Solicitor Joel Pitman is Director of Morgan Conley Solutions, Lucas’ Pawpaw Remedies, and The Lucas’ Pawpaw Foundation. He is a Member of the Queensland Society and has been admitted as a registered practitioner by The Supreme Court of Queensland and The High Court of Australia. He also serves on Leaders Institute Governing Board and is Chair of its Risk Management Committee.
Governing Board
Global Leadership Institute’s Governing Board provides strategic leadership and is the governing authority of the Institute.
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Solicitor Joel Pitman (Chair)
Chair, Governing Board
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Rev. Professor Bernard Malik
Founder
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Professor Harvinder Singh
External Chair, Academic Board
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Professor Kevin Tickle
President Member, Governing Board Member, Academic Board Chair, Executive Management Team
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Pastor Chris Aiton
Director
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Professor Denise Austin
Chair, Risk Management Committee External Member
Message from the
Chair, Governing Board
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Solicitor Joel Pitman
Chair of GLI Governing Board
In this era, leadership skills within an organisation are critical to the success of the private, public and non-for-profit sectors globally. It makes good sense that delivering higher educational programs to professionals to enable them to have the specialised leadership knowledge, and skills to address their organisational and community challenges, would be extremely important to the global reputations of such organisations. This global reputation is the focus of the Global Leadership Institute Strategic Plan (2023-2028).
Global Leadership Institute (GLI) was developed to address needs identified for an educational leadership centre based on research and the advanced technical development of professionals who have a prior foundation built on academic, multi-disciplinary studies and work experience within their various agencies. The Institute focuses on experiential pedagogy learning, case studies, applied workplace projects and interpretative theoretical perspectives in leadership methodologies. This vision would allow the leadership graduates to apply governance competencies, leadership skills and cognitive creative abilities to address the future needs of their organisations and communities.
The Institute delivers courses and programs at a postgraduate level, supporting their operational and academic knowledge in a broad cross section of educational and professional electives and projects. The courses are designed to enlarge on a solid foundation of experience and previous educational programs by offering on-line technology-enhanced learning, and where required, pathway programs and in-house courses to ensure that these professionals achieve their personal and organisational outcomes. This may also include micro credentialing courses for their professional development in the future.
To achieve this vision, GLI has engaged qualified academic staff, professionals, and other key industry advisors to ensure that the programs and course content are supportive of contemporary Australian and International academic and professional standards to meet their organisational and community needs. The strategic plan will support an umbrella educational center capability that can expand educational leadership opportunities globally, but initially targeting the specific sectors of counterterrorism leadership, policing leadership, and interagency cooperation leadership.
The Institute ensures that content material is leading edge and exemplary practice in leadership and administrative directions globally. The course content is identified from academic research, governmental interests, media issues and public inquiries. Course development, teaching, and technology-enhanced delivery, including student assessment and other support services, is continually evaluated to ensure the highest standards are met based on Australian Education Framework (AQF) standards.
Global Leadership Institute Strategic Plan (2023-2028) explains our vision, mission, and values. The plan provides academic and professional direction for the Institute to ensure it fulfils its role to educate professionals to a higher level of leadership readiness for their respective organisations and communities.
Signed,
Solicitor Joel Pitman