CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Professor Gary Martin is a thought leader on business management, leadership, and employee learning and development. A former academic, Gary is a highly regarded CEO, board director, newspaper columnist and social influencer.

With a strong insight into how to effectively educate people from all industries, Gary speaks to audiences about workplace trends and issues including remote working, ageism and bullying, and the rise of emotional intelligence.

Gary commenced as CEO and Executive Director of the Australian Institute of Management in Western Australia (AIM WA) at the beginning of 2012.  In this role, he has overall responsibility for leading all aspects of the Institute's business, which is focussed on building leadership and management capability both in Australia and internationally, and across the corporate, government, not-for-profit and community sectors.

He currently serves on the boards of the Council for Ageing Western Australia (COTA WA) and Volunteering Western Australia.  He is a former Chair of Telethon Speech and Hearing (TSH) in Perth, and Study Perth.

Prior to his appointment to AIM WA, Gary held several executive level appointments at Murdoch University in Western Australia, including Executive Dean, Pro Vice Chancellor, Deputy Vice Chancellor and Senior Deputy Vice Chancellor.

Gary has considerable expertise in leadership and management development.  As a regular columnist in The West Australian, Sunday Times and Perth Now as well as several mastheads in the Eastern States he discusses current and emerging workplace matters.

He was made a Fellow of the Australian College of Education in 2015, and is currently an Emeritus Professor of Murdoch University's Business School and Zhejiang University of Technology (Zhejiang Province, China), as well as Honorary Professor at Guangdong University of Business Studies (Guangdong Province, China).