Dom's view on education
Education stands on the precipice of a once-in-a-multi-generation change. Profoundly disruptive technologies like AI – whilst occupying everyone's attention – loom very large as a force of change, but the truth is generative and agentic AI is just the tip of the transformation iceberg. A combination of socio-political change, challenges in declining academic standards, issues with attracting and retaining the right teaching talent, shifting (and often problematic) dynamics in parental engagement, huge funding pressure and fundamental questions about the role of education itself combine to mean we are now asking some of the biggest and most important questions of education we have ever asked.
And in the middle of it all, from primary education through to higher and further learning, are the educators, leaders and administrators tasked with figuring out how to deliver in this most trying of times. That's YOU… and truly, it's no small ask!
“Dom's passion is contagious and he speaks the right language to effect real behaviour change.”
Dom Thurbon has spent two decades working deeply with the education sector both in Australia and overseas. Through his large-scale education and behaviour change programs at Karrikins Group, he and his team worked with over 50,000 teachers and more than a million students across Australia, New Zealand, North America, Europe and Asia – in over four thousand schools. His diverse work has spanned areas as broad as: working with the Australian Institute of Teaching and School Leadership on the launch of the National Professional Standards for Teachers; working with individual schools, TAFEs and universities on strategy and planning; founding Educator Impact, a for-purpose business that provided teacher and student mental health measurement tools to schools; working with public and private sector education associations and departments to help school leaders respond to change; and designing and delivering programs for students in areas as diverse as cyber safety, digital literacy, road safety, financial capability and disability.
Whether it's engaging and inspiring a room of educators to own the future of education, working with education leaders to craft strategies that stand the test of time, or designing behaviour change interventions that help address wicked problems – Dom's work in education has been the highlight of his career. He would truly love to join you at your next event and help create an experience that is as inspiring and dynamic as it is informative and practical.