Julie Garland McLellan
CSP, FAICD, MBA, CEng
NSW, AUSTRALIADoes your audience need to succeed at the highest levels in business?
From the building site to the boardroom - Julie Garland McLellan creates exceptional success through clear communication and great governance. She help align communication from the boardroom to the coalface. Let Julie hone your audiences' soft skills to a cutting edge strategic advantage. Julie is a former CEO and chartered engineer; she brings a practical perspective. She is also a skilled conceptual communicator and knows that business issues are people issues, in boardrooms, backrooms, barracks and ballrooms.
Julie is an entertaining, knowledgeable and provocative presenter on diversity, director responsibility, governance and gender issues.
She is an internationally acclaimed author of five books and the editor of 'The Directors Dilemma' newsletter which is read in 36 countries around the globe.
She is an engineer who worked through the ranks to become CEO of a multinational corporation and can talk from experience about the challenges of succeeding in activities that are not the everyday norm. She is a chartered engineer with an MBA (which she studied in Spanish), an advanced diploma in company directorship, a certificate in entrepreneurship and a post graduate diploma in applied finance. She is also a hard-working mother who has experienced the muck and muddle of muddy building sites as well as the glitz and glitter of global boardrooms.
In her private life Julie is a passionate martial artist. She has a 1st dan black belt in Kyokushinkai Karate and is a former British silver medallist. She also has a 3rd dan black belt in Chun do Kwan Taekwondo and is an enthusiastic, unsuccessful, boxer.
Julie uses her experience and depth of knowledge show audiences how to be more effective through practical corporate innovation and know-how. Her ultimate objective is to empower directors and managers to add value.
Julie Garland McLellan CSP FAICD provides practical governance advice to boards and directors; she has served on 20 boards over 21 years. Her professional qualifications include a diploma and an advanced diploma in company directorship, and numerous specific governance courses. She is a frequent writer, developer, and presenter of online and in-person education for company directors either direct to each board or through professional institutions such as The National Association of Corporate Directors (USA), The Australian Institute of Company Directors, The Governance Institute of Australia, CPA Australia, Taiwan Corporate Governance Association, and the Oman Centre for Corporate Governance and Sustainability.
Does your audience need to succeed at the highest levels in business?
From the building site to the boardroom - Julie Garland McLellan creates exceptional success through clear communication and great governance. She help align communication from the boardroom to the coalface. Let Julie hone your audiences' soft skills to a cutting edge strategic advantage. Julie is a former CEO and chartered engineer; she brings a practical perspective. She is also a skilled conceptual communicator and knows that business issues are people issues, in boardrooms, backrooms, barracks and ballrooms.
Julie is an entertaining, knowledgeable and provocative presenter on diversity, director responsibility, governance and gender issues.
She is an internationally acclaimed author of five books and the editor of 'The Directors Dilemma' newsletter which is read in 36 countries around the globe.
She is an engineer who worked through the ranks to become CEO of a multinational corporation and can talk from experience about the challenges of succeeding in activities that are not the everyday norm. She is a chartered engineer with an MBA (which she studied in Spanish), an advanced diploma in company directorship, a certificate in entrepreneurship and a post graduate diploma in applied finance. She is also a hard-working mother who has experienced the muck and muddle of muddy building sites as well as the glitz and glitter of global boardrooms.
In her private life Julie is a passionate martial artist. She has a 1st dan black belt in Kyokushinkai Karate and is a former British silver medallist. She also has a 3rd dan black belt in Chun do Kwan Taekwondo and is an enthusiastic, unsuccessful, boxer.
Julie uses her experience and depth of knowledge show audiences how to be more effective through practical corporate innovation and know-how. Her ultimate objective is to empower directors and managers to add value.
Julie Garland McLellan CSP FAICD provides practical governance advice to boards and directors; she has served on 20 boards over 21 years. Her professional qualifications include a diploma and an advanced diploma in company directorship, and numerous specific governance courses. She is a frequent writer, developer, and presenter of online and in-person education for company directors either direct to each board or through professional institutions such as The National Association of Corporate Directors (USA), The Australian Institute of Company Directors, The Governance Institute of Australia, CPA Australia, Taiwan Corporate Governance Association, and the Oman Centre for Corporate Governance and Sustainability.
The Truth About Getting Onto Boards
So you want to get to the very top? This presentation will give you the practical tools to build a career that you have always dreamed of but never managed to build.
Joining a board is seen as a sign that you have 'made it'; board members are the elite of the business world. Directors are respected for their experience and sought after for their insights; they hold the most highly esteemed part-time jobs available anywhere on our planet. They operate in a high stakes environment...
Presenting to Boards
Learn how to make successful presentations at the highest corporate level:
- how to research the needs of a discerning audience
- How to craft excelent board papers
- How to plan a meeting and create an agenda that drives decision-making
- How to present with confidence and skill
- How to handle discussions and debate
- How to secure agreement
- How to follow up so that what got decided gets done!
Managers succeed one conversation at...
Managing Conflicts of Interest in the Boardroom
How embarrassing it is when your company is besmirched and besmeered because a percieved conflict was not managed!
This practical presentation will give participants the skills to identify, manage, document and report on conflicts at all levels within a corporation or non-profit organisation.
Conflicts abound: Nobody joins a board because they are completely disinterested in the company and what it does. Any personal interest is a potential conflict of interest and must be...
Common Dilemmas for Women on Boards
An inspiring keynote presentation about the challenges facing women who venture int the boardroom (and about the best ways to meet and beat those challenges).
This presentation will give insights into how women can gain more prominence within theior organisations and fulfill their leadership potential. Using examples from her own life and recent public events to illuminate the material and illustrate the simple steps to success.
Boards Behaving Badly
A wry look at the things boards and directors have done recently. A behind the scenes glimpse of what may have been going on inside the boardrooms of the companies that are in the headlines.
This presentation will have the audience gasping at the audacity, laughing at the hubris and howling at the slapstick efforts of regulators to scramble after nimble corporate wrongdoers. They will leave energised and enlightened but also newly skilled to identify and manage...
Boards Build Businesses
An inspiring look at how the best boards add value to the businesses they govern. Big on strategy and growth, light on compliance and bureaucracy - the best bards are an asset to their businesses; this presentation will show what can be done and how to do it.
Succeed in Corporate Presentations
Learn how to make successful corporate presentations:
- How to gather information, assess needs and sell without selling
- how to research the needs of a discerning audience
- How to write reports so meetings can be decision-making events - not talkfests
- How to plan a meeting and create an agenda that supports effective decision-making
- How to present with confidence and skill
- How to handle discussions and debate
- How to secure...
Meet Ms Communication
Communication is human, we all need to do it; so why is it so hard? More important; How can we communicate with clarity to achieve the desired effect?
This presentation will engage and energise an audience by showing how:
- communication starts before you say a word
- gracious communicators win in the end
- skills can be learnt (and bad habits unlearnt)
- communication is a process anyone can learn
- feedback can be sought, used and given
-...
Facilitated meetings
Julie has chaired, facilitated, presented and attended thousands of meetings. Let her work with you to MC or facilitate your event - strategy workshops, conferences, risk workshops, etc.
Please call for details.
Boards and Corona Virus - how to lead through the crisis
Directors make decisions under uncertainty all the time. Current levels of uncertainty are unprecedented. The need to take decisive action must be balanced by the need for prudence and defensible courses of action that will pass scrutiny even with the benefit of hindsight which the directors currently don't have.
How can you reschedule an AGM?
How do you...
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