Skill Up - Governance Two Half Day Workshops

Skill Up - Governance Half Day Workshops

'How to secure a position on a Board' (Workshop 1)

and

'Practices of High Performing Boards' (Workshop 2)

Tuesday 6 May,

9am to 12pm and 1pm - 4pm

Naracoorte RSL and District Bowling Club

95 Ormerod Street, Naracoorte

NO COST

Topics:

Workshop 1 - How to secure a position on a Board

• What due diligence is necessary?
• The 'P' Plates of being a Board - how and when is the right time to make your mark?

Workshop 2 - Practices of High Performing Boards

• What are the attributes of a high performing board? How are these achieved?
• Covering group dynamics, group think, essential listening skills
• What to do when things go wrong?

Presenter: Kate Thiele, Principal Klarity 

Kate Thiele is an award-winning business leader with expertise in strategy, governance, and innovation. As the Founder and Principal of Klarity, Kate is a strategic advisor, executive mentor and facilitator with a demonstrated track record of delivering at national and international level. Kate’s wealth of experience enables her to draw on a range of strategies to support people to achieve their business goals with Klarity.

Kate advises and mentors boards, CEOs and executives across the not-for-profit, corporate and public sectors. Her board experience encompasses higher education, disability, the arts, technology, start-ups and conservation, and her executive career spans the manufacturing, retail, health, disability, aged care, and not-for-profit sectors. This includes a Top 50 company and three of Australia’s most recognisable not-for-profits.

In 2015, whilst CEO of Guide Dogs SA/NT, Kate was honoured with both the Telstra National and State ‘Businesswoman of the Year: For Purpose and Social Enterprise’ Awards, and had the privilege of being recognised as the South Australian Business Woman of the Year. In the same year, she became the first South Australian to receive a Harvard Club of Australia Fellowship to attend Harvard University, where she nurtured her strategic and not-for-profit management skills under the expert guidance of some of the world’s leading business professors.

Kate is currently President of Skylight Mental Health, Chair of the Adelaide Crows Foundation, Director of the Flinders Foundation and Deputy Chair of the UniSA MBA Advisory Board. She also holds a national role as the Executive Director of Meals on Wheels Australia.

Please bring the following:

• Pen and notebook - so you don't miss any critical information

Skill Up - Helping community organisations govern

The Governance Masterclass provides local board and committee members with an opportunity to upskill in non-profit and incorporated association governance of community organisations.

Four short online webinars presented by Natasha Rees between May 2024 and March 2025 were designed to strengthen individual leadership capacity and capability to support community and drought resilience. The topics covered came out of the original Governance Masterclass held in March 2024.

These two workshops are being held following the Board Governance Masterclass. Whilst there is no mandatory pre-requisite to attending these Workshops, it is advisable that the full day Governance Masterclass would be a valuable pre-requisite, depending on lived Board experience. 

This project is supported by FRRR, through funding from the Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund.