About CTI

The Directors of CTI, who have a broad background in education and training, environmental and sustainability management, risk management, international business and strategy and management consulting, recognised the need for development of specialist training in “green skills”, specifically in relation to the management of carbon.

As the great proverb goes: “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”

So the CTI team set out to build a carbon-responsive workforce.

CTI decided the best way to do that was build organisation capacity through the VET system. Staff could learn how to build and implement whole-of-organisation carbon management strategies whilst using real-time data from their workplaces and engaging key staff to help them.

CTI was incorporated in October 2008 and applied to VETAB in NSW for permission to develop a Certificate III and Certificate IV in Carbon Management. The courses were developed during 2009 and pilot courses were conducted in mid-2009 and early 2010. The pilot courses as well as input from an industry panel helped shape the content of the course which for the Certificate III comprises 8 units of competency and for the Certificate IV, 12 units of competency.

Accreditation of the courses was granted by VETAB in May 2010 and delivery of the first course commenced in Melbourne in May 2010.

Since the qualifications were nationally accredited some 450 students have completed or are part-way through the Certificate III and Certificate IV courses and over 100 more students are currently in the process of enrolling for courses commencing in mid-July 2011.

Bruce Thomas
Executive Chairman

Bruce Thomas

T: +61 418 472 807
E: bruce@co2ti.com

Bruce Thomas is an acknowledged expert on climate change risk and has worked as an independent sustainability management and risk management consultant providing climate change risk advice to business and government. Prior to 2006 he spent almost 30 years in the insurance industry as a Member of Senior Management and Group Expert Underwriter of Swiss Reinsurance Company in Australia and Asia.

Bruce has presented papers on sustainability, climate change and risk management to conferences in Japan, Singapore and New Zealand as well as many events in Australia. He has developed and lead workshops and training programs for a wide variety of stakeholders in The Philippines, India, New Zealand and Australia.

Bruce is an Associate of Risk Frontiers at Macquarie University, Finance Director of Environment Business Australia Ltd, a member of the Steering Committee of the National Business Leaders Forum on Sustainable Development and a former member of the United Nations Environment Program Australasian Insurance Advisory Committee and the Federal Minister for the Environment’s Finance and Sustainability Roundtable.

Bruce is a former Chairman of Insurance Statistics Australia Ltd and for more than twenty years served on many insurance industry committees and working parties working with Government, business and policyholders.

Bruce holds a degree of Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne and completed an Advanced Executive Education Program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a CPA, a Fellow and Certified Insurance Professional of ANZIIF and a member of the AICD.

Rob Nicholls
Managing Director

Rob Nicholls

T: +61 403 806 779
E: robert@co2ti.com

Rob Nicholls is a market economist and experienced business strategist with a great depth of industry and technical experience.

Rob has an extensive working knowledge of the evolving climate change business system gained from projects associated with sustainability planning, risk mitigation, eco-focused investments and carbon markets. He has a solid understanding of the international and national climate change frameworks, protocols, mechanisms, policies & systems related to mitigating & abating GHG emissions and the related implications for business continuity, including managing carbon constrained risks and developing adaptation strategies.

Rob has lead a diverse range of strategic consulting engagements for many top 100 Australian & British companies across a variety sectors including Consumer Goods, Manufacturing, Energy, Finance, Insurance, Rail, Aviation, Telecommunications and Construction. Such experience has proved critical for understanding, pinpointing and remedying carbon risks and new business opportunities as well as the response plans which are necessary to secure their future.

Rob’s experience also extends into the SME domain, working with clients to understand their climate and carbon risks, particularly in areas such as supply chains, business processes & cost structures. He contributes some of his time guest speaking at various functions as a commitment to helping the middle market better understand the critical issues and impacts created by the impending low carbon economy.

He is also a Director of Optimal Business Solutions Consulting, a specialist advisory firm. Over the past 4 years he has been working in the climate change & carbon management field providing guidance and advice to firms on strategies for adapting to the new low carbon economy.

Affiliations Rob is a member of Environment Business Australia

Qualifications Rob has an MBA from Macquarie Graduate School of Management, a Bachelor of Business (Honours) from Southern Cross University and a Bachelor of Economics from the University of New England. He holds professional certificates in financial analysis from the University of Technology Sydney and project management (PRINCE2) from the Association of Project Management in the UK. Rob also holds a Certificate IV in workplace Training & Assessment (TAA40104).

Richard Bolus
Marketing & Communications

Richard Bolus

Richard set up the National School GreenPower Initiative and has provided environmental advice to a number of businesses, community organisations and government departments over the last 5 years.  In 2008, he helped Unity4 become the winner of News.com’s Green Business Award.

Richard was a founding member and later CEO of Green Canary, a social capacity building initiative started in Victoria that later spread nationwide.

Richard comes from an engineering and architectural background and originally worked in energy efficient housing design in the UK. He has worked on engineering projects in the rail transport sector in London and spent 4 years studying architecture and efficient house design in Japan.

Glenn Davidson
Coaching & Enterprise Collaboration

Glenn Davidson

Glenn Davidson, Environmental Educator of the Year (Victorian Association of Environmental Education) has a long history of teacher professional development facilitation, sustainability curriculum development and group training.

Glenn was a key architect of Sustainable Schools Initiative Victoria (Australian Sustainable Schools Inititative - DEW), the program winning the 2005 Allen Strom Eureka Award.

Glenn heads the development of a state training package for environment and sustainability facilitators on behalf of the Department of Education Victoria, Sustainability Victoria and the Department of Environment and Water Resources Heritage & the Arts Australian Government. He previously undertook work as a Senior Consultant and Facilitator for CERES Community Environment Park and is a founding director of Planet Savers Australia, a company developing sustainability strategy and carbon management for the education and corporate sector.

He is a member of various advisory boards including the Sustainability Education Roundtable, National Environmental Education Network, the State Education Steering Committee and both the Victorian and Australian Association of Environmental Education.

He advises many of the state education for sustainability service providers, NGOs along with state and federal government agencies. Glenn also facilitates the Green Home program for the ACF in Victoria.

Glenn is currently writing a doctoral thesis on Corporate Social Responsibility

Awards A part of his work with CERES and Planets Savers, Glenn’s projects have received the following awards:  Winner - Allen Strom Eureka Award 2005 Winner - Community Idol Award 2005  Winner Save Water Award 2005  Winner - Clean Air Society Australia & New Zealand Community Award 2006  Finalist Banksia Award 2006   Finalist Save Water Award 2006  Winner of the 2007 Premier’s Sustainability Award for Community Excellence   Double Finalist 2007 Banksia Environmental Awards, Community and Education

Professional Membership includes: VAEE – Victorian Association of Environmental Educators  AAEE – Australian Association of Environmental Educators

Bill Mcghie
Organisation Capacity Building & Training

Bill Mcghie

Bill McGhie leads the training team which has developed Australia’s first competency based Carbon Management training courses. He has trained workers and consulted in a wide range of industries.

He is an expert in Environmental & OHS management and has worked with many businesses to ensure whole of organisation engagement in best practice and compliance with standards and regulations.

Bill is a member of the Australian Life Cycle Assessment Society (ALCAS) and has also spent 9 years working on sustainable agriculture research trials focusing on the impact of farming practices on soil carbon.

Bill has a Masters Degree in OHS & Environmental Management, University of Western Sydney, a Masters Degree in Science, The University of Sydney, Graduate Diplomas in Environmental Management and Education, a Diploma of Applied Science in Agriculture and a Certificate IV in workplace Training & Assessment (TAA40104).

John Yealland
Manufacturing, Product & Business Adaptation

John Yealland

John is experienced in all facets of business operations management and has spent twenty years in the manufacturing sector (textiles, FMCG, plastics and steel industries) in training, IT, operations and general management capacities.

John is a specialist in developing vocational education training courses (competency based) and has had a great deal of experience in coaching and mentoring others for skills development and succession into roles with greater responsibility.

John has delivered training that achieved combined certification of ISO 14001 (environmental management systems), ISO9001 (quality management systems) and AS4801 (OHS management systems).

Qualifications John has a Bachelor of Commerce and an Associate Diploma of Competitive Manufacturing. He is a Six Sigma Champion, a Six Sigma Black Belt and holds a Certificate IV workplace Training and Assessment (TAA40104).

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Zeph Phillips

Dean Hewson
Digital Media Manager

Dean Hewson

Winton Evers
Teaching & Learning Team

Winton Evers

Formerly a TAFE facilitator in Demolition Supervision, Asbestos Awareness & Construction Induction. Winton has been concerned about anthropogenic impact on the environment for sometime. To do something significant, his former demolition company – Becwins - maintained a building materials recycling yard which received rescued re-usable building materials normally destined for landfill. Many houses in the Blue Mountains now have those re-claimed materials incorporated into their structure because of Winton’s work.
From a social perspective, Winton was conscious of the safety of his personnel in a highly dangerous industry. It was from here that he embarked on various innovations in safe demolition methodology which eventually led to his facilitation role in safety at TAFE.
When Winton came across the GHG Accounting Standard he realised how much organisations could improve their financial and environmental performance by managing their carbon emission sources.
Winton has an M.Sc., major in Climate Change & Sustainable Resource Management, B. Comm. and completed the CTI Certificate IV course in Carbon Management in late 2010. Since then he has trained well over 100 students at Certificate IV level so far.
Winton is passionate about the part he can play in motivating and assisting people to acquire the skills they need to take their organisations to the forefront in environmental and energy efficiency management.

Barbara Albert
Teaching & Learning Team

Barbara Albert

Barbara has over 15 years career experience in the financial, information technology, utility, telecommunications, and public sectors. She has a well-grounded knowledge of business and comes from a background in information technology and risk management. She specialises in carbon risk management, carbon accounting and management, sustainability strategy & reporting, and green information technology.   
Barbara holds a Masters degree in Commerce from the University for Business Administration and Economics in Vienna, Austria. She also studied Information Technology and Management Communication at Stern, New York University; Carbon Accounting and Reporting at Swinburne University in Melbourne; and Carbon Management with CTI. She is a member of a number of professional organisations and holds several industry certifications. 

Lars Lohmann
Teaching & Learning Team

Lars Lohmann

Lars Lohmann has over 20 years experience in strategic business development, in consumer goods, publishing and reinsurance. He has lead the establishment of multi-million dollar businesses in Australia, New Zealand and the USA and has pioneered the introduction of innovative technologies and business concepts.

Prior to establishing his own consulting firm in 2007, he held numerous senior management positions in sales, marketing and operations management in the USA, Germany, Spain, UK and Australia.
He now combines his skills in strategic business transformation and change management with carbon management and business sustainability and joined CTI as one of their accredited trainers in early 2011.

Lars holds a Masters in Business Administration from I.E.S.E in Barcelona, Spain. He also holds a degree in Political Science and Economics from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, USA and the Universität Freiburg in Germany. Furthermore he has degrees in Project Management, Training and Assessment and of course Carbon Management.

Genevieve Lee
Teaching & Learning Team

Genevieve Lee

Genevieve is an experienced environmental and finance professional with expertise in project management, analysis, change and risk management gained in investment banks, funds management and environmental sustainability consulting. She is also the director and principal consultant of Gleeco Green Solutions P/L working to best capture the opportunities in the fast growing sustainability space. In addition, she has been working on projects which have a significant impact including cleantech R&D ventures, commercial property energy efficiency and bottom-up awareness raising. She specialises in carbon management, sustainability strategy, and responsible investment and energy efficiency opportunities.

In addition to consulting companies in carbon management, Genevieve is also one of a select few accredited carbon management Cert IV trainers in Australia. She is also responsible for Case Study development as part of their Energy Efficiency Opportunities course.

She is a member of a number of professional and industry organisations.

Genevieve has a values-based approach to her work. She is passionate about developing strong client relationships (whether they be Cert IV Carbon Management course attendees or Australian businesses) and working collaboratively to achieve measurable, effective and sustainable outcomes.

Maria Mackiewicz-Turner
Teaching & Learning Team

Maria Mackiewicz-Turner

Maria has research experience in climate change risk assessment and adaptation as well as in emissions auditing. She has also worked on several sustainability related projects in the community.

Maria has a Bachelor’s Degree of Science in Biodiversity and Conservation from Macquarie University. She also holds a Certificate IV in Carbon Management from Carbon Training International (CTI) and a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment.

Ahmed Abdoh
Teaching & Learning Team

Ahmed Abdoh

As well as Certificate IV in Carbon Management, Ahmed teaches a range of IT Diplomas - Database Design, System Business Design and OHS.
Ahmed has a consultancy business in Medical software and IT policy implementation and training medical professionals in IT systems.
He previously worked as a marine engineer for GAC (Gulf Agency Company, Dubai), working on Cogen systems, electrical generators and marine diesel engines.
Ahmed was also a member of AIMPE, Australian Institute of Marine and Power engineers and UK Institute of Marine Engineers MER.
Ahmed’s carbon management skills go back to his engineering days onboard ships. His experience as a marine engineer has assisted him in applying this knowledge to carbon management training.
Ahmed’s passion lies in training others, particularly in the carbon management space, where he aspires to contribute to building a low carbon economy.

Suzanne Heimann

Wendy Hird
Teaching & Learning Team

Wendy Hird

Wendy has spent the last four years rolling out sustainability programs in commercial, industrial and government sites. She has engaged customers in sustainability practices and help to bring about management change: advising on policy, strategy, communication and marketing.

Wendy is interested in how media can be engaged to bring about cultural change and has developed multi-media campaigns on water efficiency including DVDs and web-based e-publication programs.

Wendy is a mechanical engineer with a background in project management and water efficiency in heavy industry. She won the international 2001 BHP Billiton HECS Award (Environment) for her involvement in bringing about Australia’s largest water recycling plant.

Rod Campbell

Rod is a founding partner of MMII. Currently Managing Director, he was previously running his own consulting practice in Sydney, Australia serving a variety of clients. His career has spanned several countries and includes 20 years experience in senior leadership positions as CFO. This experience includes several start ups and raising over £1bn in the capital markets in London and New York.
Rod has been involved with several start-ups - General Cable, Yorkshire Cable and Adeptra - where he established the companies from scratch and included the implementation and/or arrangement of major supply agreements, office facilities, office systems and large motor vehicle fleets.
Rod’s roles include Finance Director of General Cable PLC (then a subsidiary of Veolia, now part of Virgin Media) and CFO of Adeptra Ltd, both companies in the ICT sector in the UK.
He brings considerable experience in the capital markets in London and New York having led and completed several transactions in public and private equity, senior debt and M&A.
He and his family sailed from the UK to Australia in 2002 -¬ 2003, skippering his own yacht. Rod is a Chartered Accountant and a Master of Sustainability Science.