Conference-Speakers-2025
Conference Speakers
We are thrilled to bring you such a great group of speakers from across Australia sharing their journeys toward constructive culture and leadership in TedX style micro shares. Learn from CEOs and leaders from a diverse range of backgrounds, industries, and challenges, as they share their successes, learnings and future focus.
Richard Harding
Former icare, Tower Insurance New Zealand and TIO, Northern Territory
Richard Harding has been leading strategic change for over 35 years. He has been CEO and Managing Director of 3 different businesses over the past 16 years. Richard has specialised in taking on and leading organisations that need a turnaround, or are in crisis.
Richard’s career has been based on going into distressed underperforming businesses and creating a turn around and transformation both in terms of performance, and strategic clarity on how best to create sustainable value for the stakeholders in the business. In each case he had been the little to no attention paid to ‘culture, strategy and performance of the business’.
In 2021 after significant failure of leadership had led to the public and political sacking of its CEO and the replacement of the Chair of the board, Richard took on the need to revitalise and drive significant change at the NSW public insurer, icare.
“Each organisation I have taken on in the last 15 years has required significant cultural change, the rebuilding of a constructive and growth-oriented way of working that empowers people to make a difference.”
Over his career Richard has worked in financial services sector across Australia, New Zealand and Asia, and has experience in working in the private sector, ASX/NZX listed business as well as in public sector and government organisations.
Now after 35 years working at senior executive levels, Richard is beginning a new phase in life and building a portfolio of Board and advisory work, and seeking to pass on his knowledge and approach to leadership through his business Forefront Leadership.
Corinne Canter
Head Of Consulting, Human Synergistics Australia
Corinne is a senior consultant, facilitator and coach with Human Synergistics Australia. Corinne’s experience in leadership and organisations comes from over 25 years in leadership roles in Operations and Human Resources working in telecommunications, finance and construction industries. She is a published author on leadership, culture and innovation.
In 2012 she was Program Director and co-research lead investigating the “Science of Aha” with the University of Technology Neuroscience Research Unit investigating how to teach leaders to increase their capacity for new and innovative thinking leading to more Aha! moments.
Corinne’s passion is helping leaders create impactful collaborative teams, and to increase organisational effectiveness and business performance.
Corinne’s experience at operational and board levels enables her to work with clients that produce effective roadmaps that relieve organisational pressure points, enhance performance and drive sustainable results.
Angela Ewers
Chief People Officer, ARN Media
Angela Ewers is the Chief People Officer at ARN Media, a leading ASX-listed media and entertainment business operating in radio, audio, digital and outdoor in Australia and Hong Kong.
Angela is a HR thought-leader with a deep expertise in culture and engagement; organisational development and design; employment and industrial relations; coaching and leadership; and leading complex organisational change including through M&As.
Angela’s great passion is cultivating the conditions for teams to achieve their life’s best work. To do this, Angela brings a deeply humanistic and person-centred approach to HR practices and has a track record for building thriving, constructive workplaces delivering exceptional value for team members, customers, shareholders and the communities she operates in.
Ciaran Davis
CEO & Managing Director, ARN Media
Ciaran is responsible for the strategic and operational direction of ARN Media. He has transformed a business with large debt and a declining asset portfolio centred on traditional publishing, into one of the most exciting media businesses in Australia today.
Prior to becoming Group CEO if ARN Media, Ciaran spent five years as CEO of ARN repositioning the business to become the number one metropolitan radio operator in Australia.
Ciaran has over 20 years’ media experience working in over 15 countries throughout Europe and the Middle East and in 2022, became Chair of Commercial Radio and Audio in Australia – the industry body representing the interests of commercial radio broadcasters throughout Australia.
Siobhan McGlinchey
Former Regional VP Human Resources, APACSA
Post Graduate in Management, Charles Sturt University
Siobhan is an impactful, energetic and inspiring leader with over 15 years experience leading People and Operations teams within iconic food retail brands such as Nando’s, Yum (KFC & Pizza Hut) and McDonalds.
She is passionate about leading and developing teams to deliver outstanding results with the objective of optimising the customer experiences. Siobhan has a values-driven, purposeful and strategic leader, with strong executional focus.
Originally founded in Canada, McCain Foods is a global business that employs over 20,000 people worldwide and is a global leader in prepared potato products. They pride themselves on being a family and values-driven company, “celebrating real connections, through delicious and planet-friendly food“. In this session Siobhan McGlinchey will share the McCain story toward high performing, impactful, constructive leadership and culture.
Corinne Canter
Head Of Consulting, Human Synergistics Australia
Corinne is a senior consultant, facilitator and coach with Human Synergistics Australia. Corinne’s experience in leadership and organisations comes from over 25 years in leadership roles in Operations and Human Resources working in telecommunications, finance and construction industries. She is a published author on leadership, culture and innovation.
In 2012 she was Program Director and co-research lead investigating the “Science of Aha” with the University of Technology Neuroscience Research Unit investigating how to teach leaders to increase their capacity for new and innovative thinking leading to more Aha! moments.
Corinne’s passion is helping leaders create impactful collaborative teams, and to increase organisational effectiveness and business performance.
Corinne’s experience at operational and board levels enables her to work with clients that produce effective roadmaps that relieve organisational pressure points, enhance performance and drive sustainable results.
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