Take on Board

Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga speaks with Ingrid Svendsen about communicating in a crisis. Ingrid is the co-founder and chair of the East Timor Hearts Fund, and she's also the past president of the Darebin Parklands Association. Her first board was the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance Victorian Branch Councillor. Ingrid is a crisis communication professional who has specialised in...

Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga is speaking with Julie Green about getting on a board and building a board portfolio around your areas of influence and passion. This alignment of your skills to a board role is key. Helga explores how to highlight your own points of difference in her conversation with Julie. Julie is a board member of the RACV which is the Royal Automobile Club of Victori...

Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga is speaking with Samantha Kinsey about some of the new Australian laws relating to directors arising out of the Covid=19 pandemic. First, let me tell you about Samantha. Samantha is a restructuring and insolvency partner in the Melbourne Office of King and Wood Mallesons. Samantha acts for diverse stakeholders in relation to distressed situations including...

Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga speaks with Sheila Ronning about using your network and your personal brand to help you get on boards. Sheila broke the mould in 2002, launching Women in the Boardroom as the first to form such an organisation with customised executive training programs and networking opportunities. She has created a proven program and process to get women their first seco...

Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga speaks with Jocelyn Furlan. Initially we had planned to speak about being an effective board member, governance challenges and the establishment of the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal Advisory Council and where that led - and we’ll get to that in a future episode, I promise. But we changed the focus of this conversation, because Jocelyn worked with one...

Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga recaps the Australian Institute of Company Directors conference. So here is what Helga heard during the two-day conference peppered with some of her thoughts on topics that were raised and things for you to think about. You might also want to have a look at Helga’s Twitter feed ( https://twitter.com/helgasvendsen?lang=en ) from this period, she live tweete...

Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga speaks with Sally Davis about the relationship between the CEO and the board. Sally's a consultant and she specialises in strategic planning, leadership and organisational development. She works with clients in a range of sectors including the arts, universities and the not for profit sector. She’s got a fascinating background, Sally started out as a ‘conn...

Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga speaks with Jodie Willmer about board portals. Some boards have adopted this tool to make sharing information easier and more secure. Depending on which platform you use, you could be saying farewell to paper for good. Imagine going into your next board meeting armed with just a tablet, confident that everything you need will be there - and there’s nothing...

Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga sits down with Jennifer George to cover how you can make a valuable contribution in discussions around technology, even if you're not a technology whiz, in the boardroom. Jennifer is Head of Growth at Bay City Labs at Australian Computer Society (ACS). Jennifer has a background in finance. She's made several companies (a concept she explains) and worked in...

Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga’s speaking with Corrinne Armour about fearless leadership in the boardroom and from the other side of the board table and executive perspectives. Corrinne is the former Deputy Chair of Wintringham and a founding chair for the Torch Project where she helped the organisation move from a project auspiced by the not for profit to an independent structure. She'...

Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga speaks with Zoe Wainer about being an effective board member, governance challenges and in particular about value based health care. Zoe is the chair of the board of Dental Health Services Victoria and also a board member of the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation. She was formerly on the boards of the AMA Victoria and Tobacco Free portfolios. She is...

Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga speaks with Jennifer Duncan about women leadership and how imposter syndrome sometimes holds us back from seeking roles such as directorships. Jennifer is Deputy Chair of Justice Reinvestment, South Australia, Deputy Chair of the Youth Affairs Council of South Australia and a member of the Living Stories advisory board. She was formerly on the South Austra...

Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga speaks with Ruth McGowan about getting elected to government, after all, local, state or federal governments are just another form of Board. They’ll be talking about the governance challenges in elected positions, how to get elected, office politics and more. This interview was recorded in late 2019. Since then, Australia has been in the middle of a feroci...

Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga talks with Nicola Pero about bushfires, board obligations in considering climate risk, and the balance of operational versus strategic in times of crisis. Nicola is a Gippslander and a board member of Destination Gippsland and Food and Fibre Gippsland. She has a lot to share with us since Gippsland has been at the center of one of the devastating bushfires...

Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga talks with Henriette Rothschild about bushfires, climate change, emergencies and the impact that this has in the boardroom. Helga was in Adelaide during the Christmas period. During that time, the Adelaide Hills experienced devastating fires. Two people died and others were injured. More than 80 homes were lost, as well as about 500 outbuildings, hundreds...

Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga brings you 20 board tips to take into 2020. In doing so, I acknowledge my good friend Jackie Cooper who helped me bring this together – there’s no way I would have been able to pull out all the key themes and my favourite bits as it would be a bit like having to choose your favourite child. I love all of it! So Jackie was key in pulling this together. So l...

Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga reflects on 2019 and provides some tools for you to do the same. Reflection has popped up in many of Helga’s Take on Board conversations, so it’s only fitting that in this final episode before a two week pause that Helga outlines an exercise for you to incorporate this into your life. But don’t just stop at reflection, look ahead to what you want to accomp...

Today on the Take on Board podcast, Dr Dominique Hes is back for another on air coaching session. Helga has spoken with Dominique on two separate occasions. Once they covered preparing an application for a board role. Next, they tackled the interview process and how to present yourself with confidence. Well, Dominique has returned to give us an update - how did the interview go and did she land a...

Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga talks with Alex Newton. Helga and Alex talk discuss human rights and business and what directors need to know and what to ask. Alex is a lawyer and specialist in business and human rights. She consults with corporations, governments, and non-governmental organizations on a wide range of matters relating to responsible business, human rights, anti discrimin...

Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga talks with Rachel Alembakis. Rachel is a journalist with over 20 years of experience. One of her areas of expertise is looking at how corporate governance links with impact investment. And how the flow of environmental, social and governance analysis (ESG) analysis can help to mitigate risk and can help provide long term investment return. During her conve...

Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga talks with Clare McCartin Clare is the Group General Manager of Executive and Boards at Davidson Recruitment. Clare has the insights from the other side of the interview table. She takes Helga through the board recruitment process. One thing Clare is a fan of, using your network. You never know who you know, who knows someone who can make an introduction....

Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga interviews Linda White. Linda describes herself as having done heaps, she rarely says no, and she firmly believes you are never to old learn new things. She's on the National Executive for the Australian Labor Party, the executive of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the National Executive of the Australian Services Union. And she's also on the board...

Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga chats with Kellie O’Callaghan about governance challenges and one of her passions, putting consumers at the heart of governance and how boards can respectfully engage with community stakeholders. We’re looking at you social media. The conversation between Kellie and Helga will also touch on the importance working through the uncomfortable topics around the...

Today on the Take on Board podcast Helga chats with Sheena Watt about how to get on a board and about cultural isolation in the boardroom. Sheena, a proud Yorta Yorta woman, is a board member of Vic Health, Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, Progressive Public Health Australia, the Victorian Council of Social Services, otherwise known as VCOSS, and Women's Health Victoria. She's also the execu...

Today on the Take on Board podcast, Helga interviews Fiona Williams. Fiona is a board member of the Great Ocean Road Health board and was previously the Chair of Bethany Board of Management. She's the child safe volunteering hub project lead at Australian Volunteers International and has worked in the international development sector as a child protection safeguarding specialist for over 15 years....