News in 2006

WOB Survey Results 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. Click here to read the survey results

 

WOB Director's Dinner
Book your place early for the WOB Director's Dinner being held at The American Club, 2 November 2006. Join former 702 Breakfast Host, Sally Loan, directors Carolyn Hewson, Yasmin Allen, Ian Blackburne and others at this premier event. Click here to register...

 

Women step up to Board Positions
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. Read more.....

 

UBS Lunch with Helen Lynch
Well known director, Helen Lynch, was the guest speaker at a recent 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.Read more about the event... 

 

Lunch with Margaret Jackson OA
Qantas Director and board luminary, Margaret Jackson OA, was the special guest at a WOB lunch hosted by Clayton Utz in Melbourne in July. Also a director of Billabong International and the ANZ Banking Group, Margaret's strategies and advice were well received by the group of senior directors and rural and urban WOBers who snapped up the free seats to attend. Hear what Ms Jackson had to say...

 

WOB - an idea that could change the world...
So said Ken Allen, former Consul General in New York, speaking at the WOB function at UBS in Sydney in July. 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. Read more about the event...

 

Succession Planning in Toyland
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. Read Melanie's paper to the conference...