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Donald Gordon

Summary

Donald now specialises in writing corporate histories. He has recently completed writing the history of a Perth-based company that is about to celebrate its 50th anniversary. This involved 1100 hours of work over a twelve-month period, conducting in total 102 interviews of 76 current and former employees and carrying out related research and writing. This book will be released early in 2024.
His book 'From Technocrat to Leader' published in 2019 focuses on the foundational importance to leaders of earning the trust of their people thus enabling them to show care. It is a self-help manual for those new to leadership roles and for established professionals looking to recalibrate their leadership, and charts his progress from a very technocratic engineering graduate to the leader he became.
Donald has extensive public speaking experience and includes leadership (based around the themes in his book), aviation and 'The evidence for ancient civilisations with advanced knowledge and technology' among his speaking topics.

Biography

Donald has spent his career in international senior leadership and consulting roles.
He has written extensively throughout his career. Much of his writing has been on technical topics and has included hundreds of technical reports and reports of forensic investigations into safety incidents. He has had peer-reviewed technical papers published in Australia through the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and in the USA through the Society of Automotive Engineers. For two years he wrote the bi-monthly ‘Classic Workshop’ column for Australian Classic Car magazine. In 2010 he wrote ‘Rodrigo the Adventurer’ for advanced child readers and had it published on Amazon Kindle.

Relevant qualifications

Master of Engineering degree (University of Melbourne) 1993.
Bachelor of Engineering degree (Mining) (Hons.), University of Melbourne.
Airline Transport Pilot (ATP), USA.
Airline Transport Pilot Licence (ATPL), Australia.
Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (FAusIMM).
Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management WA (FAIM).

Recent experience

Donald speaks on the topic of 'The evidence for ancient civilisations with advanced knowledge and technology'. He has recently made presentations on this topic at Gosnells library, Vincent library, Victoria Park library and Bull Creek library.

Donald also speaks on aviation themes. He recently gave a presentation to students of the Engineering Faculty at Edith Cowan University on the topic of 'The accidents that befell the De Havilland DH106 Comet, the world's first jet airliner, and the lessons learned from them.'

Publications

From Technocrat to Leader

From Technocrat to Leader

Publisher: Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia

Publ. date: 2019

Genre: Business, leadership and management

Come Fly With Me! - The memoirs of Captain John Hobson

Come Fly With Me! - The memoirs of Captain John Hobson

Publisher: Self published

Publ. date: 2011

Genre: Historical memoirs

Rodrigo the Adventurer

Rodrigo the Adventurer

Publisher: Amazon Kindle

Publ. date: 2010

Genre: Fiction for advanced child readers

Get in touch

Email [email protected]

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/FTTLDMG

YouTube https://www.linkedin.com/in/don-gordon-m-eng-faim-fausimm-751b7730/

Phone 0421282473

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