Glen Mckernan

Current roles: 

GM Growth Consulting Managing Director

Last role at Charter Hall:

Head of Property Management – Office & Industrial    

2007 – 2016

What career achievement are you most proud of?

I have two.  Working at Charter Hall with great people in the early years of growing asset / property management and then starting my own Consulting business after Charter Hall.  

What is the most valuable lesson you learnt during your time at Charter Hall?

New equity flows creates a real and lasting funds under management platform.  Charter Hall always had multiple sources of new equity for new assets and funds.

Who would sit around the table at your ideal dinner party?

My parents, family, Doc Neeson, Paul Hogan and John Cornell.

What are you currently working on that has you excited?

A future highest and best use development review for an existing asset immediately opposite the new Metro station in Parramatta.

Our Alumni is founded on the idea of ‘Connection for life’, how have you embraced this?

I still catch up with people from Charter Hall with whom I worked with and am also meeting new people at Charter Hall via the work they do with the Property Council of Australia or other groups such as Women in Industrial.  

What inspired your move into consulting, and what’s been your biggest learning along the way?

The main inspiration for my consulting business was to be able to be flexible and work with different groups on a variety of different projects.  Nothing against a full time gig but I just felt after my time at Charter Hall that I could put to great use what experience and skills I had developed over the years.

With your focus on change management and business improvement, how do you see technology and AI reshaping the way organisations work?

My hope is that AI reshapes and helps researchers find solutions to complex problems in medicine.  For the property industry I still believe the best managers will be those that have good people who are good thinkers and communicators in their own right without needing a bot.

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