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Acknowledgments
Jawun would like to thank its valued corporate,
government, philanthropic and Indigenous
stakeholders for their input into this report.
Jawun would also like to acknowledge the
assistance of volunteers who have contributed
their time towards the preparation of this report.
In preparing this report, Jawun drew on in-depth
interviews with more than 50 individuals and
senior executives, including current and past
secondees, from our corporate and government
partners. Their names are listed below.
Jaimes Adlington, Westpac
Carmen Ashcroft, IAG
Ilana Atlas, Jawun Board member
Tina Bain, NAB
Beau Beckman, Department of Defence
Dr Tracey Benson, Department of Industry and Science
Glen Brennan, NAB
Bonnie Carter, Department of Defence
Colin Carter, ex-BCG
Phillip Chan, ex-KPMG
Kate Chaney, Wesfarmers
Trish Clancy, BCG
Tien Do, KPMG
Victoria Doherty, QBE
Maria English, BCG
Melanie Evans, Westpac
Susan Ferrier, KPMG
Adrian Fisk, KPMG
Martina Friedl, Westpac
Pete Goss, ex-BCG
Sarah Goss, SJ Spencer Consulting
Justine Greig, Department of Defence
Melissa Griggs, ex-Westpac, now Suncorp
Richie Hadfield, CBA
Jason Hammond, QBE
Peter Hanlon, BankSA
Brian Hartzer, Westpac
Tom Hughes, ex-Qantas
Catherine Hunter, KPMG
Naomi Jeacle, Australian Public Service Commission
Tanya Kaye, KPMG
Chadi Khalifeh, ex-KPMG
Warren King, ex-Department of Defence
Vit Koci, Westpac
Nina Kordic, IAG
Rebecca Kotow, NAB
Nathan Krieger, ex-Westpac
Leena Lim, Suncorp
Rebecca Lund, NAB
James Mabbott, KPMG
Emma Majstrovich, Woodside
Elise Marciano, Woodside
Sara McDonald, Westpac
Rupert Myer AO, Jawun Board member
Maria Niedzwiecka, ex-KPMG
Melissa Noonan, Westpac
Beth Patterson, Allens
Noel Pearson, Cape York Partnership
Tim Plant, QBE
Katherine Power, Australian Public Service Commission
Luke Raffin, BCG
Steve Raynor, QBE
Dennis Richardson, Department of Defence
Peter Riley, Westpac
Ben Rimmer, ex-BCG
Peter Rixon, Australian Public Service
Cameron Roan, KPMG
Anthony Roediger, BCG
Michael Rose, Allens
Renee Schicks, CBA
James Sheffield, CBA
Martin Sheppard, KPMG
Ann Sherry, ex-Westpac
Chris Simpson, ex-KPMG
Steph Stokes, NAB
Jodie Symes, Allens
Ben Tan, KPMG
Siobhan Toohill, Westpac
Alan Tudge, ex-BCG
John Williams, Westpac
Gary Woods, NAB
Rachel Yang, KPMG
Notes
1. Noel Pearson, Our right to take responsibility,
Noel Pearson and Associates, Cairns, 2000.
2. Noel Pearson, ‘The Cape York agenda’, address to
the National Press Club, Canberra, 5 December 2005.
3. Michael E Porter & Mark R Kramer, ‘Creating shared
value’, Harvard Business Review , January 2011,
, viewed 12 September 2015.
4. In 2014, Jawun conducted a survey of 1,516
former secondees, with a 28% response rate (421
respondents), which is referred to in this report as
the ‘Jawun Alumni Survey’. In the survey, 77% of
respondents described their Jawun secondment
as ‘life-changing’.
5. John Dewey, Experience and education,
Kappa Delta Pi, New York, 1938.
6. Jawun, Alumni secondee interviews,
unpublished internal document, 2015.
7. Pierre Gurdjian, Thomas Halbeisen & Kevin Lane,
‘Why leadership-development programs fail’, The
McKinsey Quarterly, January 2014,
, viewed
21 August 2015.
8. In the Jawun Alumni Survey, 99% of respondents
reported improved understanding of Indigenous
people after their secondment.
9. Ibid.
10. In the Jawun Alumni Survey, 80% of respondents
reported that their secondment was the most
impactful development program they had
ever attended.
11. Daniel Goleman, ‘What makes a leader?’, Harvard
Business Review, January 2004,
, viewed
4 September 2015.
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