Warwick Fairfax
{{For|his father, the newspaper publisher|Warwick Oswald Fairfax}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Warwick Fairfax
| alma_mater = {{unbulleted list|Oxford University|Harvard University }}
| children = 3
| spouse = Gale
| citizenship = Australian
| known_for = Privatisation of John Fairfax Holdings Limited
| occupation = Business consultant
Executive coach
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1960|12}}
| nationality = Australian
| parents = {{unbulleted list|Sir Warwick Oswald Fairfax|Lady (Mary) Fairfax {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|AC|OBE}}}}
| relations = {{unbulleted list|James Fairfax {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|AC}} {{small|(half-brother)}}|James Oswald Fairfax {{small|(grandfather)
James Reading Fairfax}}|great grandfather John Fairfax {{small|(great great grandfather)}}}}
| website = {{URL|fairfaxadvisers.com}}
}}
Warwick Fairfax (born December 1960) is an Australian businessman and consultant based in the United States.{{Cite web|title = Fairfax Consulting – Warwick Bio|url = http://www.fairfaxadvisers.com/warwick_bio.html|website = www.fairfaxadvisers.com|accessdate=21 May 2015}} He was well known in the 1990s as the media heir and business tycoon who privatised the publicly listed media company, John Fairfax Holdings Limited in 1987; only for the privatised company to fail three years later in spectacular fashion.{{Cite news |title=Family affair again after days of young Warwick |url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/family-affair-again-after-days-of-young-warwick/2006/12/06/1165081020198.html |work=The Age |date=7 December 2006 |accessdate=21 May 2015 |author=Ricketson, Matthew }}{{Cite news |title=Rising after the fall |url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/rising-after-the-fall/2008/11/01/1224956397578.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1 |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |accessdate=21 May 2015 |date=2 November 2008 |author=Smyth, Terry}} He is the founder of Beyond the Crucible and host of the podcast of the same name.
Biography
Fairfax is the son of Sir Warwick Oswald Fairfax and his third wife, Mary. Fairfax was educated at both Balliol College at Oxford and Harvard Business School, in the United States.{{self-published inline|date=April 2016}}
In 1987, following the death of his father, the 26-year-old "young Warwick" successfully took over the then publicly listed John Fairfax Holdings Limited but on 10 December 1990 the company collapsed and a receiver was appointed. The controversial method of financing and purchasing holdings of the established company from family members and the consequential problems arising in the media group in later years are still cited today in Australian media history.{{cite news|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070921140443/http://www.education.theage.com.au/history.asp |archive-date=21 September 2007 |url=http://www.education.theage.com.au/history.asp |title=The story of The Age newspaper |date=22 September 2007 |work=The Age |accessdate=11 April 2016 |url-status=unfit }}
In 1991, he migrated to the United States and settled in Annapolis, Maryland, where he founded a business consultancy and executive coach business. In 2016, he founded Crucible Leadership, citing the lessons he learned from the failed takeover of the family media dynasty to offer "compelling insights for anyone who would like to wake up feeling inspired about their work, but doesn't."{{cn|date=March 2025}} Crucible Leadership, a book in part describing the failed takeover and in part offering advice to help readers overcome their own setbacks was published in 2021.{{Cite book|isbn=978-1631954764|title=Crucible Leadership: Embrace Your Trials to Lead a Life of Significance|last1=Fairfax|first1=Warwick|date=19 October 2021}}
He is married with three children and serves as an Elder at Bay Area Community Church in Annapolis.
References
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Further reading
- {{Cite book |publisher=Birch Lane Press |isbn=9781559722155 |author=Coleridge, Nicholas |title=Paper Tigers: The Latest, Greatest Newspaper Tycoons |location=Secaucus, NJ |date=1994 }}
- {{Cite book |title=Paper Tigers |author=Coleridge, Nicholas |publisher=Random House |year=2012 |isbn=9781448149902 }}
External links
- [http://www.fairfaxadvisers.com/ Fairfax advisers]
- [http://www.fxj.com.au/ Fairfax media corporate site]
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Category:Harvard Business School alumni