Craig Fowler

Dr Craig Fowler’s diverse experience in Public Administration and Higher Education in Executive roles makes him exceptionally well qualified to reflect on the topic of diversity in career experience and its potential benefits for senior executive service (SES) leadership in the public sector.

Recent articles by Craig Fowler

Productivity and innovation needs business' own investment in skills

Productivity and innovation needs business' own investment in skills

Despite a modest increase in business R&D expenditure in Australia in the latest reported year (2023/24), Australia’s performance on a GDP basis is still woefully worse than its international economic competitors.

Would greater diversity of career experience benefit SES public sector leadership?

Would greater diversity of career experience benefit SES public sector leadership?

Are you: a better coach for having played the game at highest level; a superior baron of a media corporation if you started as a desk journalist; a smarter tech billionaire for having cut code; an out-performing venture capitalist if once a failed entrepreneur; a far-sighted head of NASA if you journeyed as an astronaut; or a more compassionate general if you had combat experience?