Shane Rodgers is an experienced business leader and strategist across media, peak industry organisations, education and government. He is a former Queensland Head and national Chief Operating Officer of peak employer body The Australian Industry Group.  

In media, his roles have included Queensland Editor of The Australia, National Editorial Director of APN Regional Media, Editor-in-Chief of Quest Newspapers and Deputy Editor, News Editor and Chief-of-Staff of The Courier-Mail, as well as spending five years in the Canberra Press Gallery and many years as a working journalist covering politics, economics, industrial relations and social change. He is also a former General Manager of News Corporation (Queensland) and COO and Communication and Marketing Director of the Brisbane Economic Development Agency.

Shane’s marketing and communications roles have included Marketing and Communications Director of The University of Queensland and General Manager (Marketing, Communications, Digital and Advocacy) at Goodstart Early Learning.

Shane has 60,000 personal followers on the LinkedIn social media platform and is the author of Worknado – Reimagining the way you work to live. He has a particular interest in the major forces of change reshaping the way humans live and work.