Mrs Bronwyn Holroyd Thomas

Experience, background and philosophy

Bronwny Holroyd Thomas brings many skills and educational experiences to her role on the Human Research Ethics Committee for NIODA. Life, as a mother and grandmother, management, education, both as a teacher and learner.

Her early life was dedicated to bringing up the best human beings she could. After working in retail, Bronwyn and her late husband started a very successful boutique management consulting practice. Their main focus was group relations, systems and process theories and constant improvement in all areas of an organisation.

They judged our success by the success of the organisations they consulted to and the success of employees who continued asking for their help when they moved to new positions.

Her role was to manage the consultancy and to manage and deliver the education arm, The Diploma of Frontline Management which they franchised from Melbourne Business School.

During this time Bronwyn completed the Masters in Innovation and Service Management at RMIT - the sister program of the Masters of Organisation Dynamics at RMIT.

As life changed her focus stayed with education, in the vocation education field and became Director of Studies for Martin College - a business college subsidiary of Study Group. There were many challenges in this role, trying to develop an interest in people that only wanted to be there to keep receiving their study allowance but there were many other students who were very keen to achieve Diploma of Business.

Now, in retirement she finds that she misses the stimulation of deep discussions with like minded people. When it was suggested that she might like to apply to be a member of the Human Research and Ethics Committee she felt that this was an opportunity to join some deep discussions where there is respect and no judgement, AND really be of use to the NIODA community and the community.

Bronwyn's focus of interest lay in a few areas, but mainly in environmental issues and indigenous affairs.