Professor Ann Brewer is the Dean of the University of Newcastle, Sydney and an Emeritus Professor, the University of Sydney. Professor Brewer is a specialist in organisational psychology and throughout her career has used her education and training in this field as a researcher, lecturer, and author, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, as well as working on boards and as an accredited executive coach.She has published eight books, most recently on leadership, coaching and mentoring, and over 50 publications in journals, book chapters and conference proceedings. Her work has been applied in diverse industry sectors such as business, education, industrial relations, Human resource management, health administration, public policy, transport and logistics.