The changing landscape of Sports Boards
Women on Boards - 20th Anniversary Series - Inspire | Influence | Impact
Release Date: 01/08/2021
Claire Braund OAM: 20 years of advocacy, opportunity and impact
Women on Boards - 20th Anniversary Series - Inspire | Influence | Impact
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E22 | Susan Rix AM: Saying Yes, Serving with Purpose and Staying Curious
Women on Boards - 20th Anniversary Series - Inspire | Influence | Impact
In this episode of the 20 Years of Women on Boards podcast, speaks with , an accomplished business leader, chartered accountant and corporate adviser whose career has run alongside more than four decades of board service. From her first board role as treasurer of Noah’s Ark Toy Library to major Queensland Government, infrastructure, education, community and private sector boards, Susan’s board career has been built less around a carefully mapped plan and more around being willing to say yes, contribute her skills and keep learning. Susan reflects on growing up in Lismore, spending a...
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E21 | Dylys Bertelsen OAM GAICD: What Boards Are Really Looking For
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E20 | Nadia Moffatt OAM: Resilience, Representation and Finding Your Place at the Board Table
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In this episode of the 20 Years of Women on Boards podcast, Claire Braund OAM speaks with Nadia Moffatt OAM, a South Australian non-executive director, governance specialist and long-standing consumer advocate whose board career has been shaped by resilience, independence and a determination to ensure different perspectives are heard. Nadia’s story begins with her Italian migrant family and an early introduction to business, helping with her father’s accounts and compliance from a young age. At just 12, her life changed dramatically when she suffered a major brain haemorrhage. After being...
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E19 | Elizabeth Crouch AM FAICD: Opportunity, Resilience and Service
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With an extraordinary portfolio spanning health, education, water, banking and sport, Elizabeth Crouch AM FAICD has built a board career defined by leadership, continuous learning and a deep commitment to public service. In this episode of the 20 Years of Women on Boards podcast, Elizabeth joins Claire Braund to reflect on the experiences that have shaped her journey from a 16-year career in the federal public service to becoming one of Australia’s most experienced Chairs. Today, Elizabeth chairs six organisations, including Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network, the Customer Owned Banking...
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Ep18 | Margie Haseltine: Resilience, Determination and a Portfolio Board Career
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Former CEO and experienced director has built an extensive portfolio career across listed and private companies, including Metcash, Inghams Group, Kennards Hire, Real Pet Food Company and Active Tree Services. In this episode of the 20 Years of Women on Boards podcast, Margie joins to reflect on the journey from growing up on a dairy farm in New Zealand to becoming CEO of MasterFoods Australia and, ultimately, building a successful board career. Margie stepped away from executive life in 2007 after 20 years with Mars. With three young children and years of extensive travel behind her, she...
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E17 | Kerry Skellern OAM: Engineering a Board Career and Making a Difference
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Chemical engineer and experienced director Kerry Skellern OAM has built a board career spanning infrastructure, financial services, housing and community organisations. In this episode of the 20 Years of Women on Boards podcast, Kerry joins Claire Braund to discuss how her technical background has shaped her approach to governance and why boards benefit from a broader mix of professional perspectives. Kerry’s executive career included roles with ICI, James Hardie, CSR and GE, often in heavily male-dominated environments. It taught her the importance of speaking up and being prepared to make...
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E16 | Joanna Brand: From Brazil to Boards to Bitcoin
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Senior executive, lawyer, company secretary and experienced director has built a career across corporate governance, capital markets, infrastructure, energy, aviation and the arts. In this episode of the 20 Years of Women on Boards podcast, Joanna joins Women on Boards CEO and Co-founder to reflect on the experiences that shaped her career, the value of curiosity and adaptability, and the governance challenges boards cannot afford to underestimate. Born in Brazil, Joanna spent her early childhood moving between Trinidad, the United States, the Netherlands and Australia before returning to...
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E15 | Helga Svendsen OAM — Stronger Together
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In this episode of 20 Years of Women on Boards: Inspire | Influence | Impact, host Claire Braund sits down with Helga Svendsen OAM, facilitator, leadership and executive coach, non-executive director and podcaster, for a conversation that traces a career built on empowering people. Helga takes us from her formative years in a close-knit Melbourne community, through leadership roles in government and as CEO of the Hotham Mission Asylum Seeker Project, to building an extensive board portfolio across health, government and the not-for-profit sector. She shares how the Williamson Community...
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E14 | Robin Buckham’s Unexpected Path to the Boardroom
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What do steelmaking, universities, ports, family businesses, cemeteries and rowing have in common? For experienced chair and non-executive director , they've all played a role in shaping a remarkable governance career built on curiosity, transformation and making a meaningful contribution. In the latest episode of the 20 Years of Women on Boards podcast, Robin reflects on a career that has never followed a conventional path. From an Arts degree and teaching, she unexpectedly found herself leading a major steel manufacturing business before moving into senior executive...
info_outlineIn this podcast, Margot Foster AM OLY talks to Claire Braund about the very real challenges that face sports boards today from corporate governance, to best practice, to competing state and national interests, to the evolving responsibilities of directors.
Margot is the Director of The Lyceum Club, NST Member Selection Advisory Committee member of National Sports Tribunal Australia, Governance and Integrity Consultant at SIGPA and inaugural Chair of the World Athletes Election Oversight Panel (formerly IAAF), among her many roles.
A former Olympian and a lawyer, Margot has a finely honed understanding of team dynamics, high performance, attention to detail and excellence.
She won Gold in rowing at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland, and holds the title till this day. Her rowing profession came to a brutal end in 1988 when a panel of male selectors unilaterally decided they wouldn’t send any female contesters to the Seoul Olympics.
While the doors closed on her professional sporting career, Margot has remained at the strategic heart of countless sports boards since she was 18 and hasn’t looked back.
In 1989, Margot was appointed to the Melbourne Olympic Bid Committee for 1996 Games, which exposed her to power brokers lobbying to host the Olympics. It was at the time when no one talked about governance and Margot had to find her way autonomously. It taught her invaluable lessons and equipped her with the grit and determination needed to navigate the terrain of sport boards.
The challenges have been vast and varied, Margot admits, and governance remains at the peak of the list. Sports boards are driven by peoples’ passion and love for the game, but this is deeply rivaled by shifting government requirements, increasing risks, professionalization across the sector and changing television rights. Margot explains this is why the type of director required for sports boards is evolving amidst the inevitable and persistent challenges of member-based bodies, the federated model, and the fraught field of integrity.
In this podcast, Margot cautions sporting organisations that if you ignore history, you peril.
Margot Foster - AM, OLY, Non-Executive Director
- Director of The Lyceum Club
- NST Member Selection Advisory Committee member of National Sports Tribunal Australia
- Governance and Integrity Consultant at SIGPA
Inaugural Chairman of World Athletes Election Oversight Panel (formerly IAAF) - Director and Vice President of Motorsport Australia
- Founder and Director of Talk the Talk Consulting
- Committee Member and Former President of Olympians Club of Victoria
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