Who we are

Cathryn Lloyd - Principal

Cathryn Lloyd is the Principal of Maverick Minds.  Cathryn is passionate about bringing curiosity, inquiry and professional artistry to areas such as creativity, innovation, team development, leadership, and understanding conflict. She has experience in the arts and business and is a skilled facilitator. Cathryn has a background in Graphic Design and managed her own design studio and now brings aspects of design thinking to the workshops she creates and delivers for clients.

She was the Professional Training Manager and Study Abroad Co-ordinator within the commercial business unit of the University of the Arts London and worked with clients such as the BBC, Sony and Bloomberg and various international universities.  She is currently undertaking a doctorate within the Creative Industries Faculty at QUT researching the field of arts-based learning and its application in business.  She is a volunteer guide at the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, yoga practitioner and swims regularly.  She devotes time to her arts practice and is always on the lookout for creative and interesting professional development opportunities.

Cathryn Lloyd CV

Academic Profile

  • Research Doctoral candidate - Doctor of Creative Industries - Queensland University of Technology
  • Bachelor of Arts Degree in Graphic Design, Queensland College of Art, Australia
  • Diploma of Management, Chartered Management Institute, London UK
  • Diploma in Training and Assessment Systems, Southbank TAFE College, Brisbane, Queensland.
  • Workplace Training Certificate IV, Southbank TAFE College, Brisbane, Queensland.

Professional Development

  • Master Class: Making groups safe; making groups live - Moreno Collegium, Brisbane.
  • Facilitative Mediation and Transformative Mediation - Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, Melbourne and Brisbane.
  • The Leadership Challenge: Managing Change Successfully - Banff Leadership Centre, Canada.
  • Graphic Facilitation - Paper Plane Australia, Meeting Magic UK.
  • Various creative, arts and professional development workshops and seminars.

Recent conference presentations and workshops

  • The Need for Professional Artistry in Management Education: the art of knowing what to do when you don't know what to do - The Fourth Art of Management and Organization Conference, Banff Canada, 2008 (paper)
  • Developing Creativity and Innovation in Management Education: an artful event for transformative learning - The Fourth Art of Management and Organization Conference, Banff Canada, 2008 (paper and workshop)
  • Artful Inquiry: a creative and collaborative approach for communities of practice, ACR conference, Atlanta Georgia USA, October 2009 (paper and workshop)
  • Artful Inquiry: What does it mean to be an artful mediation practitioner?, LEADR conference, Melbourne, September 2009 (workshop)

Maverick Minds Colleagues & Collaborators

Maverick Minds has a network of dedicated and highly skilled professional people collaborating to provide you with the best possible approach to achieve the outcomes you need. Read on to find out more about them. We are always looking for the right people to collaborate with.

Dr Sam Hardy

Samantha Hardy is the Principal of Creative Conflict Engagement and Education.  She was the Director of Conflict Resolution and Practice at the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Queensland.  She has practiced and taught conflict resolution for the past twelve years.  She has a passionate interest in conflict resolution education, and particularly reflective practice. Her PhD explored the typical conflict narratives in Western culture (in other words, how we tend to talk about conflict) and the impact of telling these stories on conflict resolution and party well-being.

Dr Cheryl Kerr

Cheryl focuses on Organisational Development and Workforce development. She has experience across business, the arts, and education and combines those into a unique perspective for assisting cross-organisationally. She has served for six years as Principal HR Organisational Development Consultant at Queensland University of Technology. She focuses on staff development in the areas of career, leadership, resilience, change, creative constraint, succession planning, staff retention, performance excellence and management capabilities. She has lectured and consulted at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, University of San Francisco, California, Southern Cross University Business School, Queensland University of Technology, University of Western Australia, University of Tasmania, and throughout Southeast Asia. She is an experienced actor, and taught drama and film-making in Boston, Montreal, Vancouver, New York City, San Francisco, and Coffs Harbour. She has been a business manager and Executive Team member in various professional organisation including accountancy, law, medicine, NGOs, and also consulted to educational institutions and large corporations such as Motorola and DuPont.

Brian Tucker

Brian is a very rare breed of person who straddles the arts and business world with amazing grace. He is a chartered accountant who works specifically with artists and arts organisations providing them with knowledge and wisdom. He is an avid collector of emerging, indigenous and established artists. His art collection is eclectic reflecting his passion and support for the arts.  Brian's collection has been shown in an exhibition entitled Accounting for the Collector.  In the catalogue of the exhibition he is asked the question "Is there a discernible link between accountancy and visual arts?"  Brian replies:

Yes I think there is.  They can both create order out of chaos, or maybe the other way around.  I think artists can take something that is, to my eye, highly ordered, and create something that is chaotic, but out of which that order can still be perceived.  I think on the other hand, they can take something that I would see as being highly chaotic and they can create something coherent.  In the same way, I guess accountants can take chaos and they can create a set of coherent financial statements. 

Dr Polly O. Walker

Polly's research and practice focus on managing conflict through aesthetic approaches: ritual, ceremony and performative processes which draw on four basic peacebuilding principles. She focuses on organizational development related to conflict management, conflict prevention and peacebuilding. She completed a PhD in conflict transformation at the University of Queensland and her findings have been implemented in a number of community and government organizations. Polly has lectured at UQ in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies. She has also completed a research fellowship on the role of ceremony in transforming conflict between Indigenous and Settler peoples in Australia and The United States. She is co-editor of a major anthology of performance peacebuilding, which is currently in press. Currently she is director of Partners in Peacebuilding, a consultancy firm.