Narelle Hooper Travels from NSW
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Narelle Hooper's Biography
Narelle Hooper is one of Australia's most respected journalists and communicators. A finance correspondent for ABC Radio, co-anchor of The Business Show on SBS and former editor of the Australian Financial Review’s BOSS Magazine, Narelle is known for her incisive commentary on finance, business and leadership.
Narelle Hooper is one of Australia’s most recognisable business commentators. Her unprecedented access to Australia’s top CEOs and business leaders throughout her career as a journalist has given her a unique perspective on what makes a successful business tick and how your organisation can attain that high performance edge.
A former editor of the Australian Financial Review's highly regarded BOSS Magazine, she is a member of the Walkley Foundation advisory board and the board of the Documentary Australia Foundation.
Narelle has interviewed Australia's top CEOs and business leaders and thinkers from around the world. She has finessed the art of turning a seemingly informal interview into a deeper conversation, rich with insights and personality. A warm and engaging MC, speaker and panel moderator, she is able to quickly build a strong rapport with her guests and audience.
Aside from hosting public forums for the Australian Financial Review and BOSS, Narelle has been a popular guest interviewer for the Meet the CEO University of NSW alumni series. Her public interview subjects have ranged from the Prime Minister to Reserve Bank Governor Glenn Stevens, NAB chief Cameron Clyne, Telstra CEO David Thodey, former Treasury Secretary Ken Henry, Wesfarmers CEO Richard Goyder, Crown chairman James Packer and Qantas chief Alan Joyce.
With a global perspective and interest in how disruptive technologies are reshaping how we live, work and do business, she has a knack of making complex topics accessible. She has worked as finance correspondent with ABC Radio's current affairs programs AM and PM, presented Radio National's weekly Business Report and co-anchored The Business Show on SBS TV. She also reported on national business and economic affairs for BRW Magazine from the Canberra press gallery. Narelle studied journalism at Canberra University, has a Masters in Financial Management from MGSM.
She has moderated events for the Sydney Opera House/s Festival of Dangerous Ideas, the Australia-Japan Joint Business Conference, Financial Review's annual Chanticleer chairman's lunch, the Australian Property Council, AHRI's Gender Equity in the Workplace Summit, the Financial Planning Association annual conference and the American Chamber of Commerce, and the Australia Israel Chamber of Commerce. She also co-chaired the inaugural Financial Review-Westpac 100 Women of Influence awards program.
Speaking Topics Include
Leadership Lessons: Insights garnered from Australia's top companies, their CEOs and chairs on success, failure, blindspots and rethinking their business.
The Productivity Premium: Research and practical Australian examples of the how companies can gain that high performance edge.
Gender benders: how Australia's top CEOs and their teams have become champions of change and are coming to grips with the increasing push for gender balance.
The Nature of Leadership: nature is anything but green and fuzzy. Here are five key lessons from nature that can help leaders and managers.