Effective Governance Clients

'We recently used Effective Governance to provide a Board, Chair and Director Performance Review identifying strengths we could build on and areas where we needed to improve our performance both as a board and as individual directors. The survey process provided a robust framework for comparison against accepted governance criteria and the flexibility of open responses to identify opportunities for improvement.  The experience was an effective catalyst ... to reassess the way they approach their role as directors.I recommend the Effective Governance...to boards that want to ensure they maximise their contribution to their organisation.'

John G Herbert, Chairman
Condamine Alliance

'Effective Governance worked with us at our recent strategic planning retreat and with their facilitated approach and guidance, we established clarity of our current position within the challenging global financial crisis environment.  Their experience and input enabled us to re-focus and set our strategic direction and future purpose.'

Peter Carlin, CEO,
Service One Members Banking

'These toolkits are of a very high standard and I have no doubt that they will be of considerable benefit to my members. They will save valuable executive time and resources when implementing the new APRA standards. The toolkits also take the guesswork out of what needs to be done and provides comfort that the APRA standards will be effectively implemented.'

Raj Venga, CEO,
Australian Association of Permanent Building Societies

'Effective Governance has worked with us in 2007 and 2009 conducting our board and chair evaluation process.  We were impressed with the process and outcomes and will consider using their services again in the future.'

John Kindler, Chairman,
Newcastle Airport Corporation

'As Chairman of St Vincent and Mercy Private Hospital, I was very impressed with the professional approach undertaken by the team from Effective Governance.

The scope of the review was relevant and detailed and enabled quality reports to be produced which summarised succinctly and clearly the salient points and a roadmap going forward.  The Senior Advisor was always available to assist and the presentation to the board was excellent, well done to all.'

Jack O'Connell, Chairman,
St Vincent and Mercy Private Hospital

'Following a successful merger, a detailed board assessment had been done this year by Effective Governance and we found one of the outcomes of the process, particularly when you've got anonymity and an external party carrying it out, is a great measure of independence.   This reassures everybody that appropriate probity and care is carried out.  There are no idiosyncrasies of individual board members influencing the process.....it is fair to say there have been lessons learnt'

Gary Green, Chairman,
Community CPS Credit Union

'This evaluation was most constructive for our Board...I appreciate the productive interaction I have had with Effective Governance in this process.'

John Dempsey, Chairman,
Energex

'The on-line Board evaluation and subsequent governance workshop delivered the outcomes the Board needed to embark on the next phase of its governance development program.'

Myles Clacherty, CEO,
Central and Southern Queensland Training Consortium

'Over a number of years Effective Governance has worked closely with the directors of ahm in making them a more effective board.  The annual evaluation adds significant value to our governance process.  The graphs provide us with a good snap-shot as to where we are at.  However, I found the most powerful and insightful outcomes of our board evaluations are the one on one interview comments which are captured throughout the findings report.'

Michael McMahon, Former Chairman,
ahm

'The Boardroom Barometer provides us with immediate feedback on how we are going individually and collectively as a board.  This allows us to make changes as we go rather than waiting for our annual board evaluation.  We are finding it very effective and can highly recommend it.'

Ian Langdon, Chairman,
Dairy Farmers

'We recently used Effective Governance to conduct  a Committee Evaluation and  found that they were highly efficient in the  application of the process conducted and we were more than happy with the level of communication throughout the assignment.'

Laurie Gillespie, Committee Chair,
Stanwell Corporation

'Many local subsidiaries of multinationals struggle with implementing sound governance. The expertise and processes from Effective Governance assisted Parsons Brinckerhoff to establish an outstanding Advisory Council to enhance our governance practices, and also guide us in the growth of our business in the coming years.'

Stuart Glenn, Managing Director,
Parsons Brinckerhoff Australia Pty Limited

'Effective Governance worked with Tabcorp to develop and implement an IT governance framework that will assist us on our journey to a higher level of IT governance maturity and effectiveness'

Luke Healy, CIO,
Tabcorp Casinos Division

'On the day, Effective Governance displayed a very professional approach which helped us to achieve the strategy objectives'

Gavin Bailey, General Manager - Business Development,
Diversified Construction Corporation Pty Ltd

'The Strategic Planning process from Effective Governance gave us all a very clear strategic overview of where we are heading.'

 Charles Wright, General Manager,
Neumann Petroleum

'Effective Governance provided Pacific Seeds with a sound platform to review our existing strategic plan. From this we have updated our Mission, Vision and Value Statements and challenged a number of our long standing ideas.

The process was testing, but the facilitators ensured we understood why we needed to put so much effort into our strategic thinking.'

Chris Bazley, Managing Director,
Pacific Seeds Pty Ltd