Ron Passfield (ronpass)

Ron PassfieldRon Passfield, PhD, is Co-owner, Director Marketing and Principal Consultant for Merit Solutions Brisbane, a human resource consulting organization. Ron has been a Director of his own small business since he commenced working from home in 1999.

Ron’s management experience includes 15 years as a manager in large organizations, five of which were at the Executive Director level. He has managed employee numbers ranging from 10 to 3,000 employees.

He has worked for more than 25 years developing managers in the public sector, not-for-profit sector and private sector. Ron has conducted manager development workshops throughout Australia and in Auckland (NZ), Bath (UK), Port Moresby (New Guinea), Singapore and Cartagena (Colombia).

Over the past 15 years Ron has worked with hundreds of managers to help them improve some aspect of their organization through action learning.

Ron taught people management to MBA students at Griffith University for more than 10 years. His PhD involved working with a SMB organization over 6 years to develop managers and successfully create a culture of innovation.

Ron is internationally recognized for his expertise in applying action learning to manager and organization development. For example, he was given a “Master Teacher” award by the International Management Centres Association in the UK, who have provided action learning-based manager development to tens of thousands of managers in 45 countries.

Ron is a dedicated educator, accomplished tennis player, proud father of five and a passionate Internet marketer. He lives in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.