About

James Walker


  • Reviews and directs resolution of complex projects 
  • Held academic teaching positions - Graduate Business schools
  • Coaching panel of the Australian Institute of Company Directors
  • Consulting awards – Australia (Federal, VIC, SA) and United States   
  • Committee membership – Finance and Programs
  • Clients (below) include the World Bank, IMF, governments, and corporations


After teaching in Melbourne, I taught at the University of Southern California, and later at the American University Graduate School of Business (MBA program). My academic background integrates business and psychology. During this time I provided consultation to commercial and institutional clients (see below), and worked clinically in hospital and privately which I continued on return to Australia.


I have presented conference papers, and numerous workshops on psychoanalytic approaches to organisational consulting, coaching and therapy in Australia, USA and Europe. While Clinical Psychology Registrar at the Austin Hospital, I provided organisational consulting to government and industry in Australia. I completed the Australian Centre for Psychoanalysis program,and studied child psychoanalysis through the Monash University’s Child Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy program.


For business academic and professional associations in Australia, Europe, USA and Moscow I have presented numerous lectures and workshops. Examples of presentations, papers, and workshops include:

  • A Method to Develop Stakeholder Management Strategies, Professional Development Workshop, ISPSO
  • Why Well Managed Projects Fail and What to Do about it, Professional Development Workshop, ISPSO
  • Projections of influence: helping identify, analyse, and resolve perceived influence, EMCC
  • Aligning Information to Strategic Goals: A Framework for Information Systems Development.  The Australian Centre for Management Accounting Development, Annual Meeting
  • Locus of Control and Vocational Interest, The Australian Psychological Society, Conference
  • Optimism bias of Governance Groups: A defence against lack of presumed knowledge, Socioanalysis 19: 2017 (51-60)


Clients

Institutional:

International Finance Corporation*
International Monetary Fund*

The World Bank*

Medical/Hospital Boards*

National Institutes of Health (USA)*

Monash University (Defense)

Professional Associations*

University of West Australia


* multiple engagements


Governments:

Australian Federal Government*

U.S. Federal Government*

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 

Californian State Government

New South Wales Government

South Australian Government*

Victorian Government*


Corporate:

Adecco Group (Australia)*

A.N.Z. Bank*
Alcoa of Australia*

Zurich Insurance (AUS)
CitiPower (Electric utility)

Fiserv Corporation (Westpac)*

Marriott Corporation HQ*

Newmont Gold Mines

SunCorp Group

Territory Insurance Office