Headquarters:
65 Riverend Road, Bangholme, Vic 3175
Year founded:
2012
Number of employees:
150
Phone:
03 9781 9000
Email:
office@cornishcollege.vic.edu.au
Website:
cornishcollege.vic.gov.au
LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/school/cornish-college
“We put our customers at the centre of our business, responding to brokers in a proactive and timely manner and working with the customer to understand their unique risk profile and tailor appropriate solutions”
Erica Kofie, QBE
Nicola Forrest
Principal
Laurent Julicher
Deputy Principal – Head of Learning
Lucas Johnson
Director of Design Futures
Leadership
Nicola Forrest is an innovative education leader and principal of Cornish College, where she is dedicated to reshaping the future of schooling. Working closely with her team, she challenges traditional models of education, always asking how schools can better serve the needs of young people and prepare them for a sustainable future. Her focus is on redefining what’s possible in education, encouraging a creative and transformative approach to leadership. By engaging the entire learning community, Forrest strives to foster an environment where every student can thrive and where education is truly impactful, relevant and forward-thinking.
Principal
Nicola Forrest
Laurent Julicher is a seasoned educator who joined the Cornish College community in early 2020 as director of student learning and a humanities teacher. Since then, he has transitioned into the role of deputy principal – head of learning, where he is dedicated to preserving and enhancing Cornish’s unique and distinctive learning experience. Julicher plays a key role in championing the school’s Design Futures initiative, a core element of the Cornish curriculum that integrates creativity, innovation and real-world problem-solving across all learning areas. He is passionate about fostering a collaborative and forward-thinking educational environment that truly engages both students and staff.
Deputy Principal – Head of Learning
Laurent Julicher
Lucas Johnson joined the Cornish College community at the start of 2024 as director of Design Futures. Before this, he worked with the Faculty of Education at Monash University, partnering with local and international educators to develop innovative strategies that improve learning experiences. Johnson is also pursuing a PhD, researching how schools can better support teachers as innovators in curriculum and pedagogy. He is passionate about his role at Cornish, where he is deeply engaged in fostering creativity, innovation and a strong sense of community. Johnson is excited by the opportunity to shape an educational environment that empowers both students and educators alike.
Director of Design Futures
Lucas Johnson
“We put our customers at the centre of our business, responding to brokers in a proactive and timely manner and working with the customer to understand their unique risk profile and tailor appropriate solutions”
Erica Kofie, QBE
“We continue to see cyber as a key opportunity and will be further developing customer-centric solutions across various geographies and segments in line with our growth aspirations”
Erica Kofie, QBE
Leadership
“We continue to see cyber as a key opportunity and will be further developing customer-centric solutions across various geographies and segments in line with our growth aspirations”
Erica Kofie, QBE
“We put our customers at the centre of our business, responding to brokers in a proactive and timely manner and working with the customer to understand their unique risk profile and tailor appropriate solutions”
Erica Kofie, QBE
Leadership
Sue O'Connor
Director of Student Wellbeing K-12
Sue O'Connor is the director of student wellbeing K-12 at Bishop Druitt College, where she has devoted 25 years to fostering student wellbeing. Originally a hospitality teacher, her passion for creating a positive school environment led her to introduce initiatives like Barkley, the Wellbeing Support dog, to enhance student happiness. O'Connor aims to help students reach their intellectual, spiritual, physical, emotional and social potential. Her focus on wellbeing encourages students to be responsible, make informed choices and understand their rights and responsibilities while fostering respect for others.
Director of Student Wellbeing K-12
Sue O'Connor
Lyndal Runge
Deputy Principal – Secondary
With extensive experience spanning both the Catholic and independent education sectors across Australia, Lyndal Runge is proud to contribute her expertise to an award-winning, 5-staff Innovative School team. In her role as deputy principal – secondary at Balcombe Grammar, she works to empower the school’s staff to cultivate adaptability and innovation across all aspects of secondary school. Runge is dedicated to enhancing the capabilities of both educators and students, eagerly taking on the task of leading innovation in alignment with the school’s strategic vision. Her passion for the future of education shines through as she strives to create an educational environment that encourages all community members to embrace the excitement and challenges of tomorrow.
Deputy Principal – Secondary
Lyndal Runge
Cornish College is an inclusive, supportive and cohesive community committed to always questioning the status quo to ensure the “how” connects strongly with the “why”. This results in an innovative culture and a commitment to doing what is best for the community, not what is easiest.
“To prepare our students for the complexities of tomorrow, we’re embracing an educational approach that values and actively cultivates important future-minded skills and dispositions,” says principal Nicola Forrest. “We know that our teachers need to be excellent designers of curriculum to ensure that school remains engaging and relevant for young people.”
At the forefront of the college’s approach are transferrable skills such as:
“We continue to see cyber as a key opportunity and will be further developing customer-centric solutions across various geographies and segments in line with our growth aspirations”
Erica Kofie, QBE
Kylie Quinlivan
General Counsel and Company Secretary
Keith Schlosser
Global Chief Information Officer
Dan Draper
Group Chief Underwriting Officer
Simon Williams
Chief Strategy & Distribution Officer, Arch Insurance International
and Active Underwriter, Syndicate 1955
Kylie Quinlivan is general counsel and company secretary of hipages Group and a member of the executive team. This is her second role as general counsel of an ASX-listed company. Quinlivan is a top-tier trained corporate lawyer with over 17 years of experience in public and private M&A/transactional work, fundraising, and corporate governance. She is commercially oriented, curious, and with a demonstrated ability to understand complex matters quickly and communicate simply. Quinlivan is excited by hipages’ growth potential, its entrepreneurial spirit and conviction for creating a unique culture. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce/Laws (Honours) and a Master of Laws from the University of Sydney.
General Counsel and Company Secretary
Kylie Quinlivan
Keith Schlosser is global chief information officer at AXIS Capital, where he leads the company’s global information technology and data strategy. He is also responsible for driving change throughout the organisation by delivering high-quality, future-oriented IT services in line with AXIS Capital’s business strategy. Schlosser has more than 30 years of insurance industry experience, spanning roles in information technology, business solutions, marketing and sales. Prior to AXIS, he served as chief information officer for Chubb’s Overseas General Insurance division, where he spearheaded a number of growth, innovation, digital and change initiatives. Before that, he served as CIO at The Travelers Companies international division. Schlosser was also a vice president for marketing technology and web communications at AIG.
Global Chief Information Officer
Keith Schlosser
Dan Draper was appointed group chief underwriting officer in September 2022. He had previously served for more than two years as group head of underwriting at AXIS. Prior to that, he had been group chief risk and actuarial officer at VIBE. Before joining VIBE, Draper spent eight years with AXIS, holding a number of leadership roles that included group chief actuary, chief risk analytics officer, and insurance segment chief risk officer. Before that, he held managerial positions at the Financial Services Authority, XL Capital, and EY.
Group Chief Underwriting Officer
Dan Draper
Kimi leads the Estate Planning and Wealth Protection team and is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. She understands the complex and delicate nature of family estate planning, the technical requirements around probate and estate administration, and the importance of preserving wealth for future generations. Her advice is accurate, commercial, strategic and tailored to each situation.
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Kimi Shah
Kimi leads the Estate Planning and Wealth Protection team and is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. She understands the complex and delicate nature of family estate planning, the technical requirements around probate and estate administration, and the importance of preserving wealth for future generations. Her advice is accurate, commercial, strategic and tailored to each situation.
Partner
Kimi Shah
Kimi leads the Estate Planning and Wealth Protection team and is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. She understands the complex and delicate nature of family estate planning, the technical requirements around probate and estate administration, and the importance of preserving wealth for future generations. Her advice is accurate, commercial, strategic and tailored to each situation.
Partner
Kimi Shah
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The program is about creating stories: each student’s story takes on its own narration and is written through exploration, trial and error, embracing mistakes, identifying problems and seeking solutions.
The Design Futures initiative enhances the concept-based curriculum, helping students to understand the real-life impact of their learning. Programs are designed to engage students in a meaningful education that develops the skills and dispositions necessary to tackle complex problems, ensuring their academic journey is deeply connected to the world around them.
Forrest says, “We are threading the principles of Design Futures throughout our entire school with a well-articulated story around what curriculum innovation looks like for each stage of schooling. A major step forward for Design Futures in 2025 will see Cornish College becoming a research hub for sustainability and environmental conservation in line with the Design Futures principles.”
critical thinking
curiosity
risk-taking
collaboration
communication
adaptability
creativity
Forrest adds, “We know that preparing students for the future requires a departure from traditional norms and the courage to challenge prevailing paradigms in education today. Therefore, we’re challenging the status quo of education and continually evolving our practices to meet the needs of tomorrow head-on.”
The innovation approach is centred around the why and engages various stakeholders and often engages critical thinking tools. An area Cornish College has innovated is the curriculum.
“Schools often innovate in the areas of pedagogy, systems and structures and spaces for learning, but the actual curriculum is often left unexamined, and heavy reliance on a curriculum framework (eg the Victorian Curriculum) results in limited innovation,” says Forrest.
This has led to the college’s Design Futures program, which gives teachers permission to innovate the curriculum and bring relevant skills, such as systems thinking and design thinking, into the curriculum and to also weave in student voice and choice.
The guiding principles include:
Taking learning beyond the prescribed boundaries of study designs and curriculum frameworks
Challenging the status quo of schooling and education to seek more than a score
Creating opportunities for learners to work independently and collaboratively with peers, stewards and designated industry mentors
Honouring a student-led curriculum that accommodates deep inquiry and transferrable skills and understandings to build agency at and beyond school
Focusing on developing systems thinking for sustainability, design thinking, ecological literacies and communication skills for transfer and adaptability beyond school
Design Futures Team
Like all successes that we celebrate at Cornish College, our Design Futures innovation has been a team effort. We are so fortunate to have many creative and critical thinkers at Cornish and, as such, our initiatives always call on the collective minds and wisdom of teams to create change, challenge the status quo and work collaboratively to achieve transformative results. The Design Futures innovation is the collective work of a team of curriculum designers and trail blazers, from teaching and non-teaching staff at Cornish College. The Design Futures stewards and curriculum leaders have worked together to evolve this initiative, creating a strong narrative for curriculum innovation throughout the whole school.
(L-R) Julie Cooper, Tom Humphreys, Hayley Cornish, Tim Edmonds, Sarah Dodd, Megan Webber, Jeanette Russell (Absent) Lauren Zeigler
