
James R. Carlopio, B.A., M.A., Ph. D.
James is trained as an organisational psychologist and has started and run two successful cyber security businesses. He has consulted to scores of major Australian and International businesses. James has published over three-dozen articles and five books on various socio-technical issues and has written a regular section for the Australian Financial Review BOSS magazine. He held the roles of VP (DVC equivalent), Director of Executive Education, Deputy Dean/Deputy Head of School, and Discipline Lead. He has been a facilitator of short-term meetings and large-scale organisational change, and a speaker at numerous meetings on organisational strategy, cybernetics, human factors/ergonomics, human technology, and organisational behaviour.
James has worked on projects for numerous Australian, European, and US-based organisations, most recently in the areas of cultural cyber security, organisational change, strategy development, design and implementation, applying design principles and creativity to strategy design and development, as well as team-building and management development. James has worked with organisations including the United Nations (ACT/EMP) in Geneva and Zurich Switzerland, with Boral, Rio Tinto, IBM, NABCapital, Australian Federal Police, AIPM, The ABC, Munich Reinsurance, CBA, ANZ, Westpac, Vodafone, Telstra, Optus, SAP, AMP, NRMA, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Applied Micro Systems/AAG Holdings/Volante, Australian Customs Service, Trowbridge Consulting, Australian Defense Industries, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Honeywell Australia Limited, St. Vincent's Hospital Sydney, Austrade and The Pipeline Authority, in Australia, and with General Motors, Ford Motors, and over 100 of their first and second tier suppliers in the U.S.
James is currently an Executive Director of Cultural Cyber Security (CCS), a company he started almost 10 years ago with Brian Hay, to fill a gap in the market focusing on the people and cultural side of cyber security.