From journalist to director - sports boards, founding Women’s Agenda and more…
Women on Boards - 20th Anniversary Series - Inspire | Influence | Impact
Release Date: 12/04/2020
E4 | 20 Years of Women on Boards Series: Julie Garland McLellan on Governance and the Evolution of Women in the Boardroom
Women on Boards - 20th Anniversary Series - Inspire | Influence | Impact
As part of the 20 Years of Women on Boards – Inspire | Influence | Impact vodcast series, WOB CEO and co-founder Claire Braund OAM speaks with governance expert Julie Garland McLellan about board careers, governance and the changing role of women in the boardroom over the past two decades. A non-executive director, educator, author and producer and narrator of the Directors Dilemma newsletter, Julie reflects on a career spanning more than 27 years across boards, governance education and consulting. She shares lessons from board turnarounds; governance failures and...
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E3 | 20 Years of Women on Boards Series: Ruth Medd’s Inspiration, Influence and Impact
Women on Boards - 20th Anniversary Series - Inspire | Influence | Impact
In this very special episode of the 20 Years of Women on Boards podcast series, Claire Braund sits down with Ruth Medd, the original architect behind the Women on Boards idea and co-founder of WOB, a conversation that truly reflects Inspire, Influence and Impact in action. This episode offers a rare and insightful reflection on how one idea, sparked in the early 2000s, grew into a national movement that has shaped the board landscape in Australia. From the earliest conversations following the Sydney Olympics to the formal launch of Women on Boards in 2006, Ruth’s vision and...
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E2 | 20 Years of Women on Boards Series: Cheryl Hayman’s Purposeful, Reciprocal and Energetic Board Career
Women on Boards - 20th Anniversary Series - Inspire | Influence | Impact
Cheryl Hayman is one of WOB’s longest serving and most successful Women on Boards members. Coming into boards at a relatively young age from a global marketing background, she had several hurdles to overcome. Her focus on how to build her own board brand, awareness of the need to adapt and innovate and willingness to learn and finesse her governance style has seen her step onto a range of boards across the listed, private and NFP sectors. She is a WOBSX Alumni, a WOBSX Program Chair and WOB Mentor. With a two-decade board career spans the rise of women and non -traditional skillsets into the...
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E1 | 20 Years of Women on Boards Series: History of WOB with Claire Braund OAM
Women on Boards - 20th Anniversary Series - Inspire | Influence | Impact
Inspire | Influence | Impact Lasting change begins by making opportunity visible and accessible. For 20 years, Women on Boards has done exactly that, helping reshape leadership and governance across Australia through the vision of co-founders Claire Braund and Ruth Medd. In this episode, Claire reflects on the origins of the organisation, from an informal network inspired by the Sydney Olympics to a national organisation driving measurable change in boardroom representation. She shares the challenges of confronting entrenched systems, the strategies that improved transparency and access, and...
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The Tables Turn: Claire Braund Interviewed by Adelle Howse on the New CEO Toolkit
Women on Boards - 20th Anniversary Series - Inspire | Influence | Impact
On the eve of WOB’s 20th anniversary, Claire Braund steps into the guest seat to share the story of Women on Boards, her leadership journey and the lessons learned along the way. In the latest episode of The New CEO Toolkit podcast, hosted by WOB member Adelle Howse of Howse River, our very own Claire Braund OAM, CEO and WOB co-founder shares the story of co-founding WOB and driving lasting change in board diversity. From launching Women on Boards in 2006 with co-founder Ruth Medd, to championing the 40:40:20 vision for gender balance, Claire reflects on two decades of driving change in...
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Dr Jan Tennent OAM: Making the leap from lab bench to the boardroom
Women on Boards - 20th Anniversary Series - Inspire | Influence | Impact
Dr Jan Tennent: Making the leap from the lab bench to the boardroom In this Women of Honour podcast Claire Braund talks to Dr Jan Tennent OAM - an internationally recognised researcher with specialist knowledge of antimicrobial resistance mechanisms and the discovery and commercialisation of vaccines. Jan was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for her service to research science, and to business, and today Jan says she hopes to use the OAM “a platform for my future work to remove barriers to women and indeed to all great scientists”. But despite being six foot tall with a...
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Woman of Honour: Board recruitment specialist Bernadette Uzelac AM
Women on Boards - 20th Anniversary Series - Inspire | Influence | Impact
‘If the door is closed, climb through the window’. That’s the message from board recruitment specialist and director, Bernadette Uzelac, who has been made a member of the Order of Australia (AM), for significant service to the community of the Barwon Southwest region in Victoria. Growing up in Geelong, Bernadette was married with a baby and selling Mary Kay products by the time she was 18. Three years later she had completed a commerce degree and welcomed her second child. By the 1980s, driven by a hunger to put her own stamp on something, Bernadette started her own recruitment business...
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Julie Adams OAM: Dad’s legacy brightens future for cancer patients
Women on Boards - 20th Anniversary Series - Inspire | Influence | Impact
Warning: This podcast discusses suicide A curious child who grew up with an older brother, Julie Adams OAM started challenging gender stereotypes at an early age. “I felt empowered to speak up if I thought I was being treated differently because I was a girl,” said Julie. It was this curiosity, she says, that led to her success as an entrepreneur as the co-founder of Chemo@home - which offers cancer patients the convenience and flexibility of receiving treatment in the comfort of their own home - and in 2024 being awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to...
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Avril Henry AM - Levelling the playing field - Women of Honour Series
Women on Boards - 20th Anniversary Series - Inspire | Influence | Impact
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Architect Helen Lochhead AO - Building a career with purpose - Women on Honour series
Women on Boards - 20th Anniversary Series - Inspire | Influence | Impact
Make every day count. That’s the advice from architect and urbanist , who was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the 2024 Australia Day Honours for distinguished service to architecture and urban design, to building regulation reform, to tertiary education, and to professional organisations. A graduate of both the University of Sydney and Columbia University in New York, Helen is a woman who has certainly made every day count. A recipient of many prestigious travel scholarships and Fellowships including Fulbright, Bogliasco and the Harvard Lincoln/Loeb...
info_outlineA straight up-and-down journalist is how Marina Go describes herself prior to her foray into the boardroom. From her days as Editor for Dolly, Elle, Australian Good Taste, and Sunday Life, and then General Manager of Bauer/Hearst brand's: Harper's Bazaar, Elle, and Cosmopolitan, her path to the boardroom hasn’t been as bizarre as you may think.
Journalists ask questions, but what they’re particularly skilled at is listening. And that is the makings of an effective director, Marina explains.
Marina's first board role was at Netball Australia, which she obtained via WOB. Today she has a full-time portfolio career, comprising Non Executive Director (NED) Autosports Group (ASX:ASG); Energy Australia; 7-eleven; Pro-PAC (ASX:PPG); and The Walkley Foundation, and Chair at Ovarian Cancer Australia; and Suncorp Super Netball Commission.
She has spent the past 30 years creating and building commercially successful brands that connect deeply with consumer groups across digital and print channels. Her focus is on reputational risk and digital innovation, but it is her passion for gender equality and balance that is becoming her legacy.
In spite of the challenges presented by traditional notions of male leadership, stereotypes and gender barriers, she has succeeded as Netball Australia’s first independent NED and Chair of the West Tigers NRL, which saw her nominated as the Australian Financial Review Boss True Leader in 2016.
'In Conversation with Claire', Marina confides that her most rewarding career move was launching Women’s Agenda, an independent female owned and run online publication, and the Women’s Agenda Leadership Awards.
At the turn of the century when most publications only featured women if they were a celebrity or a victim, Women’s Agenda “created a stink” by showcasing talented women from every sector and known background in business and leadership. It caused a ripple effect across mainstream media and put women on the radar.
At the close of the hardest year for many, Marina shares the emotional toll COVID-19 has had on the mental wellbeing of staff across the organisations she boards.
Marina Go
Independent Chair, Non-Executive Director, Remuneration Committee Chair, Editor, General Manager
Current Boards (November 2020)
- NED, Autosports Group (ASX:ASG)
- NED, Energy Australia
- NED, 7-eleven
- NED, Pro-PAC (ASX:PPG)
- NED, The Walkley Foundation
- Chair, Ovarian Cancer Australia
- Chair, Suncorp Super Netball Commission