Jonathan joined the AcademyGlobal team in July 2024 and has had a rich career in and around procurement for over 35 years. He has worked as a procurement practitioner, trainer, consultant, author, speaker and thought-leader. And worked on the other side of the negotiating table as head of corporate sales for two airlines and a marketing director of two public companies.

Particularly, Jonathan has developed & delivered innovative and leading edge material for both procurement professionals and sales teams alike – sometimes both at the same time such as ‘The Training Sales Simulator’ he developed for the QANTAS sales team in the 1990s training how to work with procurement managers. Also, Jonathan devised, planned and launched from scratch the CIPSA Training business whilst he was working there as CEO of CIPS in this region between 2004-13 – a business delivering over 250 training days a year at its peak, as the largest provider of public training in procurement in Australia. Whilst he was COO of CIM in the UK, he ran the CIM training business – which was around the 25th largest training company in the UK at the time. In Australia, in the early 1990s, he developed and produced a world class training programme for the Qantas sales team; some of this work was based upon the British Airways in-house programme

He has also developed Learning & Development strategy for significant number of organisations including the design of an entire procurement L&D programme for DFAT through 105 locations worldwide from skills analysis, team assessment and course design. For a growing Australian procurement consultancy, Jonathan designed an assessed training regime and programme for their clients including eLearning, online training support, assessed AQF qualifications and international accreditations. Since 2013, Jonathan has personally developed and delivered several short training courses for over 600 attendees in total. These programmes include private training programmes for organisations such as Holden, DFAT, Victorian Government, Fisher & Paykel, Defence, Aldi, SA Health and many others. He also designed and ran the PASA training programme from 2018 through to the end of 2023.

JD has devised and run his own two-day Strategic Procurement Leadership workshop for procurement managers over 50 times now since 2013. Attendees have included executives from organisations such as Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton, Telstra, Novartis, Foxtel, Vic Government, Petronas, Oil Search, Bluescope, EY, PWC and many others – in fact, over 1,000 attendees.

Jonathan Dutton has gained a reputation for engaging education and presentation work built on real substance and great content, using a wealth of real examples and case studies, delivered in a vibrant, informative and engaging way.