
She began her career in employee development and then specialised in leadership development before focussing further on the development of leaders, and the role of HE in achieving this. She is currently Executive Director, Learning Innovations Hub at University of New England and specialises in developing new ways of working within HE, new curriculum, and new pedagogic endeavours. BLASS is a foresight leader in Higher Education. She continues to learn from Elders and grandchildren and sees ‘Respect’ to be at the core of collaboration and the future. Janette values most highly, learning with and from native peoples, especially Aboriginal peoples in Australia. She has given seminars in New Zealand and Switzerland. Her work has taken her to cities, towns and communities in Australia countries in the Pacific Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Hawaii, Fiji and Japan. She has worked with people of different ages and abilities and from different cultural backgrounds. Her work and learning experiences have taken her into families, communities and villages, into education and health institutions, bureaucracies and private and public sector business. Janette’s passion for ‘learning’ has been the driving force in her life and her career in education, beginning mid 1960s. colleagues call JANETTE BLAINEY ‘sister’ or ‘aunty’. She is currently based in an Independent Quaker school in North Somerset in the UK, serving as Director of Peace and Global Studies. In addition to teaching and designing both postgraduate and undergraduate programmes at Exeter, Jackie codirected the One Planet MBA joining a team of inspired colleagues all focussed on changing the face of management education. This six year project focussed on developing leadership capacity in organisations across sectors such as health, education, sport, arts and commercial business.

She joined the Centre for Leadership Studies at the University of Exeter in 2003 where she launched ‘Leadership Southwest’ a regional centre of excellence for leadership. an academic background in Social Psychology and a leadership development background centred on complexity, action learning and enquiry, JACQUELINE BAGNALL enjoyed ten years based at the University of Exeter Business School. Anders has throughout his career been deeply engaged in issues of human development, social justice and economic and environmental sustainability – always with an explicit international outlook. He is also Secretary General, the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative (GRLI), Professor at Tongji School of Economics and Management, Affiliated Professor at CENTRUM Graduate Business School, and chairman of the Advisory Board of Turku School of Economics. He has been and is active as chairman, board member and senior adviser to numerous boards and organisations in Sweden and internationally, including the European Foundation for Management Development. He served as president and dean of the Swedish Institute of Management – today IFL at the SSE, as dean of Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School/Vlerick Business School, Belgium, Senior Vice President and member of the Executive Board of Siab/NCC, Sweden, and Senior Partner of the ForeSight Group, Sweden. ANDERS ASPLING received his masters in economics and business administration and his doctorate degree in business administration at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE).
