Big Picture People
Board of Directors
BPEA was established by a dedicated group of Australians who understand the importance of re-thinking the way we "do" schools. The BPEA Board consists of the following directors:
Viv White
Viv is the CEO, Founder and Company Secretary of Big Picture Education Australia. Prior to leading this innovative venture, Viv was CEO of the Victorian Schools Innovation Commission and the Australian National Schools Network. She has a thirty-year history of international work in educational reform, research , policy and practice.
Bruce Kiloh - Chair
Bruce is BPEA Public Officer. Bruce was the Assistant Regional Director for the Western Metropolitan Region, Department of Education & Training in Victoria; and prior to that was an Assistant General Manager responsible for a range of social justice initiatives in the Department.
Susan French
Susan is the principal of St Johns Park High School and a Board Member of the Australian National Schools Network (ANSN). She has held a number of senior executive positions with the Australian Education Union (AEUACT) and the NSW Teachers Federation.
Joanne Roberts
Joanne is Principal of Ascot Vale Primary School, a past Board Member of Victorian Curriculum Authority and past Victorian State Coordinator of the Australian National Schools Network. She has worked in both Primary and Secondary sectors of education in Victorian schools. Her current research work in her school is exploring Middle Years of Schooling implementation and looking at Big Picture Design principles at the primary end of schooling.
Keith Reams
Keith is a client services principal of Deloitte’s Global Transfer Pricing Group and the Service Line Leader for the Asia Pacific Region. He is also the Client Services Principal and Lead Economist Pacific Rim Global Transfer Pricing for Deloitte’s Transfer Pricing Group in San Francisco.
Chris Bonnor
Chris Bonnor AM is a public education consultant and advocate. He is the co-author (with Jane Caro) of *The Stupid Country – How Australia is dismantling public education* published by UNSW Press in 2007. He has served as principal of two secondary schools in NSW and until 2006 was President of the NSW Secondary Principals’ Council.
John Hogan
John is one of the co-founders of BPEA and is engaged as a School Consultant. John has extensive experience, expertise and training in consulting, coaching and supervision; action learning and group work; strategic and project planning, curriculum development; and research and evaluation. John runs an education consulting business, Redgum Consulting Pty Ltd.
Marylou Verbenne
Marylou Verberne is the CEO of Play for Life, a not for profit using play to bring about social change. Marylou left her role as a Director with Social Ventures Australia to start up Play for Life in July 2010. She has many years experience in the not for profit sector as well as being a qualified lawyer and working in state and federal political roles.
Mike Hollings
Mike is the Chief Executive of New Zealand's largest school, Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu, which provides distance education to around 25,000 school-age and early childhood students each year. Mike has more than 30 years' wide-ranging experience in the education sector, from teaching through to management, policy development and review. He is of Maori descent from the Ngati Raukawa tribe.
Katherine Armstrong
Katherine is the founder and Managing Director of Lateral Projects. She is an innovator and strategist with a combination of strong analytical skills, sharp commercial acumen and political nous. Katherine’s specialist skills include strategic planning, brief development, procurement strategy, design management and cost control, brokering, leadership and team building.
Patrons
Elliot Washor and Dennis Littky are patrons to Big Picture Education Australia and international consultants to the Board.
Founders
- Viv White
- Joanne Roberts
- John Hogan
- Bruce Kiloh
- Andrew Bunting
- Rod Moore
- Tony Wickert
- Keith Reams
Big Picture Education Australia is supported by a dedicated team of people around Australia.
Joe Wickert
Joe has a long history in educational multimedia and communications. He works with Summer Hill Media, the Australian National Schools Network and handles communications, media and publications for BPEA.
Sara Wickert
Sara is responsible for the financial administration and membership management for the BPEA. Her education background is a unique combination of an undergraduate degree in French and English from University of Sydney and a Masters of Business in Accounting from UTS.
Peter Flynn
Peter Flynn handles communications, media and publications for BPEA. Peter is a national and international awarded writer and director. He uses multi-media, moving pictures and sound to educate, entertain and enthuse. Peter has worked with a range of clients - government, big corporations, small companies, community organisations, universities and schools and others.
Peter Morgan
In 38 years working in education, Peter has:
- been a school leader for 25 years, including as principal in 3 different schools over 18 years.
- worked as a curriculum consultant and state co-ordinator of the innovative National Schools Project
- worked in rural, regional, metropolitan and international schools
- taught from kindergarten to university.
These roles have taken him to all regions of NSW, all states and territories of Australia, to Brunei and the UK. He and his family have lived in desert, rainforest and alpine regions, an Aboriginal community and a Muslim society.
Peter is the Big Picture Hub Leader for the Hunter region in NSW.
Steve Walley
Over thirty years within the Education Department of Tasmania Stephen has fulfilled a number of roles, including seven years as principal at Prospect High School.
Stephen's current role involves facilitating the Future Schools Design Network bring together Launceston high school and college principals.
Stephen is the coach of City Campus Inveresk a Big Picture School in Launceston and co-ordinates the Tasmanian Big Picture Network.