Dr Craig has degrees in Business and Psychology (with Honors) from Griffith University, a Masters in Counseling and a PhD in Behavioral Science from Bond University. He is an Associate Member of the Australian Psychology Society (APS).
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His PhD thesis examined individual behavior using functional behavioral analyses techniques pioneered by B. F. Skinner. This methodology forms the basis of the intervention programs developed at Busi-Psych.
He works closely with business-owning families, their consultants, and advisors, and has trained and presented to members of family firms from most sectors and countries worldwide.
Justin just a quick note to say thank you for driving our process of succession, I am very pleased by the way you are directing this to conclusion. You never lost site of the importance of legacy while driving home the transfer of operations.
I look forward to its success.
Presentation/Speaking Engagement Examples
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Family Business 101: All you wanted to know but were too afraid to ask.
This presentation will look at the distinguishing challenges of operating a family-owned business. We will look at family human resource development and governance processes used by successful multi-generational family firms. More specifically, we will use as our platform the generation-influenced frameworks that have and are being used to help facilitate communication and education of current and future generation members to better prepare them for what will be the 'new normal'. In doing this, we will spark conversation that will lead to a better understanding of the need to continually innovate to deliver better prepared family members who have the requisite ability (i.e., knowledge, skills, experience) and willingness (i.e., confidence, commitment, motivation) to contribute meaningfully to the sustainability (and legacy) of their family and business(es).
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Learning from Long-Lived Family Enterprises
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Family businesses operate in a ‘dual logics’ domain. That is, they concurrently focus on social and economic metrics. In this session, the focus will be on what can be learned from how long-lived family businesses continue differently across generations. Specifically, we will learn, and better understand, how trust is built in next generation leaders as they are prepared for the responsibility for stewarding their business and their family, while at the same time, make significant contributions to society and the communities in which they operate.
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Building a Stewardship Climate: Learning from Family Enterprises
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Stewardship climate is defined as the extent to which individuals perceive that their firm’s policies, practices, and procedures foster stewardship behaviour (e.g., other-focused and prosocial) and stewardship values (e.g., altruism), which are widely shared across the organization. Research conducted by Dr Craig and colleagues has demonstrated that the level of stewardship climate in family firms is higher than that found in non-family firms. This finding supports the contention that family firms are more concerned with stewardship as a form of governance than non-family firms. In addition, their research indicated that, in family firms, stewardship climate was positively linked to innovativeness, which in turn, was positively linked to organizational performance. In non-family firms, stewardship climate was not linked to innovativeness. In this session, Justin will discuss the individual and organizational dimensions of stewardship climate and share how business families with a stewardship orientation are better positioned strategically.