Program

Program

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Dr Dan Billing

Dan Billing works within the Human Protection and Performance Division (HPPD) of Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO). Dr Billing leads a major research program to establish occupationally-specific and scientifically valid Physical Employment Standards (PES) for the Australian Defence Force. Dan completed a PhD and Postdoc through Centre (CRC) for Micro Technology and Swinburne University of Technology. This research involved the development and application of miniature sensor systems to monitor the performance of elite athletes in the training and competition environment.

Mr Neil Craig

Neil Craig is a former Australian rules footballer.
In 1997, he took up the position of fitness adviser and assistant coach in the AFL with Adelaide Crows. He is credited with helping devise the fitness regime that led the Crows to back-to-back premierships in 1997 and 1998 in which players are trained harder to reach peak fitness during finals matches.

He took over the senior coaching position in 2004 as caretaker when Gary Ayres left the Adelaide Football Club after round 13. He was then appointed for the 2005 season, leading the Crows to their first minor premiership and a preliminary final in his first full season as a senior coach. Under Craig
the Crows have reached the major round for five consecutive years, for a finals coaching record of three wins and six losses.

Dr Damian Farrow

Dr. Damian Farrow was appointed as the inaugural Skill Acquisition Specialist at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) in 2002 and is currently Head of Discipline for Psychology and Skill Acquisition. He has provided skill acquisition support to a wide range of AIS/NSO programs.
While he grew up barracking for the Hawthorn Hawks, since 2005 he has provided skill acquisition support to the Adelaide Crows, something he is only just coming to terms with! He is also co-author of three general interest sports science books "Run Like You Stole Something", "Why Dick Fosbury Flopped" and "It's True: Sport Stinks".

Mr Michael Flynn

1st February 2009 - TA/AIS Triathlon National Performance Director 1st January 2007 - 31st January 2009 - UCI manager of Global Development 1st January 2005 - 31st December 2007 - Bike New Zealand National Performance Director 1st March 1997 - 31st December 2004 - Cycling Australia High Performance Manager 1st January 1996 - 28th February 1997 - Diving Australia High Performance Manager 1st January 1990 - 31st December 1995 - SASI Coaching Coordinator 1st January 1983 - 31st December 1989 - North Adelaide Football Club Football Manager

Section Manager Cycling for 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games and 1998 and 2002 Commonwealth Games for Australia. Section Manager for 2006 Commonwealth Games for New Zealand.
Attended the 1996 Olympic Games with Diving.

I just love Sport at all levels. If I was not doing the job I am doing I would like to be a Full time coach.

Mr Graeme Joy

Graeme Joy is one of the most focused, effective and highly ranked motivational speakers in Australasia. He is perhaps best known as joint leader and navigator of the International North Pole Expedition where he became the first and only Australian to ski to the North Pole. He subsequently ski-sailed alone to the Magnetic North Pole becoming, once again, the first and only Australian to do so. He has also led expeditions to Mount McKinley (Denali) in Alaska, Mount Vinson in Antarctica, Mount Kilimanjaro in Kenya, across the Australian desert, and kayaking in Greenland and Bass Strait.

In his lectures, seminars and training programs Graeme draws striking parallels between success in expeditions and success in business. Few people are better placed to articulate the importance of leadership styles, effective decision-making, winning performance and highly motivated teams.

A qualified facilitator of numerous corporate leadership and team development programmes, Graeme's presentations are always highly praised by clients for their business applicability, take-home value and delivery of their key results. Exciting visuals support Graeme's presentations. Based on client feedback, Graeme Joy consistently rates as one of our top three speakers, a statistic testament to his phenomenal rapport with any manner of audience.

Graeme Joy is much in demand as a keynote, conference or motivational speaker, and equally at home as a teambuilding speaker or facilitator.

Ms Janet Karin

Ms Janet Karin

A former Principal Dancer of The Australian Ballet, Janet devised her own teaching system and trained many outstanding dancers, choreographers and teachers in Canberra before joining The Australian Ballet School in 2001. Janet is a Board member of the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science, sits on its Education Committee and is Chair of the Resource Paper and Poster sub-committees.

Janet's work as Kinetic Educator focuses on refining movement efficiency through imagery and tactile feedback. She has received awards for direction, teaching and services to dance, including the Medal of the Order of Australia.

Prof Keith Lyons

Prof Keith Lyons

Keith has been involved in high performance sport since the late 1970s. He came to Australia in 2002 to join the staff at the Australian Institute of Sport. He is currently the Director of the National Institute of Sports Studies at the University of Canberra.

Mr Andrew Matheson

National High Performance Director National Rowing Centre of Excellence
Rowing Australia - Australian Institute of Sport
Aged 40, New Zealander, former national rower, previously worked in sales and marketing in multinationals, spent 6 years as High Performance Manager for Rowing New Zealand. Currently the National High Performance Director for the National Rowing Centre of Excellence (NRCE), and have been in this role for 1 year.

Mr Gavin Reynolds

Gavin Reynolds, joined the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) Information Centre in 1988 - which later became known as the National Sport Information Centre (NSIC) in 1989 after the amalgamation of AIS and Australian Sports Commission (ASC).

Working from within the NSIC, Gavin was instrumental in establishing AIS's audio visual capability with a strong emphasis on coach and athlete technology applications. Gavin was one of the founding members of the AIS Performance Analysis Unit, and has been responsible for successfully leading
a number of AIS technology initiatives.

Today, Gavin manages the NSIC, providing a national focus on sport information for Australia's leading sport scientists, coaches, athletes and administrators.

Mr Michael Scott

Mr Michael Scott

Michael commenced in the role of National Performance Director in October 2007 and since that time has lead the British Team to its most successful Olympics and World Championships in Beijing and Rome respectively. Michael is a former swimmer and coach within the US college system, has a Masters Degree in Sports Management and spent 4 years as the Director of the New South Wales Institute of Sport (1997-2001) and t4 years as the Director of the Australian Institute of Sport (2001-2005). Prior to commencing in his current position Michael was the CEO of the 12th FINA World Championships which were held in Melbourne in 2007.

Ms Wilma Shakespear

Wilma was the founding Director of two very successful high performance centres; the Queensland Academy of Sport in Australia (1991-2001) and the English Institute of Sport in the United Kingdom (2001-2007) Before overseeing the delivery of support to elite athletes Wilma played on and coached the Australian Netball team winning three world championships. In fact Wilma was the world's first professional coach of an elite netball program when she was appointed Head Coach at the Australian Institute of Sport 1981. At 26 she was the youngest national coach ever appointed by Australian Netball.
She is passionate about enhancing the role of women in Australian Sport and is a founding member of Womensport Queensland a group dedicated to raising the profile of the states' leading sports women. In 1991 she received the Order of Merit from the Australian Institute of Sport and the next year The Order of Australia Medal AM for service to sport, particularly Netball. In 2006 she was recognised as one of Australia's 100 global Australians by Advance Australia and invited back
home to Sydney to attend the first ever Summit in December .

Dr Gary Slater

Gary coordinates a masters degree in sports nutrition at the University of the Sunshine Coast while keeping his hand in the elite sport pie by continuing to consult to the Australian Rugby Union and a range of individual sport athletes. Prior to Gary's sea change earlier this he spent the majority of the past 15 years working & studying in elite sport both in Australia & overseas in sports nutrition & sports physiology...a jack of all trades, master of none! He's still coming to terms with the fact that he was paid to work in what ultimately is his passion & hobby...helping athletes achieve their sporting aspirations