An Associate at IKD and the founder and Director of Photodrama™, Miles is also the Principal of Standish Legal, a boutique private legal practice.
Miles has been a passionate fine art and portrait photographer for over 30 years, and trained at the highly-regarded fine art photography course at Prahran College (now Victorian College of the Arts) in the mid-1980s. However, a series of unpredictable events found him becoming a lawyer.
Prior to establishing his businesses in 2010, Miles had a 15-year legal career. Initially in private practice at Mallesons, a major Australian commercial law firm, and then from 2000 to 2010 as a senior corporate lawyer at National Australia Bank. At NAB, Miles led a team of six lawyers supporting the NAB Group’s IT and IP legal requirements, in addition to procurement, commercial contracting, marketing, brand and sponsorship activities, outsourcing and offshoring. For the final 15 months of Miles’s career with NAB, he was General Counsel of Serv Co Pty Ltd, supporting the CEO and Board of a start-up global subsidiary of the NAB Group, empowered to transform the service culture, and leverage Group synergies, within the NAB Group.
Photodrama is a unique photo-media consultancy, integrating photographic portraiture with executive leadership, professional and personal development programs. This innovative methodology delivers rich personal, and organisational, insights. The unique premise of Photodrama is that the process of confronting and engaging with meaningful images of oneself creates a profound and fertile space for self-reflection, honest questioning and, ultimately, genuine self-awareness: a critical precondition for truly effective leadership. When shared amongst colleagues and team members, the images generate authentic trust and intimacy; again, a necessary precondition of an effective team.
Miles has worked with IKD faculty members to deliver the Photodrama experience to senior executives via The Leadership Consortium; to multi-disciplinary consulting practitioners via Melbourne Business School; and to a “big four” accounting firm.
