Management Expert - Strategy, Venture Capital, International Business, and Government Policy
“I am so very grateful that you have been at the helm and I wanted to say thank you for your sense of calm, your amazing ability to juggle so many things at once, and your willingness to help and support everyone. I have thoroughly enjoyed working with you.””
Dr Brett White is an expert in management. Brett has an Executive MBA from Macquarie Graduate School of Management and a PhD in Entrepreneurial Finance from Macquarie University
Brett delivers large scale multi-million dollar projects across a range of core disciplines.
With excellent problem solving skills, intellectual independence, and a demonstrated ability to redefine existing knowledge, Brett is a well rounded professional.
Brett is a highly experienced, well-regarded, and organised leader. He has a track record of navigating large bureaucracies, managing long-term, complex projects, and building strong relationships. He is an excellent communicator, published in leading peer-reviewed journals, and is an accomplished and engaging public speaker.
Brett has extensive experience and knowledge of Finance, International Business, Decision-making, Strategy, Management & Leadership, and Entrepreneurship.
“Capital yields income and other useful outputs over long periods of time. Every firm needs access to the three types of capital - Financial Capital, Human Capital, and Social Capital. Invest in these, and you are 80% there.”
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Expertise
Management & Leadership
Put simply, management is the efficient and effective pursuit of goals through Planning, Organising, Leading, and Controlling.
I have extensive experience managing large scale programs. I deliver complex material in an engaging, challenging, and organised manner. I lead a team of 20 people to deliver a program to more than 2,000 students, generating approximately $10 million of revenue annually.
Venture Capital & Finance
My PhD presents an examination of business angels through three research papers focusing on academic, practice, and policy. This triumvirate identifies what we know about business angels - the academic - how they make decisions - the practice - and, finally, the interaction of government and business angels.
I provide a critique of micro and macro issues, giving rise to new investor archetypes (both angel investors and other early stage investors, a question the extent of angel human and social capital, develop the first model of the Australian Finance Escalator, and discuss the fragmentation of the Australian angel finance market.
International Business
International business management is a three way balancing act. Businesses must balance local responsiveness, building economies of scale, and taking advantage of price differentials. This is the Triple A model - Adapt, Aggregate, or Arbitrage.
There are 3 ways to gain competitive advantage in foreign markets:
Locate activities among nations in ways that lower costs or achieve differentiation
Efficient & effective transfer of the firms competencies and capabilities from nation to nation
Co-ordinati
“Brett does a great job communicating what is very complex and often ambiguous”
– Student Feedback (Executive MBA)
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