ACT
Non-Executive Director with people & culture expertise
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Dr Nadine White is an accomplished independent non-executive director with extensive experience across a range of sectors, including water and utilities, aged care, health, disability, Indigenous affairs, and financial services sectors. She currently serves as a Director with Care Connect Ltd; Scope Australia Ltd, Goodwin Aged Care Services, and Icon Water Limited. She is also the Director and Chair of Dietitians Australia. Nadine has held the position of Deputy Chair on several boards, including Canberra-based Raising Hope Education Foundation, the ACT Minister’s Work Health and Safety Council, and the local Bendigo Bank. She has also been a member of the ACT Government’s Reconciliation Council, and is the inaugural convenor of the ACT Mentor Walks program for women. Before transitioning to a full-time Non-Executive Director, Nadine spent much of her executive career in human resources and workplace relations within large complex organisations. Notably, she was the Chief People Officer at the Australian National University for a decade. Nadine holds a PhD in organisational change and industrial relations, as well as tertiary qualifications in business and law (honours). She is also a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
• Nadine is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and holds tertiary qualifications in law, human resource management and industrial relations. She is a member of International Women’s Forum (Australia) and regularly presents at AICD education sessions and events on workforce and people and culture matters. • Nadine’s specialist expertise is in leading and governing large-scale people and culture transformation in major organisations. She has introduced substantial reforms in workplace environments, introduced ground-breaking new staffing and safety arrangements and policies, negotiated multiple enterprise agreements in both state and federal jurisdictions, and is deeply familiar with all aspects of contemporary HR practice. She is an astute experienced non-executive director who has worked in a wide variety of industries, dealt with both unionised and non-unionised workplaces, and governance of critical incidents. • Executive expertise of 20+ years in public and private health and higher education sector. Nadine concluded her executive career after a decade as Chief People Officer at the Australian National University, a role which held responsibility for 4,500 staff in a highly unionised environment and is one of the largest non-government employers in the ACT. She has extensive workplace relations experience in leading and managing high performing, diverse teams, projects, and budgets. • An experienced commercial non-executive director in complex, highly regulated sectors. Her experience spans water and energy utilities, member based services and regulation, health, aged care and disability sectors, higher education, banking, government, community-based organisations, work health and safety in high-risk sectors, and indigenous reconciliation. Nadine drives change and performance within organisations. • Nadine’s experience as a Company Director and Deputy Chair is with both publicly funded companies and not-for-profit organisations. Notable appointments include Deputy Chair of a financial services company with over $100 million under management, and Deputy Chair of a state/territory government board. • Experience as a Director includes CEO recruitment, renewal and contractual negotiations, search and nominations of Directors, governance of large-scale IT projects, Board and committee charter reviews, board skills/capability assessments, board remuneration reviews, public reporting, strategy and risk reviews, and audit on remuneration matters.
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Nicola Hazell is a social innovator, board director and ecosystem leader committed to placing gender equality at the centre of the tech and innovation agenda. With a 20 year career spanning technology, government, journalism and civil society, she a systems thinker who traverses the gap between practitioner and policymaker, bringing together diverse groups of people to create lasting collective impact.Nicola has ventured from the frontline of startups to the heart of big tech in an effort to drive change. As Global Inclusive Innovation lead at Amazon Web Services, she led development of a new specialisation supporting tech teams and organisational leaders to embed inclusion into the baseline of innovation. In the startup environment, she has been instrumental in building a more inclusive ecosystem, including as Founding Director of SheStarts - an award-winning startup accelerator designed specifically for women. She has led startup delegations to San Francisco and New York, building connections