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ABOUT US
OUR CORE Business
The Australian Graduate School of Leadership (AGSL) specialises in designing and delivering flexible senior leadership development programs, as well as accredited postgraduate degree courses in conjunction with Torrens University Australia. AGSL also offers leadership development and strategic advisory services to organizations and their senior personnel,.
With “learning by doing” at the core of AGSL’s pedagogy, courses are aimed at stimulating critical thinking and innovative capabilities. Structured synchronous and asynchronous learning experiences, supplemented by extensive online course materials, enable participants under significant time pressures to study at anytime, anywhere. This enables today’s executives, with their unpredictable travel commitments and fluctuating workloads, to integrate their study commitments successfully into their lives.
IMIA Centre for Strategic Business Studies develops and offers accredited postgraduate degree courses on behalf of and in conjunction with university partners. In addition, it offers short courses, business briefings and innovation facilitation and advisory services. As with the AGSL, course materials are provided to participants online.
Our History
The Australian Graduate School of Leadership has a proud history of delivering postgraduate educational courses in Australia, extending back over 50 years. The company was first established as the International Marketing Institute of Australia Ltd (IMIA) by five pre-eminent Australian corporations, seeking customised post-graduate-level courses for their senior management teams, the like of which was not available in Australia at that time. Those founding companies were Amatil (later Cocoa-Cola Amatil), Australian Paper Manufacturers (APM), Colonial Sugar Refineries (CSR), Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) and the Bank of New South Wales (Australia’s first and oldest bank - now Westpac).
IMIA’s first Faculty Director was a former Dean of Admissions at the Harvard Business School in USA and IMIA’s faculty was initially contracted from the Harvard Business School and other major US and European business schools. By the mid-1980s a strong contingent of Australian faculty had been brought onboard, under the leadership of Dr. Ramzi Fayed who was appointed Faculty Director in 1984, appointed a Director of the IMIA in 1990 and who continues to serve the AGSL in the capacity of Executive Director as he approaches his 40th year of dedicated service.
In 1990 the IMIA became accredited by the Affiliate Universities Program, comprising Sydney University, Charles Sturt University and the University of New England, to offer accredited post-graduate diplomas and degrees. At that time the IMIA became an independent, post-graduate centre for strategic business studies. In the following year IMIA opened its own campus in Sydney’s CBD. In 2010 IMIA refined its core business to become the Australian Graduate School of Leadership (AGSL) and established its sole subsidiary, the IMIA Centre for Strategic Business Studies. The AGSL has now been offering post-graduate diplomas, master’s degrees and doctoral degrees, fully accredited by the Tertiary Education and Quality Standards Agency, for over 30 years. Several of its early graduates are longstanding members of its professorial staff.
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IMIA develops and offers accredited postgraduate degree courses on behalf of and in conjunction with university partners. Course materials are provided online, allowing participants to study any time and anywhere they have internet access.