Fabian Dattner

Fabian Dattner is well known to many Australians. She is a regular commentator in the media on corporate ethics, organisational alignment and leadership issues. Through her company, Dattner Grant, Fabian facilitates and supports a range of high profile organisations in cultural alignment, leadership development and strategic transformation. She has a number of commercial and community achievements to her credit. She has penned several books on leadership and has been included in many others, including works on successful women in leadership in Australia. She is widely recognised as a highly effective cultural/change strategist, facilitator, teacher, ethicist and social entrepreneur. She has been cited by Australia's premier business magazine, The Bulletin, as one of Australia's top 100 contributors, she has twice been a runner up in the state Telstra business women's awards.

She has personally interviewed over 5,000 working Australians in over 300 organisations in over 30 industries. Her insights into organisational culture, and the power of leaders to shape this, and her fearlessness in challenging leaders to consider more inclusive, and indeed more profitable forms of leadership are well acknowledged. She is described as down to earth, informed, entertaining and provocative.

Most recently, she was included in Susan Mitchell's Splitting the world apart (published by Penguin 2002) and as one of seven contributors to the Australian Institute of Management's Seven Heavenly Virtues of Leadership (McGraw-Hill, Sydney, 2003). She has just completed three books (2006), Will To Grow , Foundation, A front line leadership story and The Journey, the challenge of senior leadership on behalf of Aurora Energy Tasmania.

Fabian is much sought after for the work she does. She has worked in or spoken for over 500 organisations and for various national and international associations including government, corporate, entrepreneurial and not for profit. She brings to all her engagements immense practical experience which enables her to structure her sessions to the specific needs of audiences, small or large. She does not produce 'off the shelf' sessions. She is a real expert in her field, with a rare capacity to take complex ideas and make them accessible to people.

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