Governance and Leadership Event for Leaders of Not-for-profit Organisations

The Better Boards Conference 2022 will provide a day for leaders of NFP organisations to reflect on the vital governance and leadership lessons you have learned, and provide a forum to raise and discuss pressing issues that may have received less attention during or emerged from the extreme conditions of the pandemic response. What governance and leadership lessons can we take from this collective experience? What pressing issues have been missed, pushed aside or have emerged from the pandemic response? How can we rebuild/strengthen our organisations?

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Start Time	Speaker	Presentation	Topic
9:00am	Michael Goldsworthy Conference Chair	Welcome	Welcome
	SEGMENT 1:	Innovation, Strategy and Leadership
9:15am	Dr Gary Johns Commissioner, Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission	ACNC Innovations to Support Board Governance	Strategic collaboration
9:30am	George Liacos Founder and Chair, Spark Strategy	For Purpose Strategic Innovation : A Board Perspective	Strategic Innovation
9:45am	Julie Garland McLellan CEO, The Director's Dilemma	How Can a Board Drive Strategy?	Boards & Strategy Leadership
10:00am	Dr Ruth Knight Lecturer and Researcher, QUT's Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies	Perhaps We Need to Rethink ‘Leadership”? Session sponsored by QUT's ACPNS	Systems Leadership
10:15am	Panel Discussion	Innovation, Strategy and Leadership Gary, George, Julie and Ruth answer your questions and discuss points of interest raised by their presentations.	Q&A and Discussion
10:45am		BREAK
	SEGMENT 2:	Digital Technology and Risk
11:15am	Rinske Geerlings Managing Director, Business As Usual	Cyber Security Demystified... What it is, and what it means for a Board	Cyber Security for Boards
11:30am	Vera Visevic Partner, Mills Oakley	The Rise of Technology During the Pandemic – a double edged sword.	Legal Implications and Technology
11:45am	Craig Badings Partner, SenateSHJ	Culture, Reputation and Crisis, Tips on how to prepare	Crisis Management
12:00pm	Wenda Gumulya Board Chair, Hoshizora Foundation	Building Resilience for NFPs: Transforming Risks to Strategic Advantages	Strategic Risk Management
12:15pm	Panel Discussion	Cyber, Technology and Risk Rinske, Vera, Craig and Wenda answer your questions and discuss points of interest raised by their presentations.	Q&A and Discussion
	SEGMENT 3:	Review, Improve your Governance
12:45pm	Kathy Nguyen Senior Lawyer, Governology	Your Constitution – Help or Hindrance?	Constitutions
1:00pm	Jonathan Teh Principal, Russell Kennedy	Spring Cleaning (Kondo-ing) Your Organisation's Governance Presented with Jaqueline Wilson, Associate.	Tidy Governance
1:20pm	Jane Boag Head of Enterprise Risk Advisory, VMIA	Quality, Audit & Risk – Different tasks, different thinking	Roles and Decision-making
1:35pm	Panel Discussion	Reviewing and Improving your Governance Kathy, Jonathan, Jaqueline and Jane answer your questions and discuss points of interest raised by their presentations.	Q&A and Discussion
2:05pm		BREAK
	SEGMENT 4:	Governing Without Dysfunction
2:35pm	Derek Mortimer Principal, DF Mortimer & Associates	The End of Democracy as We Know It?	Members and Voting
2:50pm	Elizabeth Lathlean Senior Lawyer, Gilbert + Tobin	I.D. Check on Conflicts (and how to manage them)	Conflicts of Interest
3:05pm	Randall Pearce ACC Managing Director, THINK: Insight & Advice	Coaching for Better Board Performance Presented with Jane Porter MCC, Master Certified Coach	Board Dynamics
3:25pm	Panel Discussion	Governing Without Dysfunction Derek, Elizabeth, Randall and Jane answer your questions and discuss points of interest raised by their presentations.	Q&A and Discussion
3:55pm		Final remarks
4:00pm		End of Program

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