Leadership & Executive Advisory
Executive advisement, coaching, leadership development, board contribution and leadership for innovation.
Explore this practice →Professor Jay Hays
Leadership for complexity, change and what comes next.
International adviser, professor and organisational development specialist helping leaders and institutions navigate transformation, strengthen capability and build for the future.
Asia-Pacific • Working internationally
Practice areas
Where experience becomes useful.
Complex problems rarely fit neatly inside one discipline. Professor Hays works across five interconnected areas.
Strategy, Transformation & Organisational Development
Strategic planning, organisational transformation, systems thinking, diagnostics, risk management and capability development.
Explore this practice →Higher Education & Institutional Development
Academic governance, new institutions and programmes, professional education, academic leadership and institutional development.
Explore this practice →Research, Learning & Capability
Research strategy, commissioned research, evaluation, professional development, training and organisational learning.
Explore this practice →Independent Expertise & Public Engagement
Independent reviews, expert panels, advisory assignments, international-development work, keynotes and professional workshops.
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About
Three decades at the intersection of leadership, organisations, learning and change.
Professor Jay Hays is an international adviser, academic leader and organisational development specialist with more than three decades of experience across higher education, government, consulting and industry.
His career has taken him across North America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, working with senior leaders and institutions on transformation, leadership capability, research, education and complex organisational change.
Asia-Pacific • Working internationally
More about Professor Hays →Evidence in practice
Experience that crosses sectors and borders.
International development
USAID Ethiopia & Djibouti
Organisational transformation, leadership capability, knowledge management and organisational health advisory work.
Integration & change
GE IT Division Integration
People and organisational dimensions of acquisition integration, alongside strategy, change and risk-related work.
Higher education innovation
Swinburne University
Institution-wide development of industry-engaged learning and professionally relevant curriculum.
Research capability
Institutional Research Development
Research culture, supervisor development, institutional performance measures and postgraduate research systems.
Experience across
Higher Education • Government • International Development • Technology • Professional Services • Public Sector Transformation
Ways to engage
From one focused conversation to an extended international assignment.
Current thinking
Ideas worth exploring.
Leadership, organisational learning, complexity, institutional development and the future of education.
Leadership for Complexity
Making better decisions when the environment is uncertain, interconnected and resistant to simple solutions.
Coming to the journal →Organisations That Learn
Building cultures, systems and capabilities that allow people to learn, adapt and improve continuously.
Coming to the journal →The Future of Higher Education
How institutions remain relevant as technology, work and learner expectations continue to change.
Coming to the journal →Creativity, Innovation & Leadership
Creating the conditions for people to challenge assumptions, experiment intelligently and turn ideas into useful change.
Coming to the journal →
Speaking & professional development
Ideas brought into the room.
Keynotes, executive workshops, leadership programmes, faculty development and customised professional-development initiatives for organisations internationally.
Discuss a speaking engagement →Discuss an engagement
Working on something difficult?
Professor Hays works internationally with leaders and organisations facing complex questions of leadership, strategy, transformation, education and institutional development.