Mr Barry Rogers

Chair, Food & Fibre Gippsland
https://www.foodandfibregippsland.com.au/

Barry Rogers is the Chair of Food & Fibre Gippsland Inc, contributing many years of Board, industry, and community experience in Gippsland.

Food & Fibre Gippsland Inc. was formed in March 2019, a result of the amalgamation of Agribusiness Gippsland and the East Gippsland Food Cluster which created a united, collaborative powerhouse. Our mission is to lead capacity building, innovation and knowledge sharing for the greater good of the sector across the whole of Gippsland. F&FG members, industry partners and stakeholders are at the core of everything we do – their success and prosperity is what drives us every day.

Barry volunteers in other ways too: supporting young people and the environment; as chair of the Latrobe Youth Space Inc., Baw Baw Communities that Care and Rotary District 9820 Youth Exchange Program committee. He is a board member of the Baw Baw Latrobe Local Learning and Employment Network, member of the Warragul Regional College Council and of West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority’s Community Engagement Network subcommittee.

He’s been a part of the Gippsland Community Leadership Program for over 25 years; alumnus, board member/chair, executive director, and program manager: espousing the theme “Growing Gippsland’s Leaders”.

He is a leadership developer, trainer, and coach at business consultancy Aerium Pty Ltd. As an accredited 5 Behaviours of Cohesive Teams and NLP (Neuro Linguistics Programming) facilitator and everythingDiSC practitioner, he works to support community members, board directors, and senior managers grow and hone their leadership skills. 

Barry is a lifelong Gippslandian – who is lucky enough to have spent some of his early years in other parts of Victoria before coming home in his early twenties! His family all grew up in West Gippsland and love the chance to return home when they can.