Affiliation: Genos Pty Ltd
	Email: ben@genos.com.au

Ben is the founder and a director of Genos Pty Ltd. Genos was formed in 2002 to commercialise the Swinburne University Emotional Intelligence Test developed by Ben for his PhD thesis together with his supervisor Professor Con Stough. Since founding the business, Ben has grown Genos to be recognised as one of BRW’s Fastest 100 Growing Australian Businesses. The business has grown 100% year on year since 2003. The success of the business has been founded on Ben’s ability to bring a team of people together and lead them in the design, sale and distribution of psychological products and services.

Through his work at Genos Ben has lead the design of products for the recruitment, development, and career transition of employees. He has also been instrumental in the development of distribution channels for the products, which are sold through local distributors in New Zealand, the United States the United Kingdom and throughout Asia. The products are used by organisations to enhance performance, leadership, sales, teamwork and interpersonal skills. In April 2006 Ben’s emotional intelligence sales development product received the Learning and Development Achievement Award by the Australian Institute of Training and Development for an “outstanding contribution to the practice of learning and development”.

Ben is also a widely recognised academic expert on emotional intelligence. He has an extensive publication list in the area, has been invited to contribute chapters to books and guest edit special issues of journals on the topic. His research has also attracted considerable attention locally witnessed by awards such as the Richard Pratt Scholarship, an Australian Postgraduate Award, and a PhD Thesis-Excellence award.

Outside of work, Ben enjoys wine-tasting, political discussions and a round of golf whenever work allows.  With a keen interest in people and culture, Ben is also an avid international traveller.

For further information regarding Genos or an interview with Ben, please contact Marie Najjar at Markson Sparks on 0408 687 688 / marie@marksonsparks.com.

Palmer, B.R., Gignac, G., Bates, T., & Stough, C. (2003). Examining the structure of the Trait Meta-Mood Scale. Australian Journal of Psychology, 55, p154-159.

Palmer, B.R., Donaldson, C. & Stough, C. (2002). Emotional intelligence and life satisfaction. Personality and Individual Differences, 33, 1091- 1100.

Palmer, B.R., Manocha, R., Gignac, G., & Stough, C. (2003). Examining the factor structure of the Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory with an Australian general population sample. Personality and Individual Differences, 35, 1191-1210.

Palmer, B.R., Stough, C., & Patterson, P. (1999). A delivery system for olfactory stimuli. Behaviour Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 31, 674-679.

Palmer, B. R., Walls, M., Burgess, Z., & Stough, C. (2001). Emotional intelligence and effective leadership, Leadership and Organisational Development Journal, 22, 5-10.

Palmer, B.R., Gardner, L., & Stough, C. (2003). Measuring emotional intelligence in the workplace. Emotional Intelligence in Organisations, Published by ICCM ISBN: 0-86396828-7.

Palmer, B.R., & Stough, C. (2000). The Swinburne University Emotional Intelligence Test: Technical Manual, Published by SUT.

Palmer, B.R., Gignac, G., Manoch, R., & Stough, C (2006). A psychometric evaluation of the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test Version 2.0. Intelligence, 33, 285-305.

Palmer, B.R. (2007). Models and measures of emotional intelligence. Organisations and People, 14, 3-10.

Jennings, S. & Palmer, B.R. (2007). Enhancing sales performance through emotional intelligence development. Organisations and People, 14, 55-61.

Gignac, G., Palmer, B.R., Manoch, R., & Stough, C. An examination of the factor structure of the schutte self-report emotional intellignce (SSREI) scale via confirmatory factor analysis. Personality & Individual Differences, 39, 1029-1042.

Palmer, B.R., Gignac, G., Ekermans, G., & Stough, C. A comprehensive framework for emotional intelligence. In Robert Emmerling, Manas K. Mandal & Vinod K. Shanwal (Eds). Emotional Intelligence: Theoretical & Cultural Perspectives. (in press).