Alan Manly

Alan Philip James Manly (born in 1950) is an Australian entrepreneur, company director and published author.

After dropping out of year nine at Bacchus Marsh High School in the north-west of Victoria, Australia, Alan worked as a postman before securing an apprenticeship as a television repairman. For eight years, Alan worked at Digital Equipment Corporation first as a computer engineer, then in sales and marketing.

Alan commenced his entrepreneurial career as a founding Director of a software company that developed and sold computerised freight tracking and integrated management systems used by major independent freight companies.

Alan then moved into the education industry, delivering papers on trading educational services in China and India. He is a former Director of the Australian Council of Private Education and Training, the industry association that then represented private colleges in Australia. He represented the industry before the Australian Senate supporting the introduction of government supervised trust accounts for student funds. In 2013 he joined the board of the Council of Private Higher Education, a national industry body representing non-government higher education providers.

His is currently the Managing Director of Group Colleges Australia (GCA), a company that has raised public and private funding to develop distance education using the Internet. GCA was amongst the first private colleges in Australia to implement distance learning via the Internet to overseas students. When GCA moved their campus to the former iconic TNT Towers in Lawson Square, Redfern in 2008, Alan stated his support for revitalising Redfern into "a modern cosmopolitan suburb." The renamed GCA towers dominate the local area.

Alan received a Tourism Training Australia award in 2009 for "outstanding support and leadership in tourism and hospitality in Australia." In 2010, Alan was interviewed in BRW Magazine on Australia's education sector.

He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and a Justice of the Peace.

• 'One One Five' (2011), co-authored with Julian R Day and Graeme Brosnan.
• 'When There Are Too Many Lawyers' (2013 second edition, published 1 November 2013), by Alan Manly

• Alan Manly; Julian Day and Graeme Brosnan (2011). One One Five. Dennis Jones & Associates: AKA Publishing. p. 288. ISBN 978-0-9804531-6-4. 
• Manly, Alan (2013). When there are too many Lawyers. Australia: AKA Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9872039-8-4. 

• A case of deception by numbers, by Andrew Clarke – The Weekend Financial Review (4–5 February 2012)
• Spear carriers in a production of Aida, by David Ash – Law Society Journal (November 2011)
• It's A Crazy, Crazy Story, by Jacq Ellem – Hit the Road Jacq (18 October 2011)
• How $115 led to 200 court appearances, by Jonar Nader – Observations from the Front Line (August 2011)
• When There Are Too Many Lawyers...There Is No Justice, The Senior (March 2014)
• Author's Legal Minefield, Hills Shire Times (April 2014)

• Clark, Andrew. "A case of deception by numbers". Financial Reviewl. Retrieved 23 September 2015. 
• Ash, David. "Spear carriers in a production in Aida". Law Society Journal. 
• "It's A Crazy, Crazy Story". Hit the Road Jacq. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 18 October 2011. 
• Nader, Jonar. "How $115 led to 200 court appearances". Jonar Nader Observations from the Front Line. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved August 2011. 
• "When There Are Too Many Lawyers...There Is No Justice". The Senior. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved March 2014. 
• "Author's Legal Minefield". Hills Shire Times. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved April 2014.