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Governance & Risk Management Forum 2025

Governance Institute of Australia
U City, 43 Franklin Street, Adelaide SA
Thursday 08 May 2025, 8:15AM — 5:00PM

This year, the Forum will focus on embedding accountability in governance and risk frameworks. Accountability is a pillar of good governance. It is also the piece that is often called into question when governance fails, and the organisation is consequently exposed to risks across multiple dimensions.

Embedding accountability in governance and risk frameworks

After the sellout series last year, the Governance Institute of Australia is delighted to invite you to join the 2025 Governance and Risk Management Forum to discuss the most urgent and resonant challenges and practical strategies for accountable governance. The Forum gives you state-relevant and practical ideas and insights to implement immediately.

Hear from the respected voices in governance and risk management and be empowered with market-leading knowledge and skills to help you tackle the challenges you face in your role.

The themes for 2025:

The 2025 Governance and Risk Management Forum will reflect on the indelible connection between good leadership and accountability. And the strategies to ensure that leaders remain accountable to their stakeholders. How do you integrate transparency into decision-making? How do you find and mitigate pressure points in systems, structures and processes across the organisation that could challenge ethics and accountable decision-making? How do you build and communicate an accountable workplace culture? How do you foster individual and collective responsibility as part of risk culture?

Key Topics

The stellar panel of practice and thought leaders will discuss

  • Drivers for accountable leadership – people, purpose, performance
  • The obligations for leaders – legal, social and moral
  • Designing responsibilities, reporting requirements and lines into governance architecture
  • Building and communicating an accountable workplace culture
  • Meaningful ESG reporting
  • Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024 – Changes to the scope of privacy and data security
  • Crisis management and PEAR
  • Aligning crisis and risk management
  • Building a cross-functional and integrated risk management approach
  • People risk management approach to identify top organisational risks and mitigation strategies

Who should attend?

Business leaders and managers cannot afford to miss this update, including:

  • Company Directors 
  • Company Secretaries 
  • C-Suite including CEOs, CROs, CIOs, CISOs, CTOs, CDOs 
  • General and Senior Managers 
  • Heads of security 
  • Governance and Risk Management Professionals 
  • Anyone else with governance or risk management responsibilities 

The forum is relevant for all sectors including listed, non-listed, government and not-for-profit. 

Speaker highlights

Dr Niki Vincent, Victorian Commissioner, Gender Equality Victorian Government
Joanne McDonald, FGIA Group Chief Legal and Risk Officer and Joint Company Secretary, Kelsian Group
Carolyn Hewson, Independent Non-executive Director, CSL Limited
Donny Walford, Non-Executive Director and Founder behind closed doors
Susan Stone, Credit Union SA Chair of Economics, University South Australia
Taryn Shearn, Chief Legal Officer & Company Secretary, People’s Choice Credit Union

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