About Cranlana
Cranlana Centre for Ethical Leadership
Across our nation, it is our leaders – in business, community and government – who set the tone for how society operates and the values we live by.
Cranlana Centre for Ethical Leadership is dedicated to building better leaders. By sharpening critical reasoning and ethical thinking, we help high-level decision-makers better see the bigger picture on any issue they face.
Since 1993, thousands of Australian leaders have experienced Cranlana’s unique approach to leadership development across our many programs, including the Executive Colloquium and the Vincent Fairfax Fellowship.
We’re here to build better communities – by strengthening wisdom and ethical courage in our leadership.
Cranlana Centre for Ethical Leadership is Monash University, The Myer Foundation and Vincent Fairfax Ethics in Leadership Foundation working in partnership.
Our History
First established in 1993 by the Myer Foundation, the Cranlana Programme was created to promote informed discussion about responsible, ethical leadership. Inspired by the Aspen Institute in the United States, and recognising that there was too great a focus on management and not enough on leading, Ken Myer and Michael Liffman collaborated to create a course that would inspire a new generation of Australian luminaries to take a new approach to leadership.
Today’s Cranlana Centre for Ethical Leadership is the result of a collaboration between the original Cranlana Programme and another highly prominent Australian ethical leadership course – the Vincent Fairfax Fellowship, founded by the Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation and members of the Fairfax family.
The beneficiary of two legendary Australian families’ foresight and generosity, the Cranlana Centre brings more than a half-century of combined leadership experience to bear in cultivating an ethical focus among Australia’s leaders.
In 2019 the organisation partnered with Monash University, Australia’s largest higher education institution, providing an essential opportunity to reach an even wider cohort of current and future leaders across the nation – and deepening its contribution to building better, more ethically driven leadership.
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Board
Patron
The Honourable Linda Dessau AC
Directors
Gail Hambly
Anna Spraggett
Leonard Vary
Jenny Wheatley
Professor Susan Elliott AM
Professor Bryan Horrigan
Professor Jo Lindsay
Our Staff

Vanessa Pigrum
Chief Executive Officer

Peter Mares
Lead Moderator

Peter Collins
Program Director, Vincent Fairfax Fellowship

Caroline Gibson
Director, Client Relations

Brittany Pullen
Program Manager

Susannah Goddard
Manager, Marketing and Communications

Sabah Quddus
Business Manager

Lis Kennish
Manager, Client Relations



Carl Murphy
Moderator

Rebecca Cody
Moderator

Rhys Edwards
Moderator

Travers McLeod
Moderator

Dr Jean Ker Walsh
Moderator

Frank Di Giorgio
Moderator

Genevieve Nihill
Moderator

Emma Greenwood
Moderator

Dr David Neal SC
Moderator