Kate Costello

Your Strategy, Not Your Strategies (or ... creating a strategic direction)

• Constructing a Winning Strategic Plan
• Involving the Board in the process
• Communicating and Marketing the plan
• Delivering it!

It's All About Performance! (or ... how to implement & monitor the strategy)

• Monitoring implementation of the strategy
• Succession Planning: for Boards and Management
• Board Performance Evaluation: performance standards, personal competencies, KRAs, performance criteria

and remuneration.

• Executive Performance: objectives, KPIs, performance management processes and remuneration.

Kate Costello is a lawyer and was previously an academic at the University of South Australia and in management with a commercial law firm before establishing a management consultancy.

Kate has 20 year's experience in corporate governance and strategy through her consulting work with the boards of client organisations, her directorships and her involvement as a facilitator in the Company Directors' Course offered by the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

In governance consulting, Kate works with boards and executive management on strategy, restructures, skilling programs, and board evaluations. Her clients have included:

• Macquarie Bank Ltd
• Caltex Australia Ltd
• F.H. Faulding & Co Ltd
• World Bank
• Department of Defence

Kate is an executive director of Governance Matters, a company which develops governance programs for the institutes of directors in Australia and South East Asia, undertakes on-line board evaluations and benchmarking and develops governance - related products including proforma board policies and "How To" governance publications.

Kate's board experience includes directorships in:

• Integrated Research Ltd
• Saab Systems
• LabTech Systems Ltd
• Festival City Broadcasters Ltd
• South Australian Totalizator Agency Board
• Australian Central Credit Union

and chairman of:

• Bassett Consulting Engineers
• Saab ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems)

Kate is a member of the Independent Selection Committee, University of Adelaide. She was a committee member for the independent review of the governance of soccer in Australia and is a steering committee member of the OECD's "Creating The Future" project.