Team members
Professor Robert Wood
Director, Centre for Ethical Leadership
GEP Sponsor
Bob has designed, developed and delivered programs for senior leaders and provided advice in many Australian and overseas corporations, including ANZ Bank, McDonald’s Australia, Qantas, Saudi Aramco, Dow Chemical, Telstra, P&O Ports, Dubai Ports World and the Hong Kong Government.
He has served on the Boards of Royal Perth Hospital, the AGSM and the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management and the University of Western Australia Senate. He currently sits on the Executive Boards of the Academy of Social Sciences Australia and the International Association of Applied Psychology.
Prior appointments include Deputy Vice Chancellor at the University of Western Australia and visiting Professor at the Kellogg School, Northwestern University. He completed his PhD in organizational behaviour at the University of Washington (Seattle) and did post doctoral studies at Stanford University Psychology Department. He is Editor of Applied Psychology an International Review and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences - Australia, the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management; the American Psychological Association (Division 14) and the International Association of Applied Psychologists.
Dr Jennifer Whelan
Research Manager
As GEP Research Manager, Jennifer is responsible for the management and implementation of the research program, and is the key liaison person for all research partners.
Jennifer completed her PhD in social psychology at the University of Melbourne after extensive experience working in human resource ,management . She has since worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow and Research Associate on a range of research projects in the Department of Psychology, and at Melbourne Business School. Her areas of research strength include the social psychological process implicated in group identity, political judgement and decision-making, stereotyping and prejudice, attitude change, automatic social cognition, and unconscious bias. She has published research on emotion regulation, attitudes towards migrants and national identity, and psychological essentialism.
Since joining the Accelerated Learning Laboratory, Jennifer has designed and managed research projects on the role of dynamic personality factors on complex task performance using experience sampling methodologies, and contributed to meta-analytic work on goals and strategy use. She is currently undertaking a review and meta-analysis of research and practice in the area of targets and quotas for women in leadership
