Teaching

Former Program Leader of the Master of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

For six years, I was the Program Leader of the Master of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at UQ Business School, a unique program that equips aspiring entrepreneurs and innovators with essential knowledge about how to succeed in today’s constantly changing business environment. In this role, I provided leadership for the program’s growth and success, initiated and oversaw curriculum innovations, monitored and ensured student learning outcomes, and implemented student-centered initiatives to promote student success and a strong sense of community among them.

Current courses I coordinate and teach

Impact Academy 2 (MGTS7821) bridges theory and real-world application to provide MBA students with a practice‑based entrepreneurial learning experience. Students learn to leverage their personal strengths and real‑world insight to identify promising opportunities, craft compelling value propositions, and design viable and scalable business models. Working on their own projects, they progress from opportunity discovery to the development of validated, viable solutions.

Lean Start up for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (EIBS7311) is the capstone course of the Master of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. It introduces students to a hands‑on approach for turning ideas into successful innovations by rigorously testing whether they solve real customer problems. Student teams work on their own ideas or partner‑developed technologies, using customer interviews, rapid prototyping, and agile experimentation to build and validate business models.

Past courses I coordinated and taught

Managing Innovation (EIBS7302) is a core course in the Master of Entrepreneurship and Innovation program. It focuses on the fundamental concepts, strategies, and tools that can explain how and why some organizations succeed with their innovations while others do not. I ran the course as a flipped classroom, meaning that students had access to all the materials online and we then focused exclusively on exercises and in-depth discussions around real-world cases in the classroom.

Learning by doing in a disruptive world (PBEL3000) was a work-integrated learning course in which final-year undergraduate students from across UQ’s Business, Economics, and Law programs worked in trans-disciplinary teams to solve complex and unbounded challenges of industry partners. The course ran over ten days in intensive mode and I taught students every day new tools and techniques that they then applied to unpack the industry challenge to come up with increasingly refined and validated solutions. Over the years, students have worked with a diverse set of industry partners including Movus, Optus, Orange Sky, Suncorp, Surf Life Saving Queensland, and Domino’s Pizza Enterprises.