Tom Bentley
Working with people and institutions around the world on innovation and learning to renew education, economic and community life.
Words, Thoughts & Ideas
The Self Creating Society
This essay explores the connections between the world-wide shift towards self-determination and self-realisation – the urge to be free and to shape one’s own life
February 24, 2021
The Responsibility to Lead
This monograph began as an oration for the Australian Council of Educational Leadership in 2018. It grapples with the challenge of educational leadership when the
February 24, 2021
Letting Go: Complexity, Individualism and the Left
This essay reflects on the changing philosophical and strategic landscape for political projects of the left, and argues that centre-left reformers must learn ways to
February 24, 2021
I Believe
That our communities and politics will work better when we draw on more people with more diverse talents, and bring out what they can do.
That our institutions can be redesigned pragmatically to meet the challenges we face in this century.
That injustice needs to be confronted.
That education and learning are at the heart of the progress we can make.
What I Do
I am the Executive Director for Policy and Impact, and a Vice-Chancellor's Innovation Professor at RMIT University in Melbourne.
RMIT is one of Australia’s great tertiary education institutions, based in Melbourne with centres in Vietnam, Singapore, Hong Kong and Barcelona.
