Our people

Ian has had a longstanding personal and professional interest in the not-for-profit sector. His work in recent years with organisations such as the Koorie Business Network has given him insight into the challenges that organizations grapple with in establishing social enterprises and encouraging diversity in employment practices.

Extensive work with the business community provides him with a strong platform to broker and develop cross-sector partnerships and collaborations and as a result of his contributions to the school's executive education leadership program, he has the expertise to work across sectors with students and faculty to promote and support leadership for social impact.

Ian joined MBS in July 2006 as associate professor, and has since been active in teaching, researching and consulting on the international stage.

Jan Cochrane-Harry
Jan is Director Strategic Marketing and Partnerships, and adviser to the Asia Pacific Centre for Leadership for Social Impact at Melbourne Business School, where she has worked since 2005. Jan's prior experience has included 10 years in government (Housing, Community Services and Tourism), 10 years in the community sector, and 10 years in the private sector (the final five as Head of Philanthropic Foundations at Perpetual). Jan chairs a philanthropic foundation and is a director of the Melbourne Lord Mayors Charitable Foundation. She has an MBA from the University of Melbourne.

Liz Gillies
Liz Gillies has had over 20 years experience in a range of fields that complement working for social impact. She has held positions at multinational corporation, Hoechst Australia, the Victorian Farmers Federation, Deakin University, the Parliament of Victoria and the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust. Areas of expertise include public relations, industrial relations, lobbying and advocacy, senior management, strategic planning, policy development and grant making and philanthropy. Liz joined the Melbourne Business School
in March 2009.

Jill Klein
Professor of Marketing, Jill Klein received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Michigan in 1990. During the following seven years she was a member of faculty in the Marketing Department at Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, and spent periods as Visiting Professor at Bond University School of Business, Queensland, Australia, Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland and The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. From 1997 through 2008 she was on the faculty at INSEAD.

Jill Klein's teaching specialties are Decision-Making, Social Competence, Marketing Management, Consumer Behavior, Advertising/Marketing Communications and Marketing Research. Her research interests are consumer boycotts, corporate social responsibility, and international marketing, including the effects of international hostility on consumer perceptions of foreign products. She has had articles published in the Journal of Marketing, Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Management Science, the Journal of International Business Studies and the British Medical Journal.

Robert Burke
Robert's focus is leadership within a futures context - challenging managers to think outside of the known and to consider alternative perspectives. Robert uses methods and approaches that enable innovative responses for reconsidering the purpose of organisations, and how senior managers might create more dignified and sustainable outcomes for their organisations and for our broader society.

Dr Robert Burke discusses why it makes good sense for businesses to pursue their sustainability strategies in the current economic climate.

Carol Gill
Carol's current research and teaching interests in Leadership focus on the development of psychological capital or "who you are", as opposed to human capital (what you know) and social capital (who you know). She is interested in helping leaders develop authenticity through understanding themselves; owning their personal experiences; and acting in a manner consistent with their true self through ‘mindful' leadership practices.

Jody Evans
Dr Jody Evans professional expertise and research interests include international marketing, branding and retailing. Her current projects examine a range of issues including branding and retail strategy in the museum sector, a resource-based view of retail competitive advantage and performance, drivers and impediments to international retail involvement, brand orientation in the retail sector and brand strategy in buyer-supplier relationships.

Jody has consulting and executive development experience in the retail sector and has worked with client organisations in the UK and Australia. Among the kinds of projects she leads are market research, strategic reviews and management development seminars and workshops.

Before joining MBS, Jody was Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Retailing and Marketing at Manchester Metropolitan University Business School. She has also worked at the Australian Centre for Retail Studies, where she was involved in a range of research and consulting projects for leading retailers in the Asia-Pacific region.