Today on the Take on Board podcast, I’m speaking with Michelle Redfern about building a board portfolio - aligned with interests, purpose and skills. Michelle is Chair of Speckle Financial Health and also a member of Wayfinder Steering Committee. She is also the former Deputy Chair of Good Shepherd Microfinance and a former board member of Williamstown Football Club, The Gippsland League and Swinburne University Business without Borders. She began her board career as Secretary for Highvale Netba...
Feb 01, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 133
Today on the Take on Board podcast, I’m speaking with Beverley Behan about becoming a board room star. Beverly Behan is one of the foremost global experts on board effectiveness, having worked with nearly 200 boards in the S&P1500 and other companies around the world over the past 25 years. She is the author of governance classic, Great Companies Deserve Great Boards and the recently released Becoming a Boardroom Star which is the #1 new release on Amazon in corporate governance worldwide up...
Jan 25, 2022•37 min•Season 1Ep. 132
Today on the Take on Board podcast, I’m speaking with Jac Phillips about her journey to the boardroom. Jac is currently on the board of Food Revolution Group (FOD) and was previously on the boards of Melbourne Communities Foundation, Fitted for Work, Skin & Cancer Foundation, Deakin University Marketing Advisory Board and Good Cycles. Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Jac Phillips Executive Coaching & Advisory, Jac recently stepped away from a 25 year corporate career across Australi...
Jan 18, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 131
Hello Take on Board community! How was your holiday period? Busy, restful, or a healthy dose of the two?I’ve revamped my RSVP and have a new goal. I need your help to hold me accountable. Are you in? Today I share some questions to help you level-up your icebreakers in 2022. And after years of asking you for your personal details, I answers my own questions. Plus, a giveaway just for helping build the Take on Board community (you’ll have to listen for the details). There’s information about Take...
Jan 11, 2022•28 min•Season 1Ep. 130
Welcome to the final episode of Take on Board for 2021. And what a year it’s been. In this episode, Helga is going to take you through her ‘RSVP’ process – an invitation to reflect on the year and set intentions for 2022. And you know what - this year has been tough. We do this in the final session of Board Accelerator – my program for women board members. So at the end of this episode, you’ll hear some of the reflections from the group. So, what’s the RSVP formula? Listen now to find out. And w...
Dec 21, 2021•22 min•Season 1Ep. 129
Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga is speaking with Jane Davel about being Chairing the board and board dynamics Jane is an independent non-executive director and currently serves as: Chair of St. Andrew’s Village Trust (Inc), member of the Electrical Workers Registration Board and the Cadastral Surveyors Licensing Board of New Zealand, and independent board member of Rowing New Zealand. She has held senior executive roles across a number of service industries, including banking and finan...
Dec 14, 2021•26 min•Season 1Ep. 124
Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga is speaking with Dr Niki Vincent about the new Victorian requirements for some organisations to have a gender action plan. Dr Niki Vincent commenced in the role of Victoria’s first Public Sector Gender Equality Commissioner in October 2020. She’s currently on the Board of InTouch and has an extensive list of previous Directorships. Niki has a wealth of experience in gender equality and organisational leadership. This includes most recently serving as the...
Dec 07, 2021•30 min•Season 1Ep. 128
Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga is speaking with Helen Freris about accessibility action plans.Helen is a community sector professional with key strengths in capacity building, training, delivery, program design, and coordination. She's currently the Health Services Manager at women with disabilities Victoria. Helen is also a fellow of the Williamson Community Leadership Program. Helen shares her expertise about how boards can approach their accessibility action plans and the benefits ...
Nov 30, 2021•27 min•Season 1Ep. 127
Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga is speaking with Amanda Robinson about being a co-CEO. You’ll remember that Helga shared her top tips along with her personal experiences about co-chairing a board. Well that episode, prompted the fabulous Dominique Hes to introduce me to Amanda … and here we are. Amanda is a co-CEO at Marshall Day Acoustics, and looks after the Australian operations, including China and Hong Kong. She is a qualified mechanical engineer who has worked in the acoustics fi...
Nov 23, 2021•25 min•Season 1Ep. 123
Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga is speaking with Carolyn Grant about psychological safety in the boardroom and it relates to decision-making. Carolyn is an Advisory Board member to Civic Ledger, Samford Support Network and Cerge Pty Ltd. She is an advisor, author and creator of tools and frameworks founded in neuroscience, to provide evidence based insights, to improve the quality of our decisions and the implementation of them in organisations. Carolyn is the author of the "People + S...
Nov 16, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 126
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
