Dr Wesley Payne McClendon is Executive Director, McClendon Research Group, Inc., Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Victoria Graduate School of Business and Chair, People & Culture Committee and Non-Executive Director (NED), Australian Institute of Architects (AIA) and Board Director, AIA Foundation. He is also Chairman and CEO, Grow Project Foundation, Chief Transformation Officer, Diversity Atlas, and NED Vortex Innovations and Vertical Farming Australia.

Wesley was previously Managing Director and Professor, Edinburgh Institute (UK and Hong Kong); Partner and UK Practice Leader, Mercer HR Consulting (London); and Principle and Melbourne Practice Leader, Ernst & Young (Australia). He is author of more than 40 articles and 2 books including “Strategy, People and Performance.”

Wesley has a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and Master of Science (MSc) in Human Resource Management and Industrial Labour Relations from The Pennsylvania State University. His Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) research at Napier Edinburgh Business School on “Leadership, People and Culture Due Diligence in Mergers & Acquisition, Integration and Restructure” will be published later this year.

As a strategic advisor and management consultant, Wesley has worked with the CEOs and leadership teams of publicly listed companies GOOROO (ASX-GOO), mid-size health insurers GMHBA and start-ups Converged Technology and Peggy and Finn. He has also worked as an advisor to President Bill Clinton as a member of the President’s Working Group, Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Administration Cabinet Secretary Tessa Jowell as a fellow at the US Embassy in London, and Prince Turki as a member of the senior leadership team at DAR AL Riyadh in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Wesley is a leadership coach and board mentor at Criticaleye (UK and Australia), and lectures, chairs student PhD dissertation committees and publishes articles on transformational leadership, strategy and strategic change, organisation behaviour and change management.

What you'll discover:

• What's missing from the diversity and inclusion conversation
• Where's the onus on leadership development
• World class people and performance insights 
• Alchemy of the best leaders in the field 
• How your whole trajectory can change in a day
• How far you can push yourself and still achieve greatness
• Where putting minorities in positions of power falls over

And so much more! 

Resources: https://au.linkedin.com/in/wesleypaynemcclendon

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