Marcus Powe
Director, eicgrowth pty. ltd.

Marcus is the founder and director of eicgrowth pty ltd. eicgrowth specialises in the growth of industry, community and service organisations and has worked with over 300 organisations in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore to assist them create new strategic choices. Marcus has achieved this by training, coaching and mentoring individuals and teams using an enterprising mindset and the tools of innovation.

In Australia, Marcus also authored and presented innovation and entrepreneurship programs for the Victorian Government Innovation Centre, The Queensland Institute of Manufacturing in Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia – Innovation – A Rapid Products to Market Program and for Global Pacific Learning Australia nationally.

As the inaugural Director of Business Innovation and Enterprise at the De Bono Institute in Melbourne, he combined the powerful creativity tools of Edward de Bono with pragmatic innovation and enterprise strategies he developed, implemented and measured in four countries.

Marcus founded and was Chief Executive Officer of the Centre for Innovation and Enterprise Pty Ltd. This joint venture between Ernst & Young Australia and Swinburne University was a world first. The Centre was rated number one, internationally for the business and wealth creation activities of its post graduate students. He has taught, facilitated and lectured student, business, government and community groups in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa on the topics of innovation, enterprise, strategy and business planning. As the Director of The Pacific Sustainable Enterprise in New Zealand, a global sustainability delivery organisation, he worked with individuals and organisations from seven Pacific nations to create sustainable businesses, organisations and communities. He has recently completed the formation of Chisholm Innovation Creativity (CIC) the first centre dedicated to innovation, creativity and enterprise at a TAFE in Australia.

He has extensive business experience drawn from his successes as a CEO, executive and non-executive director in the textiles, scientific instrument, education, information technology, consumer software development and tourism sectors of the Australian marketplace. He is a trustee of the Committee of Economic Development of Australia.

Marcus has a Bachelor of Business, David Syme Business School and a Master of Enterprise Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology and is completing his PhD on service innovation in large organisations. He is a federal and state government registered management consultant in business planning, export planning, strategic design and organisational diagnostics. He is also a certified de Bono trainer. Marcus has a significant Australian and international lecturing track record in MBA and undergraduate strategy, competitive advantage, international business, strategic marketing, business planning, entrepreneurship and organisational dynamics at Monash, RMIT, Swinburne (Teaching Fellow) and Waikato Universities (Senior Fellow) NZ. He is currently the competition director for the RMIT University International Business Planning competition – Australia’s largest.

Marcus has been consulting and lecturing nationally and internationally for 15 years and was a federal director of the Institute of Management Consultants and their national chair of professional development. As a member of the Australasian Institute of Enterprise Facilitators he regularly works with leaders in organisations and communities to assist their move to the next position of choice in today’s turbulent market place.