Dr Brad Jorgensen

Biography

Brad Jorgensen is an experienced and highly-trained:

• leader


• researcher


• educator


• project manager


• human resources professional.

He has extensive experience in the management of personnel, organisational change and high level strategy development.
Brad is currently performing the role of Infohrm Research Fellow QUT, a hybrid academic and business consultancy role sponsored by the Infohrm Group.  In his consulting role Brad has consulted extensively in the following sectors:

• human services


• utilities


• mining


• education


• health.

Career highlights
Brad has had a rich and varied career, across a number of roles in leadership, project management and research positions within the private and public sector.
These include:

• Principal Project Officer Learning and Development for the Department of Industrial Relations Queensland


• Principal Adviser (Research and Innovation) for Education Queensland


• Deputy Director of Workforce Structures and Unit Commander in the Royal Australian Air Force


• Senior consultant and Manager Global Analytics Services for the Infohrm Group.

Research interests

• ageing of the workforce


• unemployment


• high performance work systems


• economic globalisation.

Publications
Brad has:

• completed his professional Doctorate titled: The Ageing Population. Working and Learning in the Knowledge Economy: Implications for Education Queensland


• published a number of papers in international refereed journals


• contributed to National and State level reports.

Topics include:

• public sector reform


• education


• population ageing


• high performance work systems


• workforce planning


• economic globalisation. 

With his colleagues in the US and Australia Brad is currently writing two books, provisionally titled:

• The World at Work 2.0:  Connection, Challenge and Risk


• Integrated Workforce Planning.

In 2008, Brad led the Infohrm Group’s contribution in an ARC linkage research grant dealing with the topic of managing labour supply in a globalising economy.