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In 2019 Allan was a recipient of the Order of Australia (OAM) on the Queens Birthday Honours List for Contribution to Business and particularly Dispute Resolution.

Allan Parker – Unusual Assignments

• In March 2019, Allan presented a Key Note at the International Arbitration and Mediation Conference in Port Moresby, PNG on ‘Mediation Promoting New Ways of Thinking: From Re-Mediation to Co-Creation – A Partnership Process’ and also a Master Class for Judges, Lawyers and Deputy Chief Justices titled ‘Influencing Thinking, Emotional State Composure, Dissolving Aggression to Maximise Cooperation and Agreement – A new approach through the neuroscience lens’
• In June 2019 Allan was a recipient of the Order of Australia (OAM) on the recent Queens Birthday Honours List for Contribution to Business and particularly Dispute Resolution.
• Multi-Cultural Leadership program for executives from 14 countries around the Asia Pacific region with Dow Thailand, 2015
• In April 2011 he presented one of the Key Note addresses at the Global Speakers Federation, Global Summit in Noordwiek in Holland – “The Magic of Process”
• In 2009 he designed and delivered a Negotiation Development Program Parts I & II for the Australian Commonwealth Government Department of Environment, Water, Heritage & the Arts. This was undertaken in line with their need to up-skill 200 senior beaurocrats to assist with the negotiation and facilitation of the ‘Australian Water Reform Program’ nationwide.
• In April 2009 the National Speakers Association of Australia awarded Allan with the Educator of the Year Excellence Award.
• Moderated 2 meetings at the United Nations World Investment Forum, at the UN Conference on Trade and Development in Accra, Ghana, Africa in 2008.
• Facilitation of Risk & Safety Standards for Energy Australia relating to entering underground risk environments including preventative, operational and remedial considerations.
• Facilitated a global, strategic anti-piracy meeting for Microsoft, Asia Pacific Region
• Developing innovative methodologies to reduce piracy in the software industry in Seoul, Korea.
• Taught more than fifty courses for Microsoft in various Asian countries and Greater China over the past twenty years including, Negotiation, Presentation Skills, Cross Team collaboration and Influencing without Authority.
• Presentation on Alternative Dispute Resolution and its application in the NSW District Court. Co-presented with Prof Tania Sourdin to 20 District Court Judges.
• NSW Bar Association, Bar Entry Course – Allan was a regular presenter over three years on the topic of Advanced Communications to barristers about to enter the Bar.
• “De-escalating Medical Claims Disputes” (Conference Key Note Address), Independent Doctors Forum, Versailles, France.
• “Bedside Manner – A Lost Art” (Conference Key Note Address), Independent Doctors Forum, Royal College of Physicians, London.
• Presentation at HR Summit 2005 “Measurable Behaviour Change – The Missing Link” for Key Media, August 2005, Singapore.
• Mediated approximately 20 Public Policy Community Consultations and large-scale rural environmental dispute on behalf of the New South Wales Government in Australia. These disputes were related to water allocation, native vegetation, use of ground water and irrigation.
• He worked both in a training and a strategic capacity with the Sustainable Energy Authority of Victoria to support the engagement of industry in Energy Sustainability endeavours.
• He is a regular provider of training to Conciliators of the Energy and Water Ombudsman of Victoria and has delivered conference addresses and training to their various organisational Partners conferences over the past 10 years.
• Worked as representative negotiator, facilitator and trainer resolving international joint venture dispute between Western, Asian and Arab investment banking organisations.
• Invitation from the late Emeritus Professor, Roger Fisher, Director of Harvard Negotiation Program, Faculty of Law, Harvard University, to visit the faculty and to sit on the Harvard Negotiation Think Tank.
• Past Vice President and current Board Member of the Australian Dispute Resolution Association.
• Appointed in 1999, by the University of Western Sydney College of Law and Business, to the position of Adjunct Professor for his contribution to the field of Negotiation and Alternative Dispute Resolution.
• Taught several 3-day courses in Advanced Negotiation Skills at the Technical University of Budapest through an interpreter.
• Teaches regularly at the KPMG/BME Academy in Budapest, Hungary, including Advanced Negotiation, Impact of personality in Dispute and Negotiation Skills Train the Trainer.
• Invited to deliver keynote address to the Australian National Speakers Association National Conference 1998 and Co-Presented in 2008. Additionally he received the National Presidents Award.
• Facilitated final plenary meeting during attendance at Australian/ Central European Countries (ACEC) Entrepreneurial Study Mission to the European Union, 8–16 March 2003, Brussels, Hanover, Vienna, Sopron and Budapest.
• Member of the OECD Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) High Level Consultative Committee, Paris, France, whose role it was to bring Governments, Business leaders, politicians and non Government organisations to ratify Global policy for SME’s as part of the Bologna Process.
• Presented the conference address “A World in need of a Global Peace Strategy” at the Australian National Mediation Conference, “Pathways Towards Dispute Management”, 18-20 September 2002, Canberra Australia.
• Moderator for the INSME (International Network for Small to Medium Enterprises) Conference in Barcelona, Spain in 2005 – a joint venture between the Spanish and Italian Governments and the OECD to promote Innovation within the International community of SME’s. “International Cooperation to Seize Innovation Opportunities for SME’s”.
• Performed the role of Strategic Facilitator for the Dept of Industry, Tourism and Resources in the bringing together, in each capital city, representatives from the top 250 energy-using companies in Australia for consultation on Stage 2 of the Energy Efficiency Opportunity Legislation. Aug to Nov 2005.
• 2009 National Speakers Association Australia awarded Allan the Educator of Excellence award.
• 2012 he was the National Speakers Association Australia, Nevin Award Recipient (Australia’s Highest Professional Speakers Award).
• In 2012 he wrote Australia’s first degree in Negotiation for the Australian Catholic University. This degree was approved and accredited in March 2013.
• 2012, for the 3rd time, he delivered the Key Note Address to the Australian National Mediation Conference, “Absolute Flexibility- Make the Model fit the Client, not the Client fit the Model”.
• Delivered the Key Note address to the Beef Research Association, “The Dynamics of Change – Bringing Research to Life”.

Lorem Ipsum: usage

Lorem ipsum is a pseudo-Latin text used in web design, typography, layout, and printing in place of English to emphasise design elements over content. It’s also called placeholder (or filler) text. It’s a convenient tool for mock-ups. It helps to outline the visual elements of a document or presentation, eg typography, font, or layout. Lorem ipsum is mostly a part of a Latin text by the classical author and philosopher Cicero. Its words and letters have been changed by addition or removal, so to deliberately render its content nonsensical; it’s not genuine, correct, or comprehensible Latin anymore. While lorem ipsum‘s still resembles classical Latin, it actually has no meaning whatsoever. As Cicero’s text doesn’t contain the letters K, W, or Z, alien to latin, these, and others are often inserted randomly to mimic the typographic appearence of European languages, as are digraphs not to be found in the original.

In a professional context it often happens that private or corporate clients corder a publication to be made and presented with the actual content still not being ready. Think of a news blog that’s filled with content hourly on the day of going live. However, reviewers tend to be distracted by comprehensible content, say, a random text copied from a newspaper or the internet. The are likely to focus on the text, disregarding the layout and its elements. Besides, random text risks to be unintendedly humorous or offensive, an unacceptable risk in corporate environments. Lorem ipsum and its many variants have been employed since the early 1960ies, and quite likely since the sixteenth century.

Lorem Ipsum: common examples

Most of its text is made up from sections 1.10.32–3 of Cicero’s De finibus bonorum et malorum (On the Boundaries of Goods and Evils; finibus may also be translated as purposes). Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit is the first known version (“Neither is there anyone who loves grief itself since it is grief and thus wants to obtain it”). It was found by Richard McClintock, a philologist, director of publications at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia; he searched for citings of consectetur in classical Latin literature, a term of remarkably low frequency in that literary corpus.

Cicero famously orated against his political opponent Lucius Sergius Catilina. Occasionally the first Oration against Catiline is taken for type specimens: Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? Quam diu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet?

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