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Dr Mark Crosweller AFSM – Wisdom Award
For more than four decades, Mark has served communities in some of their most difficult moments. From disaster response and recovery to national security, Mark’s work has always centred on leadership in complex, uncertain and often tragic contexts.
Over time, Mark found a consistent truth emerged: technical excellence is not enough. What matters most in moments of crisis is our relational capability and how we treat one another. Mark’s career has included senior executive roles in emergency management and national resilience, including roles as Commissioner, Director General, and head of the National Resilience Taskforce. But it is the human dimension of leadership that now drives him: ethics such as compassion and the courage to act with wisdom and integrity.
Currently serving as Director of Ethical Intelligence, and until recently a member of the Australian Compassion Council, of the Charter for Compassion, Australia, Mark works with senior leaders and organisations facilitating deep conversations about the essential ethics of relational leadership. Mark says his ‘work is not for everyone, but it resonates deeply with those willing to reflect, to listen and to lead with both heart and intellect’. Mark’s capacity to connect organisations and leaders to the human experience and vulnerability of suffering and, to help them to determine and facilitate compassionate action, with mindfulness and wisdom, has been enormously transformative in individual lives and whole communities. More about Dr Mark Crosweller linkedin.com/in/mark-crosweller-afsm
Dr Mark Crosweller AFSM – Wisdom Award
For more than four decades, Mark has served communities in some of their most difficult moments. From disaster response and recovery to national security, Mark’s work has always centred on leadership in complex, uncertain and often tragic contexts.
Over time, Mark found a consistent truth emerged: technical excellence is not enough. What matters most in moments of crisis is our relational capability and how we treat one another. Mark’s career has included senior executive roles in emergency management and national resilience, including roles as Commissioner, Director General, and head of the National Resilience Taskforce. But it is the human dimension of leadership that now drives him: ethics such as compassion and the courage to act with wisdom and integrity.
Currently serving as Director of Ethical Intelligence, and until recently a member of the Australian Compassion Council, of the Charter for Compassion, Australia, Mark works with senior leaders and organisations facilitating deep conversations about the essential ethics of relational leadership. Mark says his ‘work is not for everyone, but it resonates deeply with those willing to reflect, to listen and to lead with both heart and intellect’. Mark’s capacity to connect organisations and leaders to the human experience and vulnerability of suffering and, to help them to determine and facilitate compassionate action, with mindfulness and wisdom, has been enormously transformative in individual lives and whole communities. More about Dr Mark Crosweller linkedin.com/in/mark-crosweller-afsm
