Boards, Governance and Leadership

This workshop explores the roles and responsibilities of board members. It covers the important fiduciary duties, and takes a dive into the Acts, Regulations, Codes and Policies that apply to organisations governed by a board or committee.

We’ll cover the following, as well as answering all your questions:

• Responsibilities of board members How to access and utilise relevant consumer information to guide your work
• Fiduciary duties Reducing duplication and improve efficiency for clients, carers and staff
• Governance versus management
• Acts, Regulations, Constitutions and Policies
• Codes of Conduct
• Conflicts of interest
• Risk management and insurance
• Where to find the information and policies required to fulfil your role

Presented by:

Jon Staley – Trainer, Governance and Community Leadership, the Institute of Community Directors Australia (ICDA)

BA (Hons), DipEd, Certificate IV (Training and Assessment), Dip Gov, FICDA

Jon has a background as a teacher, trainer, social entrepreneur, filmmaker and writer. He began his career teaching at Melbourne’s Northland Secondary College, where in 2000 he was awarded the Peter Clarke Teaching for Reconciliation Award based on his work with the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal community at the school. He spent several years being mentored by and working alongside Gunditjmara artist and filmmaker Richard Frankland and together they developed a cross-cultural education program, Planting Seeds, which shone a light on the invisible load that Aboriginal communities in Australia have carried in the wake of colonisation.

In 2008 Jon founded the not-for-profit youth media social enterprise Youthworx, which uses creative and commercial media to work with young people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, and he led the organisation until 2020 when he joined Our Community.