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“Westfield Specialty and I have been trying to make sure we are opportunistic in the marketplace and that has allowed us to grow profitably and create a broader and more diversified portfolio”
Jack Kuhn
Westfield Specialty
Irrespective of their titled position, Ben Moody is adamant that effective school leaders need a spring in their step and a song in their heart. As the current leader of teaching and learning in the senior school at St Michael’s Grammar School, he draws on years of leadership experience in the performing arts to breathe life, energy and creativity into curriculum, pedagogy and assessment.
The scope and ambition of Moody’s work have always been grand. For many years, he developed longstanding creative partnerships with schools across the USA, Canada, Europe and China, regularly leading month-long, life-changing student performance tours. Along the way, he developed an enduring appetite for embracing new systems and methods, investigating novel ways to credit the deep learning that takes place in experiential and cocurricular contexts. For this, he was acknowledged as a finalist in the 2016 Victorian Education Excellence Awards.
Having recently completed a Master of Instructional Leadership at the University of Melbourne, Moody now leads a high-functioning team of academic experts in embedding the St Michael’s Teaching, Learning and Caring Framework across the school. In his typically present, engaging and pragmatic fashion, he is excited to further his career focus of recognising the breadth of ways in which young people can demonstrate growth, progress and competency.
25 Chapel St, St Kilda
03 8530 3254
bmoody@stmichaels.vic.edu.au
linkedin.com/in/ben-moody-edu
stmichaels.vic.edu.au
Ben Moody
Director of Curriculum (7–12)
St Michael’s Grammar School
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“The biggest challenge is getting everyone comfortable with the pace that I’m looking for to drive our buildout and growth. How I deal with it is by being open and transparent, and responsive to questions or concerns”
Jack Kuhn
Westfield Specialty
2001–2010
2011–2016
2017–2022
2023
Present
2001: Graduated with a BMus and DipEd from Monash University and began teaching career in Kent, UK
2005–2010: Several teaching roles and positions of leadership in student management at Ringwood Secondary College, Melbourne
2001–
2010
2011–2016: Director of Performing Arts at Ringwood Secondary College
2015: Director of Oliver! at RSC, awarded Junior Production of the Year by the Music Theatre Guild of Victoria
2016: Finalist, Victorian Education Excellence Awards
2011–
2016
2017–2022: Director of Performing Arts at St Michael’s Grammar School, St Kilda, Melbourne
2018: Commissioned, original choral composition performed by St Michael’s touring choir at Vienna’s Musikverein
2017–
2022
Graduated with a Master of Instructional Leadership from the University of Melbourne
2023
Director of Curriculum (7–12) at St Michael’s Grammar School since 2022
Present
Assistant Vice President and Senior Broker at MJ Hall & Company since 2018
Present
Milestones
Aug 2022
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Sept 2021
Feb 2022
Apr 2022
Jul 2022
Aug
2022
Suncorp Bank introduces Solar Home Bonus offer for customers who are choosing renewable energy for their homes
Sept 2021
Month-on-month market share growth commences
Feb 2022
Suncorp Bank wins the Canstar award for most outstanding value in investment loans
Apr 2022
Suncorp Bank wins Money Magazine’s Bank of the Year and Business Bank of the Year awards for the fifth year in a row
Jul 2022
Suncorp Bank’s turnaround times are the lowest they have ever been. The lender becomes Australia’s first certified carbon neutral bank for both its operation and transaction services
Aug 2022
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