Ralph Kerle is the Founder of the Creative Skills Training Council and CEO of the Creative Leadership Forum, www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com dedicated to advancing the practice of leadership and management by designing and delivering creative thinking tools and arts based processes and programmes.

He is a Board Member and a member of the International Committee of the US Creative Education Foundation, is currently American Creativity Association Chapter Leader in Australia and a Fellow of the US-based think tank, the Center for Cultural Studies & Analysis. He is faculty adjunct at the Banff Centre of the Arts, Banff, Canada as an Innovation Coach in their Leadership Development Programme.

Australian Board memberships have included the Australian Marketing Institute (9 years), the Australian Festival and Events Association and Artspace, Sydney,(5 years) a federally and state funded contemporary visual arts space.

In 1992, he founded Eventures Australia Pty. Ltd and built into one of Australia's leading event design and production companies. In the of Creative Director, he worked for such Fortune 500 companies as Caltex, Fosters, Dairy Farmers, Foxtel, General Motors, Hewlett Packard, Kraft Foods, Nestle, Rolls Royce, Peugeot, Toyota, Telstra, Walt Disney, and Yellow Pages

He is a drama graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne Australia and former Associate Director of the Sydney Theatre Company. He is currently completing his Professional Doctorate in Creative Industries at Queensland University of Technology, Creative Industries Faculty, Brisbane Australia.

He is a writer, theatre and events producer and director, former owner of a comedy cabaret and photographer.

Contact  rk@the creativeleadershipforum.com
Phone 612 80035027
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