Alumni Leaders

AGSM’s Alumni Mentor Program is a unique feature of the School’s MBA (Executive) program. It serves two purposes: first to provide support for learning syndicates that enable final year MBA (Executive) students to direct their own learning and development; and second, to engage alumni to contribute back to AGSM and to the students who follow them. ... read more

David Nevell has been a mechanical engineer and has had a career in middle management and now, after doing an MBA (Executive) at AGSM, he has become an entrepreneur. ... read more

Joining a great company or hooking up with a leading brand is no longer the key criterion for the savvy knowledge worker when assessing his or her next career move. ... read more

For Christine Wallace, her AGSM MBA was part of a process of “exercising and ultimately exorcising” a lifelong fascination with business and economics. ... read more

AGSM not only gave Glen Foster and David Williams a valuable part of their business education, but it was where they met each other and became business partners. ... read more

Dr. Graham Hellestrand is one of Austalia’s most distinguished academics and computer engineers who also happens to be a graduate of AGSM. ... read more

Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) is in George Lawson’s genes. So it was natural for him to move into that sector as an entrepreneur after completing his MBA. ... read more

AGSM Professor of Marketing, John Roberts, presented to AGSM Alumni in London and Singapore and says he enjoyed seeing how alumni had spread their influence through the international business community. ... read more

AGSM has developed an Alumni Mentoring Program to help students navigate what may prove the trickiest challenge of their degree and prepare them for what may be their greatest challenge in a corporate environment. Here the program’s mentors talk about the highs and lows of being a mentor for MBA (Executive) students completing the intensive final year of the program (Executive Year). ... read more

The AGSM Alumni Mentoring Program has grown dramatically since its inception in 2002. What attracts these busy, high-powered senior managers from some of Australia’s largest companies to volunteer their time? ... read more

There are certain beliefs in everybody’s life that gather to form an overarching, unified structure, which in turn directs their activities. While most people have a fuzzy idea of the backbone of their beliefs, for AGSM alumnus Sonny Navaratnam, they are clear: leadership, entrepreneurship and contribution. ... read more

Lynn Wood was going through some of her AGSM papers recently, and realised once again the contribution her MBA education had made to her career. ... read more

AGSM Alumni are putting into practice on a daily basis the philosophies and methodologies learned at AGSM. ... read more

The top flight of business schools, says Matthew Stubbs, are a product not only of the quality of students and faculty, but the continuing involvement of the alumni. ... read more

The nine AGSM alumni featured in the inaugural BRW ‘Upstarts’ list run businesses ranging from software to fashion to consulting to careers, but these leading young entrepreneurs have one thing in common – they all say their AGSM education has been a major influence on their business strategies. ... read more