Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga is speaking with Bronwyn Wellings about tends in reporting and The Australasian Reporting Awards - yes, that’s a real thing. Who knew? Bronwyn is currently Chair of the St. Andrew’s Foundation, Deputy Chair of the Australasian Reporting Awards, Chair of the Finance, Audit, Risk and Remuneration Committee of the ETU (Victorian Branch) and a member of Victoria University’s Compliance, Audit and Risk Committee. She was previously on the boards of Connection...
Nov 09, 2021•26 min•Season 1Ep. 125
Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga is speaking with Shana Shreier-Joffe about a hot topic in many boardrooms at the moment - mandatory vaccination in the workplace. Shana has over 20 years’ experience as an employment and industrial lawyer. She began her career as a barrister in South Africa and has a Masters in Law from Cambridge University. Shana’s clients include numerous publicly listed and international clients. She is the trusted advisor for all employment related matters for her co...
Nov 02, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 122
Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga is speaking with Deb Coram about some of the recent developments in legislation in relation to respect at work. Deborah Coram is the CEO of two award winning compliance and governance organisations, Safetrac and Boardtrac which support organisations and their boards to implement programs that help build a culture of integrity. A lawyer by trade, Deb’s international career has spanned New York and the UK and she is a passionate advocate for businesses to ...
Oct 26, 2021•30 min•Season 1Ep. 121
Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga has brought Cris Parker back for another interview. Last week they discussed Cris’ work with the Ethics Centre and the service - Ethi-call. But there was still so much more to discuss. Cris graciously agreed to share more time to the Take on Board Community. She and Helga walk through the Banking and Finance Oath - from its origins to who has already signed on and how your board can use it. And what is the Ethics Alliance and how can you use their servic...
Oct 19, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 120
Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga is speaking with Cris Parker about the free service that The Ethics Centre runs call Ethi-call. I saw something about it recently on social media and reached out as I think this is a fabulous service for Board members and I wanted to know more – so here we are. Cris has worked at The Ethics Centre for 10 years and head up 2 initiatives - The Ethics Alliance and the Banking and Finance Oath. She is also an ethics counsellor for the free ethics counseling ...
Oct 12, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 119
Last week on Take on Board you heard from Megan May about being a mentee. So today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga is speaking with Sandie de Wolf AM about being a mentor in the same program. We’ll also touch on the Board relationship with the CEO and reporting to boards. Sandie chairs the Eastern Domestic Violence Service and the Western Integrated Family Violence Committee and she’s also on the board of Kilfinan board and is deputy chair of the Victorian Children’s Council She’s previously...
Oct 05, 2021•28 min•Season 1Ep. 118
Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga is speaking with Megan May about her Mentoring experiences and her journey as a young female Director. Megan is a board member of Ballarat Community Health. She joined the BCH Board as a green 27 year old health professional and small business wonder. Six years later she now chairs the Quality of Care Committee and has just completed the AICD Directors Course. During COVID times she’s listened, challenged ideas, breastfed a baby at Board meetings and lea...
Sep 28, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 116
Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga is speaking with Leonore Ryan about innovation. Leonore is a Non Executive Director of Western BACE Pty Ltd and is also on the boards of two family companies. She is the principal at idea2 opportunity which “exists to make the world a better place by supporting researchers and STEMM founders to start and build businesses based on their innovations.” With a background in science and technology, and experience in innovation and entrepreneurship plus compan...
Sep 21, 2021•25 min•Season 1Ep. 117
Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga is speaking with Samantha McGolrick about the power of organisations to improve the health, happiness and resilience of our society. Sam’s niche is in educating board members on effective governance & leadership of wellbeing, health and safety matters as a means through which the board can cultivate a culture where people feel they matter and create spaces where people leave work in a better condition than when they arrived. And given we spend over ⅓...
Sep 14, 2021•28 min•Season 1Ep. 115
Today on Take on Board, Brynn O’Brien shares her years of ESG insights with the Take on Board Community with a focus on climate change - the time to act was yesterday. There were so many excellent questions from the TOB Community that Brynn stuck around after the session to field more questions. This presentation was part of August’s Take on Board Breakfast event. Brynn has tips on how to approach ESG, how to get buy in from the board and encourage them to start pulling together policies around ...
Sep 07, 2021•25 min•Season 1Ep. 114
Today on Take on Board, Brynn O’Brien shares her years of ESG insights with the Take on Board Community with a focus on climate change - the time to act was yesterday and this will help you help your boards get started if you haven’t. This presentation was part of August’s Take on Board Breakfast event. Brynn has tips on how to approach ESG, how to get buy in from the board and encourage them to start pulling together policies around ESG and climate change. You can access the presentation here ....
Aug 31, 2021•43 min•Season 1Ep. 113
Today on the Take on Board podcast, I’m speaking with Maali Khader about culture in the boardroom. Maali is a highly experienced, effective and trusted lawyer. She is also a leading regional expert in corporate governance and sustainability and the CEO of the Middle East Institute of Directors. In just 18 years, Maali’s career – which began as a legal advisor for a legal firm - has rapidly evolved to her position today as a luminary in the corporate governance, sustainability, training and advic...
Aug 24, 2021•26 min•Season 1Ep. 112
Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga is speaking with Cassandra Kelly about love and kindness in the boardroom. Businesses and leaders who dare to challenge the status quo and solve the most complex problems leverage Cassandra to accelerate their impact and to find the extra confidence required to make difficult and important decisions. Cassandra is the Chair of Treasury Corporation of Victoria, a Director of Pink Hope, Pottinger and EU Global Tech Panel. She has a long list of previous boa...
Aug 17, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 111
Today, Helga is talking co-chairing of boards and committees and you’re just hearing from her She's been a fan of job-share for years … as long as it’s done well. And Helga thinks some of the principles of good job share could apply to board room roles such as Chairing the board or committees. So, today, get ready, she's going to talk about some principles for co-chairing and then talk you through a live example – when she was co-chair of an organisation - it wasn't perfect, but they did it! So ...
Aug 10, 2021•17 min•Season 1Ep. 110
Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga is speaking with Caitlin Siostrom about the risk oversight on not for profit and small organization boards and how to create meaningful risk appetite statements and policies that are fit for purpose, no matter your resources. Caitlin is on the board of Times Change Women's Employment Service and chair of the risk committee. Time Change is a women's run not-for-profit, providing employment opportunities for women in need. She is also a senior regulatory l...
Aug 03, 2021•35 min•Season 1Ep. 109
Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga is speaking with Sandra Sucher about trust between boards and the people they govern. Sandra is an internationally recognized trust researcher and professor of management practice at Harvard Business School. She studies how organizations build trust and the vital role leaders play in the process. Before joining Harvard, she was a business executive for 20 years, served on corporate and nonprofit boards, and has been Chair of the Better Business Bureau. A...
Jul 27, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 108
Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga is speaking with Jennifer Dalitz about the diversity and inclusion in both the board room and the organisation, and the link between the two. Plus, they also touch on the relationship between risk and opportunity Jen is a non-executive Director of Qudos Bank and Surfing NSW, an Alumni Advisory Board Member to the UNSW Business School, and a NSW Divisional Councillor with CPA Australia.She is the former Chair and board member of Peer Support Australia. Sh...
Jul 20, 2021•35 min•Season 1Ep. 107
Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga is speaking with Dr Monique Beedles about the boards role in asset management. Monique has been on a long list of Boards previously, Asset Management Council, Connexion Technology for Business, QUT Faculty of Creative Industries Faculty Academic Board and the Health Quality and Complaints Commission of Queensland Monique is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a graduate of their Company Directors Course and Chair’s Course. Moniq...
Jul 13, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 106
Today on the Take on Board podcast, I’m speaking with Maree McPherson about her journey into and out of the boardroom. Maree is the former Chair, Gippsland Regional Partnership and a former Member of Regional Development Advisory Committee Member and the Victorian Adult Community and Further Education (ACFE) . Maree is a leadership coach, facilitator, and author. She writes about regional leadership and the contribution of regions to nations and is interested in how women lead in regional and ru...
Jul 06, 2021•30 min•Season 1Ep. 105
Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga is speaking to Anneli Blundell about how to influence with impact. Voted as one of YMag’s Top Ten Women to Watch in 2019, Anneli’s passion for decoding people and performance dynamics make her a sought after speaker, mentor and leadership expert. She makes the complex job of understanding why people do what they do (and how to get the best out of them), both accessible and entertaining. Anneli works with leaders to increase their influence, engagement an...
Jun 29, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 104
Today on Take on Board, Morgana Ryan is back with more strategy insights. This presentation was part of May’s Take on Board Breakfast event. Morgana has tips on how to approach board strategy, what to do to get buy in from strategy skeptics and where to start no matter the size of your organization. Morgana stuck around to answer even more questions from the women who joined the event. This is a selection of those questions. This podcast has been edited for time. If you want to ensure you don’t ...
Jun 22, 2021•22 min•Season 1Ep. 103
Today on Take on Board, Morgana Ryan shares her years of strategy insights with the Take on Board Community. This presentation was part of May’s Take on Board Breakfast event. Morgana has tips on how to approach board strategy, what to do to get buy in from strategy skeptics and where to start no matter the size of your organization. Morgana then fields questions from women who joined the event. There were so many amazing questions, a second podcast with just questions and insightful responses f...
Jun 15, 2021•45 min•Season 1Ep. 102
Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga is speaking with Sally Parrish about transitioning from exec to board work, making mistakes and learning from them. Sally has been in and around boards for almost 20 years, having served on a number of not-for-profit and community boards. She is an Executive and Business coach, the founder of the Board Coaching Institute and the author of 'The Essential Field Guide for Company Directors’. She’s had a curiosity with boards ever since my first 'board coach...
Jun 08, 2021•28 min•Season 1Ep. 101
Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga will be speaking with Amber Roberts. It's reconciliation week in Australia this week so we are repodcasting Helga's conversation with Amber, an Aboriginal woman from far north Queensland. Amber is senior manager at PwC Indigenous Consulting, and formerly worked with the Australian Human Rights Commission, Reconciliation Australia and the Diversity Council of Australia. The Take on Board Facebook group asked me to explore two questions. Firstly, whether a...
Jun 01, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 100
Today on the Take on Board podcast, we’re doing something a little bit different. Helga is speaking to Jenni McNamara about managing the overwhelm of your digital mailbox. Jenni has worked in IT in multiple industries for over 30 years in multiple roles, in change, training and transformation projects. She has always been interested in productivity and efficiency and helping others find ways to work smarter rather than harder. We should also say that this podcast was on the recommendation of the...
May 25, 2021•28 min•Season 1Ep. 99
Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga is speaking to Margot Foster about being an effective board member and just check out this list of experience. Margot is on the boards of: Motorsport Australia, Sports Environment Alliance, Sports Integrity Australia Advisory Council and the Olympians Club of Victoria She’s previously been on the boards of Vicsport, Gymnastics Australia, PLC School Council, VicHealth, Australian Sports Commission, Sport New Zealand, Rowing Australia, Rowing Victoria, Mel...
May 18, 2021•28 min•Season 1Ep. 98
Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga is speaking to Repa Patel about Board leadership through disruption, using Appreciative Inquiry to engage the hearts and minds of their people and drive exponential growth. Repa is on the Board of, and the former Chair of, Multicultural Cente for Womens Health. She was formerly the Company Secretary to the State Library of Victoria Board. Repa is the author of “Elevate - a new path for leaders to navigate uncertainty”. She is a facilitator, executive coa...
May 11, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 97
Today on the Take on Board podcast I’m speaking to Denise North about the Women on Boards SX (WOBSX) program, and also about the current shift in society’s expectations of business. Denise is Chair of the Advisory Board for Catherine Henry Lawyers, Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee for the Australian Society of Orthodontists Inc and Chair of INSEAD Alumni Association Australia & New Zealand Limited and Streetwize Communications Limited She has previously been on the External Advisory Com...
May 04, 2021•26 min•Season 1Ep. 96
Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga is speaking to Elenie Poulos about her accidental journey to the boardroom. Elenie is on the boards of Uniting NSW/ACT and ANDI (Australian National Development Index). She was previously on the boards of ACOSS, Act for Peace and the Churches Refugee Taskforce. She has more than 20 years’ experience working in public policy, advocacy and government relations in the not-for-profit sector. She is an ordained minister in the Uniting Church in Australia and ...
Apr 27, 2021•25 min•Season 1Ep. 95
Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga’s speaking to Deanne Weir about listing AI-Media during a global pandemic and we’ll also touch on some tips for working with CEOs as Chair. Deanne has a wealth of experience. In fact, her first board was Museums Victoria when she was in her 20s and she’s been on a roll ever since. Here is where you can find her. Commercial: Chair of Ai-Media (ASX code AIM), an ASX listed global provider of speech to text services, Chair of Seer Data & Analytics (tech...
Apr 20, 2021•27 min•Season 1Ep. 94
