Professor Gary Day is a senior executive with over 35 years experience as a Consultant, Project Manager, Director, and Chief Executive Officer as well as a clinician, academic, researcher, soldier, photographer and author. Gary has worked in both the for-profit and not-for-profit health care sectors across three Australian States as well as the higher education sector including project lead roles in major infrastructure and change management, and organisation-wide roles in workforce development and learning and medical education. Gary played a pivotal role in the development and delivery of an innovative approach to develop leadership capacity and culture change among middle and executive-level health service managers across two states. From 1999-2004, Gary completed his doctoral studies investigating morale amongst the Registered Nurse Workforce in Queensland. Gary’s other research interests include healthcare bureaucracies and complexity theory; organisational resilience in healthcare organisations; work values, organisational commitment and job involvement of healthcare workers; and developing leadership capacity, health manager ethical decision making frameworks and transformational learning. Gary has published numerous book chapters and peer-reviewed research articles. He has spoken at numerous national and international conferences and has undertaken health policy and systems consultancies in Australia, Viet Nam and China.He is a Fellow of the Australasian College of Health Service Management (ACHSM). Gary's recent professional activities include:* Editor-In-Chief - Australian Health Review* State Branch Councillor for the SA branch of the ACHSM* National Board Member of the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association* National Board Member - Deeble Institute of Health Policy* Chair - Clinical Risk and Audit Committee - Adelaide PHN* International Editorial Board Member - Journal of Nursing Management* Associate Editor - Asia-Pacific Journal of Health Management