Keynote Speakers
MASTERS OF CEREMONY
Glenn Mitchell
Since joining ABC Sport in Perth in 1990 Glenn has become a familiar voice nationwide with his commentaries on international and domestic cricket and AFL football as well as the last four Olympic Games.
Away from broadcasting, Glenn has held positions on the boards of the W.A. Sports Federation, the Coaching Foundation of W.A., and the Western Australian Paralympic Committee. He is also on the induction committee of the Western Australian Hall of Champions.
Karen Tighe
Karen has been presenter of the ABC's national GRANDSTAND radio program since 1997. She has also hosted many of ABC TV's major sports broadcasts including four Paralympic Games, Commonwealth Games, Hopman Cup Tennis, ABC Sports Awards nights, and golf.
For two successive years Karen was awarded the Media Award in the prestigious Sports Australia Awards - the first person to have won the award twice. Prior winners are Bruce McAvaney, Roy Masters and Ron Reed.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
John Clark
Director of Medical Leadership and International Relations, NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, UK
Director of Institute for Healthy Leadership, Department of Health, Western Australia
Honorary Associate Professor, Institute of Clinical Leadership, University of Warwick Medical School, UK
Adjunct Professor in Clinical Leadership, Curtin University, Western Australia
John Clark is responsible for developing medical leadership capacity within the NHS. He is currently leading a national project to enhance the engagement of doctors in leadership. This also includes the development of an integrated leadership competency framework for doctors from undergraduate and postgraduate education through to the most senior medical roles.
John is currently seconded from the NHS Institute to the Department of Health, Western Australia to establish the Institute for Healthy Leadership. He has previously been heavily engaged in developing the Healthy Leadership Strategic Framework and has been involved in a wide number of different activities within the health and higher education systems in WA.
Rachel Green
Director, RachelGreen.com.au
Rachel is an award-winning communication specialist, an emotional intelligence coach and author. She is one of Australia's most dynamic speakers. She has tertiary level qualifications in psychology, speech pathology, adult education and the Feldenkrais method. Her passion is understanding people.
Rachel currently heads up a speaking/training/coaching company and is the Founding Director of Confident Woman Australia. Prior to this she was a presentation trainer for the ABC, and an academic at Curtin University, and before then worked at Royal Perth Hospital. Rachel is the author of a number of books plus nine CD. She has a long history of providing practical and skills-based training and coaching to corporate, health, local government and public sector executives, managers and staff and works regularly with engineers.
Dr Norman Swan
Host, Health Report, ABC Radio National
Presenter, Health Minutes, ABC NewsRadio
Health Commentator, ABC Television's Catalyst,
Dr Norman Swan, is a multi-award winning broadcaster and journalist. In addition, he is the medical host in the 2010 season of Biggest Loser on Channel 10. One of the first medically qualified journalists in Australia, Norman graduated in medicine from the University of Aberdeen and later obtained his postgraduate qualifications in Paediatrics.
One example of Norman's work is his investigation of scientific fraud and the well-known gynaecologist Dr William McBride. The program exposed fraudulent research and moved authorities to reform how research was monitored in AustraliaI. It earned Dr Swan an Australian Writers' Guild Award for best documentary and a Gold Walkley.
Norman Swan has been the Australian correspondent for the Journal of the American Medical Association and the British Medical Journal and consults for the World Health Organisation in Geneva. In late 2008 Norman co-chaired a global meeting of Health Ministers in West Africa which pursued the goal of making health policy evidence-based and facilitated a follow up meeting in Singapore in October 2009.
