Knowledge management (KM)

Summary:

• High-level knowledge and understanding of knowledge management (KM) theory, processes, tools, and techniques.
• More than 40 years of experience in the practical application of KM, gained through bringing together and integrating multiple knowledges in complex decision-making.

Highlights:

• Winner of KM Award 2025 – Winner of International Knowledge Management Award 2025 (Individual Category), awarded by Knowledge Management Austria and the global Knowledge for Development Partnership (K4DP).
• Global Top 50 – Awarded one of the Top 50 Most Influential People in Global Tacit Knowledge Management, 2023 by the Global Think-Tank of Organizational Tacit Knowledge Management (GO-TKM).
• Thought leader – Recognised as a KM Thought Leader.
• 5 million views for award-winning RealKM Magazine – Editor, Lead Writer, and a Director of the award-winning online RealKM Magazine, which promotes evidence-based approaches to knowledge management (KM). In this role, I have authored more than 600 synthesis feature articles, research summaries, and commentary articles, and published over 2,000 articles from other authors. RealKM Magazine has so far received more than 5 million article views and over 140 testimonials, as well as a Platinum Award in the 2020 Australian Society for Knowledge Management (AuSKM) Awards and the Knowledge and Information Award in the 2018  CILIP Knowledge and Information Management (K&IM) Awards.
• Ethical and responsible AI in KM – Currently taking a leading role in promoting the need for ethical and responsible AI in KM, and publishing comprehensive resources to facilitate this.
• A new generation of KM4SD – Lead author of the 2023 paper “’We have a dream’: proposing decolonization of knowledge as a sixth generation of knowledge management for sustainable development” which was launched in a landmark event at the Dr Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Library in Washington DC. This proposal has so far informed the knowledge management practices of United Nations (UN) agency IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development), as shown in points 22 and 23 on page 7 and Box 4 on page 58 of an IFAD evaluation report.
• UN Pact for the Future – Initiated and led the 2024 KM & Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) campaign on behalf of three global knowledge management organisations – RealKM Cooperative Limited, the Knowledge Management for Development Community (KM4Dev), and Knowledge for Development Partnership (K4DP). My campaign leadership role is referenced on page xiii of the Agenda Knowledge for Development and profiled in an award laudation by Dr Sarah Cummings. The KM & SDGs campaign has made and continues to make a significant contribution to discourses related to knowledge and knowledge societies in global UN policy documents. This includes a key campaign policy document being listed as a scientific reference that the 2027 UN Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR) should consider.
• First Nations – Worked with and carried out advocacy in support of the Yuggera elders.
• Forum leader – Lead organiser of the 2025 KM Triversary Forum, a global online event which had the theme “bridging the research-practice gap in knowledge management (KM)” and attracted more than 130 participants.
• Judge – International Expert Review Panelist for the Global Most Innovative Knowledge Enterprise (MIKE) Award in 2026, 2025, and 2024.
• Journal editor – An editor of the Knowledge Management for Development Journal.
• Teaching – Initiated, developed, and taught two new KM subjects at Shanxi University.
• Knowledge strategy – Led the development and implementation of a knowledge management strategy process with resources and training for the 56 regional natural resource management (NRM) organisations throughout Australia, as part of the award-winning Land & Water Australia Knowledge for Regional NRM Program.
• Multiple knowledges in complexity – Led numerous environmental and natural resource management (NRM) programs and projects that engaged multiple knowledges in the face of complex problems. Examples include Sustainable Management of the Helidon Hills project, award-winning Holistic Natural Resource Management of Crow’s Nest Shire (‘Project Green Nest’), award-winning Hawkesbury-Nepean River Recovery Program, Biodiversity Recovery Plan for Gatton and Laidley Shires, and Upper Ma Ma Creek Rainforest Restoration Project.

Awards and recognition

Testimonials:

Awards, major achievements, and over 140 testimonials

Land & Water Australia Knowledge for Regional NRM Program

Environmental knowledge management