What’s keeping directors awake at night? – Director Sentiment Survey 2024

Overview

Please join us as we discuss insights into the strengths and challenges of New Zealand’s governance community across a broad range of entities and issues.

In conjunction with the ASB, the IoD survey our members every year to get a high-level view of what’s important to directors on economic, business and governance issues. 

IoD General Manager, Governance Leadership Centre Guy Beatson will be joined by ASB Chief Economist Nick Tuffley and IoD Senior Governance Advisor Judene Edgar, to discuss the current impacts being felt most keenly by directors and boards and what some of the longer-term trends are.

Join us for our virtual launch event to hear about this year’s findings, including:

• Business and economic confidence
• Key issues top of mind for directors
• Impacts on short-term pressures
• Strategic and organisational governance issues
• Ethics, culture and conduct matters
• Technology trends and opportunities
• Future skills and increasing complexity and risk

Nick Tuffley

Nick Tuffley was appointed as ASB’s Chief Economist in January 2007, having previously worked at Westpac and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.  Nick studied at Canterbury University, graduating with a Master of Commerce in Economics.  

He and the rest of the Economics team provide regular analysis of economic developments and the outlook through written publications and media comments.  Their key objective is to help the bank’s clients make better-informed business and personal finance decisions.  The Economics team has won 4 Consensus Economics Forecast Accuracy Awards for their NZ forecasts.

Guy Beatson

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Guy is an experienced senior leader who has worked with public, private and not-for-profit entities in New Zealand, Fiji, Mongolia, Australia and the United States. His previous senior roles include Deputy Chief Executive, Strategy and Organisation Performance at Te Puni Kōkiri; Deputy Secretary Natural Resources Policy at Ministry for the Environment. Most recently, he ran his own freelance consultancy practice supporting public sector senior executives and their teams to deliver high quality decision-making, advice and policy implementation. In each of these roles, he engaged on a range of natural resource, environmental and other issues with iwi/hapū and other Māori interests. 

Judene Edgar

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Judene is a Senior Governance Advisor with the Institute of Directors’ Governance Leadership Centre providing best practice advice, guidance and advocacy for directors. She is also a trustee of the Rātā Foundation and Network Tasman Trust, and Chair of the Nelson Historic Theatre Trust. 

Prior to joining the IoD Judene ran her own consultancy for over 20 years specialising in governance, policy, research, strategy and communications working across a wide range of sectors, including housing, health, economic development, solid waste, aviation, not-for-profit and infrastructure. 

She was a local government elected member for 12 years and a director on a range of public entity boards. She has a background in behavioural science and communications and is a Chartered Member of the IoD.

Additional Information

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Contact

Kristyn Chandler-Yates
National Sponsorship and Events Manager
+64 27 207 2592
Kristyn.Chandler-Yates@iod.org.nz