Staff / Christine Haines
Christine Haines is the owner and CEO of Miles Morgan. She is widely recognised for her contribution to the development of public policy on career development. Christine’s senior executive roles include:
- Executive Director, DFEEST
- Executive Advisor, DFEEST
- Director of Policy, Homeswest
- Interim Executive Director, Western Australian Council of Social Services
As company director and project manager at Miles Morgan, she has provided consultation, research and policy development services to industry, education and training, community and government organisations throughout Australia since 1994, and provided advice to Commonwealth and State/Territory governments, primarily on vocational education and training and related career and workforce development issues. Christine takes hands on responsibility for all Miles Morgan projects as part of our approach to quality assurance.
Holding a Bachelor of Arts and Graduate Diploma of Education from the University of Western Australia, Christine has an extensive background in education and training both as a practitioner, a policy formulator and evaluator in the schools sector, the ACE sector and in VET. She has worked to further vocational education and training and career development in Australia in a number of different employment roles, and has a commitment to the education and training field that goes far beyond the commercial interests of her company.
Early in her career, she was State Co-ordinator of the New Opportunities for Women Program (a career development program), and as a VET and labour market researcher in government she developed many career initiatives for young women in non-traditional trades. She also established a local neighbourhood learning centre, which provides a bridge between informal and formal learning for its members.
Her later career has involved working as a senior executive in the vocational education and training sector for more than 10 years. She was a joint chief executive of Miles Morgan Australia from its founding until 2005, when she became the sole chief executive.
From 2004 to 2005, she returned to government as the Executive Director, Employment and Skills Formation, for the South Australian Department of Further Education, Employment, Science, and Technology. In this role she had responsibility for VET and employment services and in these roles she sought to improve career development services in South Australia. Up until early May 2007, she remained a part-time Executive Advisor to DFEEST.
Christine’s extensive experience working in a range of spheres within the education and training sector—from senior executive in an education department to volunteer in a community learning centre—has afforded her a deep appreciation of the value of innovative and responsive learning programs and policies, and the crucial role of flexible education, training and career development services in enabling individuals to reach their potential. Her commitment to enhancing the quality of learning experiences—and thereby the quality of life—of individuals throughout Australia is a key underpinning principle of Miles Morgan’s company ethos.
Christine oversees and is involved in all projects Miles Morgan undertakes, but some of her most recent projects include the development, trialling and refinement of the Australian Blueprint for Career Development - a national framework for career development services in Australia; an environmental scan of the labour market issues facing young people in the South West of Western Australia; and the provision of advice to the National Quality Council on the integration of equity principles and practices into all NQC business processes.
The varied and multifaceted nature of Christine’s own career reflects the changing nature of life, learning and work that Miles Morgan is committed to helping people manage. It also illustrates the importance of appreciating all of life’s twists and turns as part of a broader career process:
“One of my best decisions was to buy a flower shop mid-life, after retraining to be a florist – something my parents and teachers had counselled me against as they channelled me into university. After several years of fun and hard work as the Flowersmith, I was inveigled back into the world of public policy. I suspect that, had that not happened, I’d still be very happily trying to help people at significant moments of their lives... with flowers not policies!”
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