Career summary
A lawyer by training, Megan has worked as a solicitor, a university lecturer, a General Manager and a Chief Executive Officer. Since 2002 she has run her own management consulting business, Megan Hender Consulting, working with a wide variety of organisations, in SA and interstate.
Megan is an experienced senior executive and non-executive Director with a strong interest in strategy, governance and professional and enterprise risk. She is a member of, and has regularly presented at, the Australian Institute of Company Directors. She serves on a number of boards and committees including as chairperson.
Megan is also an experienced mentor and an IECL certified organisational coach.
In 2010 Megan was elected as a Councillor at the City of Adelaide, where she served two terms, including 18 months as Deputy Lord Mayor.
Qualifications
Bachelor of Laws (LLB)
Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice (GDLP)
Senior executive experience
Principal: Megan Hender Consulting
Chief Executive Officer: Connecting Foster and Kinship Carers SA
Legal Manager: Peregrine Corporation
General Manager: Johnston Withers Lawyers
HR and Admin Manager: Minter Ellison Lawyers
Board experience
Current roles:
Fleurieu Biennale Art Prize: Board member
Previous roles:
Adelaide Festival of Arts: Risk and Audit Committee member
Johnston Withers Lawyers: Advisory Board member
Dame Roma Mitchell Trust Fund: Advisory Board member
Connecting Foster and Kinship Carers SA: Chair
GOGO Foundation: Chair
SA Leaders: Advisory Board member
Adelaide Festival of Arts: Board member
Adelaide Central Market Authority: Board member, and member of Audit and Risk Committee
Capital City Committee: Member
City of Adelaide Community and Economic Development Committee: Chair
City of Adelaide Audit and Risk Committee: Member
Adelaide Convention Centre; Board member, and member of Risk and Audit committee.
Palliative Care Council of SA: Deputy Chair
Welfare Rights Centre of South Australia: Member of establishing committee
Adelaide Showgrounds Farmers’ Market: Member of establishing committee and Deputy Chair
City South Association: Chair
People’s Choice Credit Union (and formerly the Savings and Loan Credit Union): Independent member of the Disclosure Panel
Gilles Street Primary School: Member of Governing Council
Interests
Travel (most recently walking coast-to-coast across Scotland), reading, theatre and live music, tending a small vineyard at McLaren Vale.
Publications
Saying Goodbye: stories of caring for the dying. ABC Books 2004