Professor Rodney St Hill

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  • Professor Rodney St Hill is the former President of Leaders Institute (2018-2020) and serves as Senior Pastor (2016-current) at IgniteLife Church Gold Coast, where he heads IgniteLife Business, an outreach to Christians in business. He is a leader in the global Business As Mission movement. He also consults on governance and executive management in higher education and business, with a particular special interest in Christian education institutions and businesses.

    Previously, Professor St Hill was a long-term senior leader and Vice President Academic of Christian Heritage College, Brisbane. With the input of his colleagues and many others in his network, he developed business curriculum that embeds the ‘5 P missional business’ model – a model of production, people, planet, and profit. He was also Dean of Students, among other roles, at University of Southern Queensland (1993-2009).

    QUALIFICATIONS

    • Doctor of Philosophy, University of Cantebury, 1989
    • Bachelor of Commerce (Hons 1), University of Newcastle, 1979

    EXTERNAL EXPERT REVIEWER

    • External Member, various course assessment panels in business, management and leadership at Alphacrucis College, Australian College of Divinity, and Avondale University College, 2014 to 2020
    • Member: Australian Institute of Company Directors

    COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE

    • Member: Economic Society of Australia
    • External Expert, Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), 2019-current

  • Professor St Hill has published over 40 papers and book chapters and supervised 17 successful research theses. He has held directorships at non-profit and for-profit organisations and mentors business and church leaders. He is a member of the Council for Business and Theology and travels extensively to speak on missional business. He was a leader at the Business As Mission Global Congress in 2013 and at the Lausanne Consultation on Wealth Creation for Transformation 2017.

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  • UNIT COORDINATOR

    • EC312 International Economic Development
    • EC501 International Economic Development

    UNITS APPROVED TO TEACH

    • AC101 Accounting I
    • AC201 Accounting II
    • AC213 Corporate Accounting
    • AC314 Financial Reporting
    • MK101 Marketing
    • MG101 Management
    • MG301 Strategic Management Planning
    • OB223 Organisational Behaviour