Denise has worked with and for a range of for purpose organisations, in chief executive, company secretary and non executive director roles. As a senior executive in community organisations and professional associations, she has played a key role in strategy development and implementation, business transformation, market and brand repositioning and organisational restructuring.

As a company secretary, non-executive director and chair, she has driven strategy review, led engagement with key stakeholders including regulators and alliance partners, and overseen the redrafting and adoption of new constitutions and regulations.

Denise delivers a number of courses offered by the Australian Institute of Company Directors, including The Board and the Company Secretary, and courses in governance, finance and strategy and risk that are designed specifically for the not-for-profit sector.

Denise has more than twenty years’ experience as a non-executive director, committee member, chair and company secretary in the For Purpose sector and regularly volunteers her services to the sector in these and other practical capacities.