Deborah Wyatt: CV

Specialties

  • Stakeholder engagement and strategic partnerships across the research ecosystem

  • Scientific and scholarly publishing and research communications

  • Revenue growth, market and product strategy (specialising in Asian market strategy)  

  • General management and team leadership:  especially diverse cross-cultural, cross-functional teams 

  • Communications, writing, storytelling and  thought leadership  

  • Business, operations and strategic planning 

“Deb has a future-focused, problem-solving mindset with a great instinct for identifying beneficial partnerships to achieve results and has a special talent for bringing people from different sectors together.”

— Fiona McKinnon

RMIT University

  • Manager, Research Partnerships (Research and Innovation); 2022 —

University of Melbourne

  • Manager, Engagement (Faculty of Engineering and IT); 2021 — 2022

Impact Science (a CACTUS brand)

  • Vice President, Academic and Society Relations (Global); 2020 — 2021

Wiley

  • Vice President, Research (Asia Pacific); 2017 — 2019

  • Editorial Director (Health, Medicine, Social and Life Sciences); 2013 — 2017

  • Associate Editorial Director (Social Science and Humanities); 2006 — 2013

Blackwell Publishing

  • Research Journal Publishing Manager, Asia Pacific; 2001 — 2006

Cambridge University Press

  • Academic Publishing Assistant, Books; 2000 — 2001

Media Asia Pacific

  • Journalist and Sub-Editor; 1998 — 2000

Career

Education and Training

  • MA in Communication, Monash University (partially completed)     

  • BA (first-class honours, English), La Trobe University     

  • Leading for Results Program, INSEAD, Singapore     

  • General Management Program, Mt Eliza Business School, Melbourne     

  • The Leadership Challenge Intensive, Singapore     

  • Fully trained in Miller Heiman strategic sales methodology 

Public Speaking and Presentation

  • ‘Global collaboration in research publishing’; STM Asian Futures (from 7:55 here)     

  • ‘Reproducibility and Open Data’; Japan Open Science Summit (slides here)     

  • ‘Bringing Research to Life’; NISO Plus 2021 (from 26:02 here)   

  • Keynote at joint conference with Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (here)     

  • Keynote ‘Japan and the global research landscape’ (slides no longer available)

  • International Women’s Day Virtual Panel 2021 (view at 4:23 and 10:10 here)   

Writing

Leadership Through Disruption series:

  • Thoughtful and Mindful: Slower Thinking for Complex Problems (2020) here

  • Rest and Refocus: Tuning in to Creative Intelligence (2020) here

  • Cutting Through: Courage, Connection and Communication (2020) here

  • Leading from the Kitchen Table: Leadership Behaviours for a Disrupted World (2020) here