Sue Chamberlain-Ward
Executive Manager, People & Culture
Gowrie Victoria
An energetic, passionate and professional executive level leader, I pride myself on being both strategic and pragmatic.
Building on my experience in medium and large NFP and commercial organisations, I developed the first Strategic Workforce Plan for Gowrie at a time when the sector and organisation were going through great change.
By focussing on our core values, understanding what we could control, articulating our decision-making principles and ensuring we have short term and long term plans in place, we have delivered great outcomes - a highly engaged workforce who is a beacon for excellence in early learning, with turnover, time to fill and vacancy rates that are some of the best in the sector and a professional development framework that supports our work internally and across the sector.
Building on my experience in medium and large NFP and commercial organisations, I developed the first Strategic Workforce Plan for Gowrie at a time when the sector and organisation were going through great change.
By focussing on our core values, understanding what we could control, articulating our decision-making principles and ensuring we have short term and long term plans in place, we have delivered great outcomes - a highly engaged workforce who is a beacon for excellence in early learning, with turnover, time to fill and vacancy rates that are some of the best in the sector and a professional development framework that supports our work internally and across the sector.


Sue Chamberlain-Ward
Executive Manager, People & Culture
Gowrie Victoria
An energetic, passionate and professional executive level leader, I pride myself on being both strategic and pragmatic.
Building on my experience in medium and large NFP and commercial organisations, I developed the first Strategic Workforce Plan for Gowrie at a time when the sector and organisation were going through great change.
By focussing on our core values, understanding what we could control, articulating our decision-making principles and ensuring we have short term and long term plans in place, we have delivered great outcomes - a highly engaged workforce who is a beacon for excellence in early learning, with turnover, time to fill and vacancy rates that are some of the best in the sector and a professional development framework that supports our work internally and across the sector.
Building on my experience in medium and large NFP and commercial organisations, I developed the first Strategic Workforce Plan for Gowrie at a time when the sector and organisation were going through great change.
By focussing on our core values, understanding what we could control, articulating our decision-making principles and ensuring we have short term and long term plans in place, we have delivered great outcomes - a highly engaged workforce who is a beacon for excellence in early learning, with turnover, time to fill and vacancy rates that are some of the best in the sector and a professional development framework that supports our work internally and across the sector.
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