OUR BOARD

Michael worked in the legal profession for 48 years, 25 years as a solicitor and 23 years as a barristers’ clerk at the Victorian Bar. He was a board member of AFL Sportsready for 13 years, a not for profit group training organisation providing education and employment opportunities to school leavers. He has also been on the boards of and worked with various charitable organisations. He played with the Richmond Football Club from 1966 to 1971 and 1973 to 1975 including the premiership teams in 1967, 1969, 1973 and 1974.

B.Com(Melb.) established LA with a view to inspiring men to be their best. Gareth has been a successful businessman, sportsman, sporting administrator, journalist, writer and father but at various times he has fought his own demons. Based on these experiences through critical years of his life, he is aware of the pitfalls men face and how this can lead to feelings of loss, disillusion, unfulfilment, sadness and depression. LA is a way to guide men through this pathway.

David is a Partner in the Commercial Law Firm, B2B Lawyers. He has worked closely with and within the merchant banking, public company, education and charity sectors for more than 30 years. 

David specialises in corporate fundraising, directors’ duties, ASX Compliance, commercialisation of intellectual property, corporate restructuring, international joint ventures and licensing, estate and succession planning, asset protection, insolvency and corporate work-out and restructuring strategies. He is a director of the NGO Eat Up Limited which is a community-based programme that prepares and delivers lunches to primary school students in need at 500+ schools. David holds a Bachelor of Law (Honours) and Bachelor of Commerce.

A well-known Melbourne identity, Clint has a background in finance, fitness and aged care. With a broad range of interests, Clint can relate to, and understand, the needs of most Australian men. He joins the Board with a focus on developing programs that give men – and women – opportunities to think beyond the confines of the day to day drudgery of modern life.

Clint has worked as a Chartered Accountant, Marketing Manager of Mushroom Records and owned a number of  health clubs. He currently owns Australia’s largest labour supply company, providing Wellbeing staff to Aged Care homes.

Barry Judd is a descendent of the Pitjantjatjara people of north-west South Australia, British immigrants and Afghan cameleers. He is a leading Australian scholar on the Aboriginal participation in Australian sports. He has been awarded a number of category one research grants from the Australian Research Council (ARC) and is published widely.  His research interest straddles several disciplines including history, sociology, political science, public policy and environmental science.  Barry also has a deep interest in the ethical frameworks that govern and direct research engagements with Indigenous peoples.  Barry has an outstanding record of scholarly publication that includes one monograph and two edited book volumes.

Rob is driven by a love of social enterprise, community and technology. With a background in psychology and marketing, he has a passion for social responsibility in business which began well over 30 years ago with his family’s operation of The Body Shop in Australia and New Zealand. His work in various social enterprise and technology initiatives draws experience from the Wise Foundation which established The Big Issue, Buffed and the Wise Barista Program.

Rob believes in good people coming together to achieve great things and takes pride in the strength of relationships and the energy and enthusiasm that surrounds a shared sense of purpose.