Invited Guest / Speaking Engagements

 

University Scene

• Invited speaker at the Breakfast event of the 2021 THRIVE CONFERENCE of the Australia Association of Physiotherapists

• Women Finding Success podcast- Episode 8 – Associate Professor Remi Ayoko 2021

 
 

• Leadership trends for 2021- UQ Business School

• Invited Speaker, Global Connection 2.0 webinar: "The future of work: How the COVID disruption is accelerating changes"- 2020

• Invited Speaker, Psychology Symposium – 2017

• Invited Commentator on Organisational Politics. Spoke on “How to deal with office politics and come out on top” in the Executive Style. Jun 15, 2017.

• Invited speaker, “Leading is about serving: Servant leadership, emotions and conflict management” A talk delivered at the UQ and Surf Life Saving Queensland (SLSQ) Leadership Excellence Program on the 9th of July, 2016. The program specifically targets active life savers across Queensland aged 18-30 years who aspire to become leaders and want to develop both personally and professionally. The one day event was opening by the UQ Vice Chancellor- Professor Peter Høj

• Invited Speaker, Unleashing your negotiation skills, Talk delivered at the “Negotiating skills for career progression for women's program” organised by UQ for women Senior Lecturers (2011). 

• Member, UQ Senate Standing Committee on Cultural and Linguistic Diversity (2004-2006) University of Queensland Staff Representative (Academic and Research). I was a Discussant/Panellist on “Multiculturalism and our University today” Diversity Soap Box Forum organised by UQ Equity Office for the University Community. 

• Member, Cultural and Linguistic Diversity and Indigenous Australians (CALDIA) Sub-Committee of the UQ Senate Committee. My major contribution was to raise awareness of UQ senate members through the CALDIA sub-committee to the literature on covert discrimination and particularly the outcomes of my own research in the area cultural diversity in teams. Based on the raised awareness, a lunch time discussion on Covert Discrimination was mounted involving people across all works of life at UQ (2007- 2008). 

• Invited Speaker “Becoming an effective supervisor” TEDI, University of Queensland, St Lucia (2002). Spoke on how culture impacts student-supervisor relationship

• Invited Guest Lecturer, “Diversity and Leadership” Presentation to the Master of Education Students of the School of Education, University of Queensland, “Managing Diverse Teams” to the Queensland Local Government Staff(2003). 

• Invited Guest Speaker, UQ Psychology Symposium, The University of Queensland,(2002) Spoke on leadership and conflict management

National Scene

  • AJM Future of Work Interview with Victoria Clout

  • ANZAM Online: Reviewing for JMO

• Lead the organising team for the 2016 ANZAM Doctoral Workshop, My responsibilities included: • Successfully persuaded UQBS Head of school to sponsor the workshop 

 Prepared the budget 

Successfully persuaded ANZAM board to include the Research pitches in the doctoral workshop for the first time in the history of ANZAM doctoral workshop 

Organised and led the pitch committee of judges to evaluate the pitches and select awardees 

Organised the awardees to present pitches 

Awarded certificates and prizes to Pitch winners

• Board member, Australian & New Zealand Academy of Management (2014-2015). ANZAM is the premier organisation for management educators in Australia and New Zealand. This role involves leading and making strategic decisions about issues affecting ANZAM members and management education in Australia and New Zealand. While on the ANZAM board, I was secretary to the Board. 

As part of my duties while on the board, I led and co-organized national and regional workshops targeting RHD students and Early Careers members of ANZAM (2014-2015) for increased retention. I was also involved in giving feedback to the RHD students on their papers and research proposals and I have made rewarding friendship with students over the Tasman Sea. 

• Associate Editor (2015 till date), Journal of Management and Organization (JMO). JMO is one of the leading journals for Management Education in Australia. 

• Invited by Australian Research Council as an assessor and expert of international standing in my field (2010). 

• RHD External thesis examination • “Development of a framework of improvisation for team performance in the Chinese context”. A PhD thesis of UNISA (examined 2015) 

• “Understanding employee petty theft: a constructivist grounded theory study of the interplay between employees, authority figures and the environment” A PhD thesis of UNISA (examined 2016). 

• “Is Motivation a factor of Emotional Intelligence?” Master’s thesis of the Graduate School, Griffith University, Nathan Campus (2004) 
 

International Scene

• 2014 Program Chair – 27th International Association of Conflict Management Conference, Netherlands. In this role, I led an international team in putting together a program of activities for the conference. 

• Invited Panel of Discussant of the International Association of Conflict Management: Negotiating your first job offer. Presented at the US Academy of Management Conference, San Antonio, August, (2011). 

• Editorial Board Member, Negotiation and Conflict Management Research (NCMR), one of the premier outlets for conflict management research (2011 till date). 

• Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Conflict Management (IJCM) - One of the premiere outlets for conflict management research (2010 till date). 

• Reviewer - Journal of Organizational Behavior (A* Journal for 3 years ) 

• Adhoc Reviewer: Human Relations (A* Journal) 

• Adhoc Reviewer: Academy of Management Review

• Adhoc reviewer : Group & Organization Management (ABDC A Journal) 

• Invited Reviewer, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Applied Psychology: An International Review (APAIR), 

• Invited reviewer European Journal of Management (EMJ) (2007-2011) 

• Invited reviewer Journal of Management (2007) (ABDC A* Journal) 

• External Research Grant Assessor, “Territoriality in organizations” Hampton Research Fund, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (2004). 

• Organiser of Symposium “Resolving the Puzzle of Workplace Diversity: What have emotions got to do?” Symposium submitted to the 64th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM), New Orleans. Nine academics (including 3 professors) from 3 top Australian and American Universities participated in this symposium (2004). 

• Academy of Management GDO invited Speaker, “Playing well with others: the secrets of Collaboration from a personal experience”. Presented at the PhD Consortium for the Gender and Diversity in Organization (GDO) Division of the US Academy of Management Conference Washington DC (2001). 

Community/ Engagement Scene

• Invited panellist, Council for Young Africans Living Abroad (CYALA) first meeting, 25th of Sept, 2015. I told my life story as a migrant and a mother, my role as a management educator to inspire the young Africans living abroad. 

• Invited keynote address speaker on “productivity, territories, wellbeing and the workplace at “Design Speaks: Workplace/Worklife conference”” organised by Australasian architects and designers. Melbourne 15th July, 2014

• Invited Facilitator for the Queensland Servant Leadership Youth Forum- Role: Team Facilitator of Youth Forum Attendees meeting with QLD Parliamentarians and Community Members (2011). 

• Invited Guest Speaker to the Toowong Business Community- presented on “Conflict, Apology and Forgiveness: Should Leaders Forgive?” (2008). 

• Invited Guest Speaker to the TELSTRA Virtual Women Network, QLD- presented on “Working with differences in Teams: What have we learnt?” (2008).