Contacts & Bios
Workplace Research Centre development programs are co-delivered, where appropriate, with external subject experts.
Seymour Maddison, CAHRI
Position: Manager, Professional Development and Training, Workplace Research Centre
Phone: 02 9351 5717
Email: s.maddison@econ.usyd.edu.au
Phone: 02 9351 5717
Email: s.maddison@econ.usyd.edu.au
Seymour oversees all professional development delivered by the Workplace Research Centre. A background in human resource management has included roles with a strong IR and employee relations focus, as well as more generalist HR responsibilities. He has extensive experience working in private, not-for-profit and public sectors, in Europe and in Australia, including in strategy & management consulting, government, employment assistance, manufacturing, equity & disability, and tertiary education. Seymour's professional passion is devising highly experiential and applied learning and development programs. He has wide experience designing, facilitating and delivering to adult learners, from job seekers with a disability to senior managers
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John Stanton
Position: Partner, Australian Business Lawyers John is a nationally-accredited trainer and assessor who has been involved in workplace relations since 1985. He specialises in providing strategic industrial and employment law advice, including in relation to occupational health and safety obligations, compliance and investigations into workplace accidents and injuries.
An experienced advocate with in-house experience also as a workplace relations advisor, John has represented employers with prosecuting authorities and in state and federal tribunals. In doing so he has been principal advocate in several noteworthy industrial cases, as well as in various award matters. His wide experience spans industries including pharmaceutical, building and construction, health, local government, transport and distribution, hospitality, printing, retail and manufacturing.
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Siobhan Flores-Walsh
Position: Partner, Australian Business Lawyers
Siobhan regularly conducts seminars and skills' workshops on subjects including employment, workplace relations and occupational health and safety issues. She is a contributing author of the CCH publication The Australian Master Human Resources Guide.
Siobhan has worked in employment law and industrial relations for 18 years, with first-tier law firms, a large media organisation and in the oil industry, in human resources in-house legal roles. She has also worked on secondment as a prosecutor dealing with breaches of industrial legislation and instruments. Siobhan has a significant litigation background in common law courts, industrial tribunals and in the defence of occupational health and safety prosecutions. Her experience in all aspects of workplace relations includes advising on appropriate forms of industrial regulations, outsourcing, harassment and discrimination, OH&S compliance, post-employment restraints, executive contracts, policy, incentive schemes and superannuation.
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Sharlene Wellard Position: Partner, Australian Business Lawyers Prior to joining Australian Business Lawyers in 2000, Sharlene spent five years advising and representing employers in the hospitality industry on a broad range of industrial relations, employment services and training issues. Since then, she has acted for employers in industries including manufacturing, pharmaceutical, clerical and retail. Sharlene is an experienced advocate, advising and representing clients in industrial relations and employment law including industrial disputes, enterprise agreements, underpayment claims, unfair contracts and unfair dismissals. She also provides strategic advice to employers managing workplace change, including in the areas of restructuring, redundancies, drafting and implementing policies and employment contracts. In August 2005, Sharlene was elected to the Executive Committee of the Industrial Relations Society of New South Wales and is currently the Secretary.
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Geoff McGill Position: Visiting Industry Scholar, Workplace Research Centre
Geoff McGill has had more than 35 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, international labour standards 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.
Now an independent consultant, Geoff has been working with companies in the mining and resources sector across
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