Dr Michelle Evans holds an Associate Professorship in Leadership at the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne, specialising in the areas of Indigenous leadership and entrepreneurship. She is also co-Founder and Program Director of the award winning MURRA Indigenous Business Masterclass Program, based at Melbourne Business School where she completed her PhD.
Dr Evans has been awarded three Australian Research Council competitive grants and a Fulbright Scholarship and is widely published in this space. She teaches predominantly at senior executive and postgraduate levels. Prior to academia, Dr Evans was Founder of the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development at the Victorian College of Arts. Together with her research, this provides a unique combination of professional experience in management, community engagement and facilitation in Indigenous leadership and policy development. She has been consulted by the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, OECD and other public institutions as well as leading Australian organisations in development of their Reconciliation Action Plans. Dr Evans believes that the path to Indigenous self-determination is economic independence. In addition to establishing MURRA, Dr Evans has also established other initiatives designed to support Indigenous entrepreneurship including Walan Mayingu Indigenous entrepreneurship pop-up Hub, Indigenous Business Month and collaborated on the Native Title Operations and Management Training Program with the National Native Title Council.
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
Postdoctoral Indigenous Scholarship
Inaugural Diversity and Inclusion Award
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Positions
Associate Professor In Leadership
Management And Marketing
Academic Member
International Leadership Association
Certified Member (Cahri)
Australian Institute of Human Resources
Academic Member
Academy of Management
Academic Member
Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management
Appointed Member
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Education
PhD Management
Melbourne Business School
Master of Creative Arts
University of Melbourne
Graduate Diploma in Arts Management
Victorian College of the Arts
Bachelor of Arts (Communications-Community Theatre)
Charles Sturt University