This page provides a summary of my professional history
with links to details in different areas of my professional life

1) Socio-systemic management consulting

For further detail see Schedule of clients and projects.

2) Training of group leaders and facilitators

For further details see also workshops delivered

and Workshops available

3) Design and delivery of experiential learning programs

Batchelor of Engineering (Hons): University of Auckland, Graduated 1975.

Over 800 hours of training in psychodrama, sociodrama, sociometry and role training. Over 1500 hours of workshop based training in a range of disciplines such as psychodynamic group work, socio-analysis, consultancy, Eriksonian therapy, NLP, family therapy, mediation and Rogerian counselling.

Six years of professional supervision on my consultancy practice with a registered clinical (psychodynamic) psychologist. For further information see Record of training and education

In 2000 Phil Robinson and I received the "Highly Commended" award for the paper "Robinson, P., & Ringer, T. M. (1999). Caught disaster: Using the layered systems model as a diagnostic tool for wayward software projects. Work Study, 46(1), 211-217.

In 1997 myself and co-author Phil Robinson were awarded an MCB University Press Award for Excellence "The most outstanding paper published in the 1996 volume of Work Study Journal" for the paper Ringer, T. M., & Robinson, P. (1996). Focus and strategic action in management: using a systemic model of organisational culture to inform managerial actions. Work Study, 45(6), 5 - 16.:.

I am currently a self-employed management consultant and group work trainer with clients in many different parts of the world. My business (Martin Ringer Consulting, NZ Ltd.) operates from bases in New Zealand, Australia and France.  I teach each year on the MA (Development Training) at St Martin's College, Ambleside and travel extensively to present workshops and training programmes. . 

From 1990 to 2000 I was operating from Perth as an independent organisational consultant and provider of organisational and therapeutic group process training. In 2001 I moved to Auckland where I worked as a freelance groupwork trainer and management consultant, and then moved to Rotorua where I spent much or 2002 in the role of Head of Programmes, Social Sciences at Waiariki Institute of Technology before returning to freelance consulting and training. I have lectured in the Schools of Social Work at Curtin University and at UWA and I have travelled extensively, conducting over 50 keynote speeches, conference workshops, training programs and consultancy projects in the last five years throughout many parts of the world, and many more prior to that.

For the five years prior to moving from Whangarei, New Zealand to Perth I was Director of Northland Wilderness Experience a community-based bi-cultural outdoor therapeutic program for 'youth at risk.' This role was preceded by four years as Lecturer at Northland Polytechnic in adventure leadership, science, engineering and mathematics. I also had extensive responsibilities in the national vocational examination system. Before entering the education system I had spent five years as a Telecommunications Engineer with the New Zealand Post Office (now Telecom.) This was primarily a managerial role with some technical and planning aspects.

From 1997 to 1999 I held the position of Western Australian representative on the Australian Outdoor Education Council, and I originated and convened the highly successful "First International Adventure Therapy Conference" that was held in Perth during July 1997. Subsequently I have been a member of the International Board responsible for the organization of subsequent International Adventure Therapy conferences: Augsburg Germany April 2000 and the 2003 conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. I am also convenor of the International Working Party on Adventure Therapy which is charged with exploring means of developing effective links between adventure therapists around the world. I have taken leading roles in a number of major workshops and have filled responsible roles in a number peak bodies such as the previous National Parks and Reserves Board for Northland and the Northland Forest Parks Advisory Committee. For further details please contact me directly.

I was for three years a member of the editorial board of an MCB Press (English) Management journal (Work Study), and am currently a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of an Australian outdoor education journal and a British experiential learning journal. I have had dozens of articles published in journals, conference proceedings and in other published works. My book "Group Action:..." was published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers (UK) in 2002. For further details see my record of  Writing and publishing.

I have presented six keynote speeches and over thirty workshops on working with groups and experiential learning at international conferences as well as numerous presentations at National and State conferences. My workshops on various aspects of small group process have been hosted in Western Australia by Curtin University, the College of Organisational Psychologists of the Australian Psychological Society and the Wasley Institute. Numerous other workshops have been hosted by organisations in Ireland, England, Finland, the Netherlands and the USA. For more details see my schedule of  Workshops delivered.