaviour at the Australian Business School, UNSW.
Along with this, he has been an active consultant specialising in leadership and change with public and private sector clients throughout Australia, New Zealand, and South East Asia. In this role he has facilitated some major changes undergone by both small and very large Australian and South East Asian organisations.
He has been involved in community service for most of his life and back in the 1970’s established a community based Social Services operation in a NZ town of 10,000 people. For 16 years he was a member of the St John Ambulance Brigade and, in Melbourne, after he was appointed a Justice of the Peace, he sat on the Bench at two local Magistrates’ Courts for several years. In 1983 he was brought in to coordinate the State Relief Centre operations for the disastrous Ash Wednesday Bush Fires in Victoria. Douglas now lives in Sydney.
He is the author of 6 books:
· Learner Managed Learning: the key to lifelong learning and development
· Competitive Advantage in the 21st Century: from Vision into Action
· The Challenge of the Diamond
· Leaders: diamonds or cubic zirconia – Asia Pacific Leaders on Leadership
· Third Generation Leadership and the Locus of Control: knowledge, change and neuroscience
· Delivering High Performance: Third Generation Leadership in Action
And a co-author (with Andrew Mowat and John Corrigan) of:
· The Success Zone: 5 Powerful Steps for Growing Yourself and Leading Others
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