Dr Timothy Colin Bednall is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management and Marketing at Swinburne University of Technology. He previously worked at the Australian School of Business at the University of New South Wales. Dr Bednall is a registered psychologist, with an area of practice endorsement in organisational psychology. He is the former national Chair of the APS College of Organisational Psychologists (2015-2018). Dr Bednall's broad research area is employee learning, expertise and innovation.

Paul has over 30 years of industry experience working in Banking and Finance, Telecommunications, Manufacturing, Retail, Logistics, Utilities and Management Consulting. Operating at senior levels, Paul sought a deeper understanding of human cognition and behaviour to apply in his people leadership roles by undertaking undergraduate and Honours studies in Psychological Sciences at Swinburne University of Technology. He is now embarking on PhD studies to further his credentials. At the onset of the COVID pandemic in 2020, Paul led a team of 200+ people at a large financial organisation through a significant workplace location change, pivoting overnight to working from home and then developing a hybrid-working cadence when COVID restrictions eased. Noticing variations in wellbeing and self-determination needs in his colleagues, Paul subsequently conducted research in his workplace in 2021 to measure the effects of hybrid work choices and worker needs on employee wellbeing.