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Mr Tim Curtis

RSL WA | Co-Opted Member

Mr Tim Curtis

Tim is a senior consultant with more than twenty years of leadership and management experience including a first career with the Special Air Service (SAS) Regiment.  Tim was appointed as Australia’s first principal adviser to the Government of Sierra Leone in 2001 during a protracted period of civil war.  Following this, he was personally selected to raise a sensitive and time-critical Australian national counter terrorist capability (2002).

Tim then was a lead planner of the Afghan Parliamentary Elections (2005) for the United Nations in Afghanistan and a subsequent 9 years as the Managing Director of a group of 42 companies based from Dubai with an annual turnover of AUD100m. In this period Tim also raised and led a team providing the crisis management and crisis response capability to a major insurance underwriter. In this capability his specialist team supported 3,600 policyholders globally and responded to up to 70-time critical incidents a year.

In 2018, he co-founded the Mettle Group of companies delivering leadership, teamwork, resilience, crisis management and strategic advisory services to 100 clients a year worldwide.

Tim holds a Bachelor of Arts (History/ Politics) and a Master of Business Administration.  He has formal risk management qualifications and also holds a Graduate Diploma of Operations Management, an Associate Diploma of Personnel Administration, a Graduate Certificate of Project Planning and a Certificate in Vocational Instruction.

Tim is also Adjunct faculty for the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) @UNSW Business School and delivers leadership and other executive education programs on behalf of the AGSM.

Tim is an Advisory Board Member for the Starlight Children’s Foundation in Australia and a Board Member of the RSL in Western Australia. He is also a Company Director of four private companies and a co-author of the book, The Resilience Shield, published by Pan Macmillan in July 2021.

a gift for the future

"There are several reasons why we decided to leave a gift in our Will to RSL WA. We always try to support local veterans and we have two children currently serving in the Defence force. My grandfather was in the 16th battalion and was a soldier settler post WWI. He was an active member of his local RSL for many years."
Bruce and Betty Smith, Perth

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