Driving innovation in an increasingly disrupted education setting
The opening keynote address of the Curious.Collaborative.Courageous Staff Conference will be delivered by Dominic Thurbon, founder and Chief Creative Officer at Karrikins Group.
About the keynote
The face of tertiary education is changing rapidly. From market-driven forces like the increasing requirement for institutions to ‘compete’ for students and funding, through to disruption at the heart of pedagogy, technology-augmented content delivery and student engagement, the very essence of what it means to be a leading education institution is changing.
How can we, as academics and professionals, transform and adapt to meet these challenges? And how do we do it while enhancing, rather than compromising, the quality and rigor of what we do as educators?
About the presenter
Dom Thurbon is founder and Chief Creative Officer at Karrikins Group, a behaviour change and transformation agency with over 120 staff delivering programs in over 15 countries. With the team at Karrikins, Dom as led design and delivery of award winning change programs that reach nearly one million people per year, including over 500,000 students.
Dom is an internationally engaged thought leader in the fields of innovation, transformation and education. His clients cut across a diverse array of sectors including companies such as Apple, Microsoft and IBM, education organisations as diverse as the Australian Institute of Teaching and School Leadership, the University of Cincinnati, Box Hill TAFE and CQU, and a variety of public sector and NFP organisations.
He is also co-author of the international bestseller Matter: How to become the obvious choice, and white papers such as Game On: How video games are changing education, andTalent Magnets: How to attract and retain top teachers.
Dom currently sits on the education advisory group of Child and Youth Finance International, based in Amsterdam, and is a director at Educator Impact, a technology company improving instructional practice through 360o feedback for educators.
For full program details and registration go to newcastle.edu.au/staffconference
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