Future Leaders Program

Aiming to create and retain great leaders throughout rail, the ARA Future Leaders Program is a six month program that brings together emerging leaders from throughout the Australasian rail industry.

ARA members are invited to nominate one individual they see as a future leader of our industry to participate in the annual program.

The program is structured over three workshops and includes attendance at multiple networking events, including AusRAIL.

Participants gain a whole of industry picture and an understanding of where the rail industry is headed, complete personality analysis testing and activities to better understand their own individual role as a leader, develop their leadership and management skills, participate in communication and conflict resolution sessions and in groups, complete projects that are pitched to an industry judging panel at the final workshop. The two leading projects then present their pitch as part of the AusRAIL Conference agenda where the audience votes on the winner.

Further information can be found in the ARA Future Leaders Program brochure.

2019 Program Participants:

Luke Stevenson, Head of Project Management Office, 2XM Projects
Georgina Turnor, Head of Finance, Arc Infrastructure
Brendan Cassels, Senior Engineer, Arup Pty Limited
Subrina Rahman, Senior Engineer, Aurecon
Trajan (Terry) Dostinoski, NDT Technician, Team Leader, Bureau Veritas
James Shaw, Senior Systems Engineer, Calibre Group
Luke Parker, Project Engineer, CPB Contractors
Tristan Smith, Acting Unit Manager Electrification and Projects, Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure
Dan Adams, Manager – Engineering, GFG - Liberty Primary Steel
Renae Carter, HR Business Partner, Inland Rail – ARTC
Nithurshan Nadarajah, Research Engineer, Institute of Railway Technology (Monash University)
Craig Edmondson, Rail Engineer, Jacobs Australia Pty Ltd
Aaron Hargraves, Senior Systems Assurance Engineer, John Holland Pty Ltd - Rail Division
Brett Ebrington, Project Engineer - Rolling Stock, MTM
Marijan Harris, Senior Project Engineer, Novo Rail
Matthew Parker, Regional Train Driver, NSW Trainlink
Jakson Sturt-Pavlovich, Operations Supervisor, Pacific National
Andrew Thomson, Rollingstock Engineer, Public Transport Authority of Western Australia (PTAWA)
Matthew Green, Manager Operational Planning, Queensland Rail
Donald Piggott-McKellar, Senior Consultant, RPS Group
Chris French, Program Lead – Transport, Shoal Engineering
Daniel Bennett, Railway Signalling Design Engineer, Siemens
Alex Deng, Principal Consultant, SNC Lavalin
Kelly Iverach, Associate Director Workforce Planning, Sydney Trains
Simon Chandler, Senior Project Manager - Infrastructure Investment Program, TasRail
Shakira Rawat, Junior Bid Manager, Thales Australia
Dannielle Walz, Director, Training Ahead Australia
Amjad Khan, Planning & Performance Coordinator, Transdev Auckland
Ajenta Conrad, Environment and Quality Specialist, Transdev Australasia
Tahnia Littlejohn, Systems Analyst Manager, Transport Canberra City Services
Liam Loriente, Project Manager Delivery, V/Line
Shez Islam, Manager - Technical Services, VicTrack
Thomas Pulsford, Workshop Supervisor, voestalpine VAE Railway Systems Pty Ltd
Jonathan Chan, Permanent Way Engineer, Rail, WSP Australia Pty Ltd
Josef Brennan, Manager, Safety Standards, Assurance & Quality, Yarra Trams