News Archive

2006

  • WOB Director's Dinner  (Nov 2006)
    The WOB Director's Dinner was held at The American Club, 2 November 2006. More than 150 women joined former 702 Breakfast Host, Sally Loan, directors Carolyn Hewson, Yasmin Allen, Ian Blackburne and others at this premier event.
  • Women step up to Board Positions (Oct 2006)
    WOB 2006 survey shows 10% increase in the number of network members who are on paid and unpaid boards. The survey was independently conducted by GENROE.
  • WOB Survey Results (September 2006
    500 of the women registered with this website completed a survey in September 2006, evaluating the performance of Women on Boards and telling of their experience accessing board networks and directorships.
  • UBS Lunch with Helen Lynch (Aug 2006)
    Well known director, Helen Lynch, was the guest speaker at a 2006 lunch in Sydney. The event was hosted by UBS Investment Bank, our major sponsors in 2006. Brad Orgill, UBS CEO and Chairman Australasia, attended the lunch along with a small groups of WOBers, including Jenny Hill-Ling, Chair of Hills Industries in SA.
  • Lunch with Margaret Jackson OA (Jul 2006)
  • WOB - an idea that could change the world (Jul 2006)
    So said Ken Allen, former Consul General in New York, speaking at the WOB function at UBS in Sydney in July 2006. Ken outlined how being on a board was no longer the stable, easy life of earlier times. He was followed by Wendy McCarthy, who was not about to mince words with her description of where Australian is at in terms of achieving parity on its company boards. Wendy said seven per cent of company directors as women is unsustainable and companies need to 'refresh and change' their boards.
  • Succession Planning in Toyland (Jul 2006)
    In the modern version of Watership Down, 250 guests at the 18th Women, Management and Employment Relations conference were treated to a story of how ageing toybox chair, Bun Bun, replaced himself atop the fluffy cushions in Bethany's bedroom with the snappy young PJ. Passing over Wendy Wombat, Teddy Bear and Lucy Lion, the wily rabbit opted for 'someone who looked just like him,' Bethany told her mother, Melanie O'Connor, of The Academy Network. It seems the problems surrounding succession planning in Australia are alive and well in toyland

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