Ms Loretta O'Donnell

Qualifications

BA (Hons), Dip Ed, MBA (AGSM) AIMM

Teaching Areas

Leadership: Managing Change

Academic Experience

Since 1991, Loretta has taught Executive MBA students and created course material for the Executive MBA program at AGSM. She has also lectured in corporate sustainability, human resource management and change management for the Masters of Commerce program at UNSW. Loretta has written course material in organisational sustainability for the Masters of Business Technology degree at UNSW.

Professional Experience

Loretta is adjunct faculty at the Australian Graduate School of Management in the University of NSW. She is a director of Research 7 Pty Ltd. As well as teaching and researching in sustainable human capital analysis and systems for managing change, Loretta consults in human capital analysis and change management. Her clients include: university faculties, outsourcing firms, professional services firms, construction and building products companies and private schools. Prior to her academic work, Loretta was with Barraclough & Co. in North Sydney and with the international change management division of Accenture in Sydney and Chicago.

Research

Loretta's doctorate, in process, is on human capital issues within the Australian biotechnology industry.

Contribution to the Profession

Loretta has published a number of recognised works on management. In conjunction with Dr Carol Royal, she has presented papers at Oxford University on “A Knowledge Management Framework for Transparency on the Investment Process” and has presented a paper on systems thinking and human capital analysis at the University of Limerick in Ireland.

Selected Publications

Royal C and O’Donnell, L. “Human Capital Analysis in the Investment Markets, A Systems View”, European Conference on Knowledge Management Conference Proceedings, September, University of Limerick, Ireland.

Daneshgar F, Royal C and O’Donnell L. Representation of Human Capital Knowledge in Investment Processes, Investment Management and Financial Innovations, Volume 2(1), pp 158-163.

Royal C. and O'Donnell L. 'Embedding Human Capital Analysis in the Investment Process: A Challenge for Human Resources', Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resource Management. Vol. 43, No. 1.

Royal C. and O'Donnell, L. 'The Human Factor: Why it Matters', Banking and Financial Services Journal, Volume 123, No. 11 Melbourne, Australia, Dec 2003- January 2004.

Royal C., Daneshgar, F. and O'Donnell, L. 'Facilitating Organisational Sustainability Through Expert Investment Systems', Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 1, Issue 2, 2003, pp.167-176.

Royal, C. and O'Donnell, L. (2002) The Human Factor: Taking a Less Subjective Approach to Investment Decisions' Banking and Financial Services Journal, Volume 118, No. 6: 10-13, Melbourne, Australia.