Dallas Hanson has recently retired from his position as Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management at the University of Tasmania. He has presented papers at a number of conferences and has also published in a wide variety of journals, including Prometheus, the European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Sociology, Corporate Reputation Review, Greener Management International, Australian Journal of Social Issues, Journal of Risk Research, Scandinavian Journal of Management, Australian Journal of Environmental Management and Accounting and Auditing and Accountability Journal. Dallas has been a senior bureaucrat in several public service organisations, a teacher and a social researcher. His research interests include the areas of corporate governance, corporate rationality in communications and eco-tourism. In retirement, he has relocated to NSW and will be consulting and researching.

Professor Danny Samson began his professional life as a chemical engineer working in a multinational company and then completed a PhD in management. He has been Professor of Management at the University of Melbourne since 1998, serving also there as Head of Department and Associate Dean.

He has published over 100 research papers and a dozen books covering many aspects of management. His research covers fields from decision theory to supply chain and innovation management. He has consulted widely to executives in banking, insurance, manufacturing, construction, transport, and numerous other industries. He has served as Associated Editor for the most prestigious journal in his field, and has been a judge of numerous industry awards, having won such awards himself, as well as research best paper and teaching excellence awards in Australia, the USA and Europe.

He is well known as an executive educator, having developed and conducted dozens of executive programs and keynote addresses.