In addition to his roles with the AUT and Waikato universities, Dr. Murthy is also the managing director of Superior Business Performance, a strategy and leadership consultancy based out of Sydney, Australia. In these roles he works with business leaders in Australia, and New Zealand as well as international industry, academe and practice to collaboratively explore future business challenges and craft anticipatory leadership practices. Dr. Murthy has over twenty five years of ownership, board executive, senior management, and independent consultancy experience in the high-technology, retail, and not-for-profit community sectors in a number of countries, including the United States, UAE, Oman, New Zealand, and Australia. He has a Bachelor (Honours) in Electronics and Electrical Engineering, and a Masters and Doctorate in Management from the Waikato Management School, where he was also their inaugural recipient of the “Outstanding Doctoral Candidate Award” for 2008. His research interests are in the areas of leadership, strategic management, innovation, and sustainability. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Global Management. He presents at international conferences, publishes in refereed journals in his research areas, and his new book; Please don’t stop the music: An Ensemble leadership repertoire for productive sustainability, and strategic innovation in uncertain times, is slated for release in late 2009.
