Ernest Antoine is a highly experienced specialist in leadership development in the public sector, with a particular focus on leadership in culturally diverse teams and contexts. His formal education in psychology, enhanced by recent leadership development training at Harvard University enable him to design and implement programs for individuals and organisations which produce profound and sustained changes in existing and emerging leaders. Through coaching and group-work techniques,

Ernie supports leaders to identify their strengths and areas for development and then provides them with inputs and strategies to improve their own leadership practice relevant to their context.

Ernie has extensive experience in emergency response settings, having worked over three years in Indonesia and Sri Lanka following the Asian Tsunami of 2005. He conducted reflective learning sessions for international NGO leaders engaged in humanitarian relief programs. He has also designed and delivered leadership workshops and individual coaching to senior leaders in international humanitarian and development teams in Asia, Africa, Central and South America and Central Europe.

Ernie designed several major multi-year leadership programs for the Australian Government’s international aid program. He was Principal Designer for a leadership program for emerging leaders in the Asia Pacific region and Leadership Specialist for the design of the Pacific Leadership Program, currently being implemented in 14 countries. In 2007, he evaluated a leadership development program conducted by the Commonwealth Study Groups of Australia and New Zealand in the Asia Pacific region which involved approximately 120 participants from 20 countries.