Maree Conway

Current

• Director at Thinking Futures (Sole Proprietorship)

Past

• General Manager, Quality, Information & Planning at Victoria University
• Director, Foresight, Planning & Review at Swinburne University of Technology
• Student Admin Services Officer at Chisholm Institute of Technology

• School Executive Officer at La Trobe University
• Student Records Officer at Footscray College of TAFE

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Education

• Swinburne University of Technology
• University of New England
• Griffith University

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Connections

72 connections

Industry

Education Management

Websites

• My Website
• My Company

Maree Conway’s Summary

After a long and successful career in university management, I established Thinking Futures in 2007 to work with people, institutions and professional associations to integrate long term thinking (AKA futures thinking) into strategy processes. Using a range of futures approaches, I faciliate processes and provide strategic scannng to allow organisations to develop strategy that is based on a systematic and rigorous exploration of the future.

I have particular expertise in managing strategy development and implementation projects for universities, vocational and further education providers and other educational institutions, and for professional associations in the education industry.

Maree Conway’s Specialties:

- strategic thinking using futures approaches such as scenario planning and casual layered analysis
- strategic planning and developing meaningful strategic plans
- environmental scanning to inform strategy development processes

Maree Conway’s Experience

• Director

  Thinking Futures (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Management Consulting industry)

  August 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)

  I run Thinking Futures as an innovative futures practice. My expertise is focused around strategy development and implementation, and the use of futures approaches to strengthen strategic thinking. I facilitate innovative planning workshops that combine my knowledge with the knowledge held by staff, and work with organisations to integrate systematic strategic thinking processes into their strategy development.

• General Manager, Quality, Information & Planning

  Victoria University

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Education Management industry)

  March 2005 — August 2007 (2 years 6 months)

  Manage strategy development, planning, quality, statistics and reporting management for a university with 46,000 students and 3,000 staff.

• Director, Foresight, Planning & Review

  Swinburne University of Technology

  (Education Management industry)

  January 1991 — March 2005 (14 years 3 months)

• Student Admin Services Officer

  Chisholm Institute of Technology

  (Education Management industry)

  1986 — 1990 (4 years )

• School Executive Officer

  La Trobe University

  (Education Management industry)

  1989 — 1989 (less than a year)

• Student Records Officer

  Footscray College of TAFE

  (Education Management industry)

  1981 — 1984 (3 years )

Maree Conway’s Education

• Swinburne University of Technology

  Graduate Diploma of Management (Strategic Foresight) , Strategy, Foresight , 2004 — 2006

• University of New England

  Master of Educational Administration (Honours) , Education Management , 1992 — 1995

• Griffith University

  BA , Media Studies, History , February 1975 — November 1977

  I was in the first intake of students to Griffith, which focused on multi-disciplinary studies.

  Activities and Societies:

  Social Welfare Committee member

Additional Information

Maree Conway’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company

Maree Conway’s Groups:

Australasian Foresight and Futures Association
Association of Professional Futurists
World Future Society
Association for Tertiary Education Management (Australia & New Zealand)
Association of University Administrators (UK),
Shaping Tomorrow Foresight Network

•    Global Foresight
•    Swinburne AGSE Alumni
•    Association of Professional Futurists
•    MarketingProfs
•    Griffith University Alumni
•    Scenario, Future & Strategy Group
•    Centre for Leadership Excellence
•    Next Director
•    Ideagora
•    Corporate Planning & Global Industry Segmentation
•    Strategic Planning Society (SPS)
•    SECTOR: zAll Other Group
•    Vision & Mission Professionals Group
•    Integral Australia

Maree Conway’s Honors:

ATEM Peter Karmel Travel Fellowship, 2008
ATEM President's Award for contribution to university management 1996.
University of New England Faculty Medal for academic excellence 1995.
ATEM Honorary Fellowship 1999.

Maree Conway’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• expertise requests
• reference requests
• getting back in touch