Marion Macleod

Governance Consultant and Executive Mentor

marion.m@coremanagement.com.au

0419 135 099

 Marion is a long way from the Highlands of Scotland where she had her formative years and learnt, among other things, to spin yarn.

She studied Science before her Careers in: Television; Mobile Telecommunications; Logistics; Education and Governance.

Now she consults in board governance, strategy and risk.

Marion Macleod is a non-executive director with over 30 years’ board experience. She has expertise in governance, strategy setting, finance, business commercialisation, I.T., change transformation, and risk.

Her executive career and experience extends across a range of industries including; technology, telecommunications, media, education, government, agriculture, banking, the health sector and logistics. She has also been involved in complex transformational change.

Marion is principal at consultancy Core Management Solutions (CMS) and is lead consultant at ThoughtPost and Peakstone global consultancies. She has been involved in a number of start-up ventures. Her current directorships include Fenwick Pty Ltd., and establishing private company boards’ governance practice. Past board and chair positions include Homeward Bound, VFF, V/Line, Metlink, Mecwacare, the CAE and Centenary president of Melbourne Rotary.

Marion consults into a variety of organisations on Board Governance and Strategy and delivered the award-winning program, The Effective Director, to senior NAB executives. She was a council member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) for eight years and has been a facilitator of the AICD’s Company Directors’ course, Boardroom Mastery, their Foundations of Governance course, and a number of their other governance offerings for over eight years. Marion is a Williamson Fellow and graduate of Leadership Victoria.

She holds a number of business and financial qualifications including an MBA from Melbourne Business School, post-graduate qualifications in finance, media and project management, a foundation degree in science and micro-credentials in AI and Sustainability.

Marion’s sector experience includes private, public and not-for-profit.

In her personal life Marion is a keen skier, family focused, a dog lover, a walker, film-goer, current affairs enthusiast and book reader.