Geoff McGill

Geoff holds a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) degree from Monash University. Geoff has had more than 30 years experience in employee relations, human resource management and organisational change in the public and private sectors. This has included more than 15 years in senior policy roles for the Australian Government in wages policy and labour market reform and the next twenty years in the private sector. In 1988 he left the Australian Public Service to participate in the Business Council of Australia’s Employee Relations Study Group which led to the publication of the breakthrough report entitled ‘Enterprise Based Bargaining’. In 1989 Geoff began an 11 year association with CRA Ltd (now Rio Tinto) where he held the positions of Chief Adviser Employee Relations, CRA Group, General Manager Organisation, Southern Copper Ltd and Chief Consultant Organisation Effectiveness, Comalco Group. At the beginning of 2000 he joined the Commonwealth Bank Group as Head of Leadership Systems and Research in Group Human Resources. He held a number of executive general manager roles in Group Human Resources in the CBA with accountability for leadership development, employee relations policy and strategy, OH & S and organisation and work design across the Bank. Since 2005, Geoff has been working with companies in the mining and resources sector across Australia, with a not for profit organisation in Alice Springs, the Australian Rail Association Rail and in Oman in the Middle East. This work has included advice on employee relations strategy, systems design and leadership development. In addition to his consulting work he has also taken up the position of Visiting Industry Scholar at the Workplace Research Centre attached to Sydney University where he is continuing his research in the fields of organisation effectiveness, employee engagement and workplace change.