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Ingrid Williams
Ingrid Williams is an experienced CEO and Chair with nearly 20 years’ experience as a non-executive director. She has held senior management roles and directorships in not-for-profit, ASX-listed companies, private businesses, membership-based organisations, and government business enterprises at both state and federal levels. Her work has taken her from the coal face of local operations through to the boardrooms of national peak bodies.
Trained as an intensive care and paediatric nurse in the UK, Ingrid migrated to Australia in 1991. She completed a Bachelor of Educational Studies, her Masters of Health Administration at the University of NSW followed by a Diploma in Business and the AICD Company Directors Course. She is also a graduate of the INSEAD International Directors’ Programme. In her executive career, she managed large hospitals in the Healthscope group and became CEO of a 1,100-bed aged-care business in Victoria. She has founded successful businesses in aged care operations and consultancy. In 2010, Ingrid was a finalist in the Telstra Business Woman of the Year.
Working in both regional and capital city geographies, Ingrid has focused on turning around underperforming businesses, improving operating efficiency and asset management, and balancing the demands of regulatory compliance, investor aspirations and community and consumer expectations. She leads organisations with large workforces comprising unionised employees, contractors, sessional staff and volunteers.
At General Practice Registrars Australia, Ingrid, as Chair of Remuneration and Nominations, contributed to the governance of over 25,000 members and their remuneration. In her role as Chair at LASA (Victoria), she facilitated the amalgamation of federated bodies into a national organisation representing and supporting providers of aged care services. This amalgamation gave the organisation its hundreds of member organisations their first significant voice in federal policy decision-making.