With shared experience at senior levels in sport education, development and management in Australia and New Zealand we partnered in 2005 to create Dangerous Minds.
We are dedicated to sport management thinking and the development of innovative education & training products for the sport & recreation sector.
When you contract Dangerous Minds you are working with two dedicated professionals who are easy to deal with. Danya and Robert are focused on achieving the outcomes you seek when you decide to engage consultants.
We encourage you to explore our site and learn more about us and contact us [thinkers at dangerousminds dot com dot au] if you would like to learn more about how we can help you.
Danya Hodgetts, BSc(Hons) MBA PhD
Danya Hodgetts is a sport manager, lecturer and researcher who strives to combine practitioner skills and industry experience with theory, best practice and research. In her roles as National Development Manager with Surf Life Saving Australia, and Regional Manager with the Australian Sports Commission, Danya lead teams that implemented programs in coaching, officiating, club & school participation, high performance and member development.
For the past five years, Danya has been a Lecturer and Program Director of Health and Exercise Studies at Central Queensland University. This tenure gave her greater insight into sport management through facilitating the learning of future sport managers and researching the discipline. Danya’s enthusiasm for technology allowed her to implement innovative online learning programs for students and conduct research in the area of social viral marketing and sport education accessibility. She has an Honours Degree in Human Movement Science, a Masters in Business Administration and is completing a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) examining how major events can be leveraged to create legacies for community sport.
Throughout this time, Danya continued to interact and consult with the industry, working with a range of Australian and New Zealand sporting organisations and government bodies in the areas of strategic planning and review, sport development and education and training.
Danya is obsessive about organisation, delivering real outcomes and making things happen. She is passionate about sport and its ability to generate social change. She is not an elite athlete.
Robert Barnes, BA GradDip MBA
Robert’s experience is in primarily in Association Management having taken on his first Association role as a 19 year old. From that Development Officer role he progressed through regional and national Association management roles before landing the role of General Manager for Surf Life Saving Tasmania in 2000.
His Association Executive career received a major boost when in 2001 he was appointed Chief Executive of Surf Life Saving New Zealand (Northern Region). With a team of 10 FTE and casual workforce of over 100 and a turnover of NZD$4M this was a great test for Robert at just 29 years of age.
Through appointments as Chief Executive of Australian Canoeing Inc. and Executive Officer for the NSW Fitness Industry Association he has developed a niche for innovation in Association Management and respect in consulting to Associations. Robert’s skills and experience at executive levels in Australian and international Associations landed him the GM-Operations role for the emerging Fitness Australia – the national health and fitness industry Association.
Robert believes the only way to authentically consult to Associations is to work in them hence him maintaining both a roster of Dangerous Minds clients as well as a full time contract with Fitness Australia.
Examples of our work include the following resources. Click on the images to see the work in action.
