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Each member in Cranlana’s core team and within our Faculty plays a vital role in shaping our programs and guiding our mission to cultivate ethical leadership in Australia.

Each member in Cranlana’s core team and within our Faculty plays a vital role in shaping our programs and guiding our mission to cultivate ethical leadership in Australia.
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John led a career in Defence of over 30 years, including in Defence’s senior leadership group. John joined Defence, becoming an Army helicopter pilot after graduating from ADFA and Duntroon, and concluding his full-time career leading Army’s aviation enterprise among other senior leadership roles on operations and in Special Operations Command. On leaving full-time service and as a member of the Army Reserve, John has been the inaugural Principal and leader of the Centre for Defence Leadership and Ethics through the reformation of leadership, ethics and character development in the Australian Defence Force.
John is currently Principal at Strategic Leadership Matters, delivering consulting services in ethical leadership development and broader aviation and Defence services. He is also the Chair of the Board of Westpac Rescue Helicopters-Northern NSW and an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Business, Government and Law at University of Canberra. John holds a graduate degree in Economics and Information Systems, and a Master’s in Business Administration.

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Christine is a facilitator, executive coach and program designer who is passionate about supporting leaders to thrive in complex, high-pressure roles. As the founder of Front and Centred Leadership, Christine works with public, private and not-for-profit organisations in the fields of adult learning and program development. She is also a faculty member with the Cranlana Centre for Ethical Leadership at Monash University, and in 2026, will support the design and delivery of the prestigious Vincent Fairfax Fellowship and the inaugural Constructive Institute Asia Pacific Hub (CIAPH) Fellowship.
Christine has held senior positions within several Australian Government agencies, including Director of Executive Development Programs for the Australian Institute of Police Management (AIPM), National Media Director for the Australian Federal Police (AFP), and communications advisor with the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC). Christine’s career began in broadcast journalism, working for several years as a radio and TV reporter within regional NSW and Canberra.

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Jacqueline is an experienced venture capital company director, executive and practicing lawyer.
Jacqueline has deep knowledge in corporate ethics, having recently completed a Master of Arts (Professional and Applied Ethics) at the University of Melbourne. She also has degrees in Law and Economics.
Jacqueline’s focus on corporate ethics also draws on wide experience in banking, as a lawyer for a top-tier law firm, as Strategy Manager for the Victorian Bar and, for eight years, as a director in the venture capital industry.

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Dr Cressida Gaukroger is a philosopher, ethicist and policy advisor. She is a Senior Policy Advisor at the Centre for Policy Development working on how to put wellbeing at the centre of government decision making. She has been a lecturer in Practical Ethics at Oxford University, and has taught philosophy and ethics at University College London and New York University.
Dr Gaukroger often writes for Australian media including The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, and the ABC, and has appeared on the ABC’s The Minefield podcast and on ABC television and radio.

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Carl recently retired from the Australian Public Service. His most recent role was as the Chief Operating Officer of the Commonwealth Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities. Carl spent the first 15 years of his career at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (including overseas postings to Jakarta and Wellington) and the Office of National Assessments. Since then he has worked in corporate roles at IBM, Medicare, and the Departments of Environment and Finance. He has a BA (Hons) from the University of Sydney and a Master of Public Administration from the University of Canberra, and is a CPA. As well as working for Cranlana, Carl does consulting work, including to the Australian Public Service. As a condition of his marriage, he barracks for the Geelong Cats. He divides his time between Canberra and Austinmer.

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Sarah Sheppard is the Chief Executive Officer of the Essential Services Commission, Victoria’s economic regulator of essential services. Sarah has extensive experience in senior leadership roles across the Victorian and Commonwealth public sectors including at the Victorian Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and Commonwealth Treasury.
Sarah has degrees in law and arts from the University of Adelaide and started her career as a competition and consumer lawyer at Clayton Utz in Sydney. Sarah now lives in Melbourne’s north with her 13 year old West Highland Terrier, Norman.

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Frank Di Giorgia is a Moderator at Cranlana Centre for Ethical Leadership. He led a 30-year career in the Australian Public Service including extensive periods in the Senior Executive Service. He served as a General Manager and Principal Adviser in the Commonwealth Treasury in a range of roles, including as Secretary to the Treasury Executive Board.
Frank joined Treasury as a Graduate, but also had extensive experience in other departments, including Finance and in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
Upon leaving the public service he retrained as a Counsellor/Therapist and now delivers executive leadership training, counselling and coaching services.
Frank holds post graduate qualifications in Counselling and Psychotherapy with a focus on Group and individual counselling, as well as mindfulness informed cognitive behaviour therapy. Frank also holds a Bachelor’s degree (Honours) in Economics and Psychology, and has undertaken post graduate studies in Classics.

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Rhys Edwards is a consultant and board director working with governments, universities, social enterprise and the private sector to create new models for change and growth.
Rhys had a long career in government including six years as Secretary of the Department of Premier and Cabinet in Tasmania. Rhys is currently an honorary senior research fellow at the LH Martin Institute at Melbourne University and Chair of UTAS InVent an early-stage commercialisation company. In the not for profit sector Rhys is a director on the national Foyer Foundation working to develop housing solutions for youth at risk of homelessness and a director, Blue Economy CRC, a company dedicated to addressing the challenges of offshore renewable energy and food production.
Rhys is a Rhodes Scholar, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a Salzburg Global Fellow and a member of the Economics Society of Australia.

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Peter has been working with Cranlana Centre for Ethical Leadership since 2013, and was program director from 2018 to 2022. He has a background in journalism and public policy and is the author of three books: No Place Like Home: Repairing Australia’s Housing Crisis (Text, 2018); Not Quite Australian: how temporary migration is changing the nation (Text, 2016) and Borderline (UNSW Press 2001), an award-winning analysis of Australia’s approach to refugees and asylum seekers.
Peter spent 25 years as a broadcaster with the ABC, serving as a foreign correspondent hosting weekly and daily national radio programs. Peter is a regular contributor to Inside Story magazine and an adjunct research fellow at Monash University’s School of Media, Film and Journalism..

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As a Principal, Rebecca Cody frames her responsibilities in terms of Chief Educator, Learner, Strategist, Coach and Ambassador. Across two decades she has taught and led schools in Tasmania, Western Australia, New Zealand and Victoria.
In 2012 Rebecca received a WA Business News 40-under-40 award for her change management at Methodist Ladies’ College, Claremont, and was the University of Western Australia’s Strategic Alliance winner. Commencing in 2018, Rebecca is the first woman and first Australian-born to be offered the privilege of leading the iconic Geelong Grammar School.
Cuddles with her children, Japanese green tea and literary classics are Rebecca’s favourite indulgences.

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Travers is Executive Director of the Brotherhood of St. Laurence (BSL), a social justice organisation that works to prevent and alleviate poverty across Australia. Prior to this role, he was CEO of the Centre for Policy Development, an independent Australian policy institute, for eight years. Travers began his career in public law, working for the State Solicitor’s Office in Western Australia and for Justice Michael Kirby in the High Court of Australia. He holds a DPhil and MPhil(Dist) in International Relations from Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes scholar, and was a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations. He worked as a Policy Adviser for the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford, playing a lead role in the 2013 report Now for the Long Term. Travers’ first book, Rule of Law in War, was published by Oxford University Press in 2015. He remains an Associate of the Oxford Martin School and holds adjunct positions at the University of Melbourne and the University of Western Australia. He is a board member of the Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture. Travers is married to a Kiwi, and they have two young daughters. He grew up in Exmouth and Perth, and remains devoted to the West Coast Eagles.

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Sue has spent the last decade as a senior executive advising the Commonwealth government on national security, criminal justice, and international law. She has worked internationally at the United Nations in Egypt, Bhutan, and in Sudan and has represented Australia at the UN in New York as a diplomat. Most recently, in 2023, she led the Integrity Taskforce in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet which developed integrity and ethical leadership recommendations currently being implemented across the Australian Public Service.
Sue works one-on-one with senior leaders, emerging leaders, and those making the transition to complex decision-making environments where new thinking and skills are required. She has worked with individuals and teams across the public and private sectors to grow the mindset and behaviours necessary for transition to senior executive roles.