CONSULTING

Dr Marcus Bowles provides professional services through The Institute for Working Futures Pty. Ltd. (Working Futures™). Since June 1991 Marcus has led projects with numerous clients including ASX top 20 and Forbes 500 companies. Clients have included iconic brands such as Telstra, Woolworths, Coles, Swarovski, IBM, Fortescue, Santos, CBA, Qantas, BHP Billiton, St George, Westpac, Simplot, Vodafone, Seven Network, SingTel Optus, Westpac, and ANZ. Non-private sector clients have included Australia and New Zealand largest professional bodies; government bodies; and in support of national development and education reforms in New Zealand, South Africa, Malaysia, Indonesia, UAE, and Singapore.

The main areas of consultancy include:

  • Human Capability Development (HCD): Capability is the general term for the strategic skills, mindsets and behavioural traits that underpin individual and group capacity and thence an organisation’s performance and capacity to adapt.
  • Workforce development and readiness: Identifying and isolating skill needs and misalignments between labour market supply and demand for skills at an industry or regional level.
  • Authentic assessment and credentials: Establishing work based and alternative learning, assessment, recognition and qualification solutions that use micro-credentials that automatically carry credit into formal qualifications offered by global universities.

RESEARCH

Marcus has a background helping large scale national, regional, industry, or large corporate, public sector or professional bodies become future-ready.

Research is primarily applied and collaborative, involving industry or international partners. He has had strong collaborative relationships with several universities in Australia, New Zealand, UK, USA, South Africa, and India.

Research interests include:

  • Future of work
  • Durable, non-technical, soft skills human capabilities
  • Leadership
  • Authentic assessment
  • Reshaping equity of access and recognition using micro-credentials that allow traditional and informal learning to credit towards formal qualifications

Marcus’ Publications can be found here

Public videos can be found here

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