Margaret Alston
PhD (UNSW 1993); M.Litt (UNE 1990); Dip. Comp. Applic. (RMIHE 1989); B.Soc. Stud. (U Syd 1982)
Professor, Social work and Human Services Director of the Centre for Rural Social Research http://www.csu.edu.au/research/crsr/index.html
Margaret Alston is Professor of Social Work and Human Services and is Director of the Centre for Rural Social Research at Charles Sturt University.
She has published widely in the field of rural gender and rural social issues. She completed a study of Rural Women and Leadership, Breaking through the Grass Ceiling. Her most recent co-edited book is Social Work Fields of Practice, Oxford University Press, 2001 and her co-authored book Research for Social Workers, Allen & Unwin.
Recent research projects include impacts of drought, rural issues, rural women and sport, violence against women in rural areas, rural youth and employment and women and agriculture
Alana Johnson
BA. BSW
AASW. VAFT (Clinical) MAICD
Family Therapist & Social worker
Alana Johnson is a fifth generation farmer, a registered clinical Family Therapist & Social Worker, a Rural Consultant and Company Director. She co founded the Telos group in NE Victoria in 1992 and since then has gained a national and international reputation in training, rural development and change management.
Alana has presented at many conferences locally, nationally and in the USA, New Zealand, & Ireland on topics ranging from how to create sustainable farm families to how professional and government services can best engage and work with farm families. She has recently returned from Ireland where she spoke o hundreds of women about farm succession planning.
Alana teaches at rural Universities in Vic and NSW with a specialist focus on models of Family Therapy, Change Management and Rural Sociology.
She facilitates planning and performance improvement for Family Farm Businesses, Community Organizations and Corporate & Not for Profit Boards.
In 1993 Alana wrote and produced a short play about farm succession for the Victorian Women on Farms Gathering and since then has evolved a process informed by models of family therapy for engaging farm families in discussion of farm succession. Since then she has worked with many farm families and professionals to facilitate these discussions.
Lucio E. Dana
B.A. LL.B (Hons)
Family Business Adviser, facilitator and coach
Lucio E. Dana is a specialist family business adviser, facilitator, and coach who works with family and owner-managed businesses, and their professional advisers, to plan and implement business growth, continuity & succession strategies; to professionalise management; and to improve lifestyle. Lucio is the Managing Director of Creativity in Business Pty. Ltd which trades under the business name Family Business Dynamics
Over the last thirty years, Lucio Dana's professional and business experience includes: Work-study officer in a large manufacturing business; Partner of the Law Firm Macpherson & Kelley; Director of the Centre for Commercial Law and Applied Legal Research at Monash University; Chief Executive Officer of National Mortgage Market Corporation Ltd. and Owner-manager of a manufacturing family business.
Lucio vast experience in family business has seen him co-ordinate and deliver family Business Programs at Monash university, publish and co-author Succession Matters: The Australian Family Business Survey 2000", a national survey of family businesses, along with Family Business Succession Planning: A 10 Step Guide published by Centre for Professional Development, as well as presenting at many conferences and workshops throughout Australia.
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