Building Innovation, Confidence, Getting Your Ideas Heard & Having a Go with Susan Oliver
Chasing Parity
English - September 07, 2021 12:00 - 50 minutes - 34.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsNon-Profit Business Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Listen to this episode as the Chair at Alice Anderson Fund, Susan Oliver, shares her experience and expertise in rebuilding stakeholder trust and finding potential in legacy assets, all whilst mapping a path for a company to succeed into an unknown future.
Susan has been involved in the governance of global companies since 1996 including IFM Investors, Transurban Group, and the restructure of Centro Group, but before that, she also had a long career in technology and futures consulting, culminating with leading the Commission for the Future for the Australian Government.
This conversation with Susan is very eye-opening especially for promising women-led startups in the pipeline. She also has other interests in a range of not-for-profit causes. Currently, she sits on the board of the Melbourne Theatre Company, The Wheeler Centre and Melbourne Chamber Orchestra. She helped found The Big Issue in Australia and co-founded Scale Investors to fund female-led startups.
Susan is also an active angel investor through Scale and dedicated to supporting innovation and participation by women as both entrepreneurs and investors, all in all, she has contributed significantly to the innovation, IT, and arts policy agendas in Australia.
She was awarded a Centenary Medal in 2001 for service to Australian society in business and an AM in 2019 for significant service to business and to women.
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Susan Oliver
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-oliver-am-134a244/
Scale Investors
Website: https://scaleinvestors.com.au
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/scale-investors-ltd/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/scale_investors
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/scaleinvestors/
Alice Anderson Fund (Launch Vic)
Website: https://launchvic.org/general/angel-sidecar
Links from the Show
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Australian Institute for Company Directors
https://aicd.companydirectors.com.au
CSIRO
https://www.csiro.au/en/
Golden Seeds Ventures
https://goldenseeds.com
Launch Victoria
https://launchvic.org/general/staff-board