Diane J Grady

Ms Grady has been a full time independent director of public companies and not-for-profit boards since 1994. She is currently a member of the McKinsey Advisory Council, the Centre for Ethical Leadership/Melbourne Business School, the NSW Innovation and Productivity Council and the Heads Over Heels Advisory Board. She is Chair of Ascham School and the Hunger Project Australia. Previously she was a Director of BlueScope Steel Limited, Woolworths Limited, Goodman Group, Wattyl Limited, Lend Lease US Office Trust, Lend Lease Limited, MLC and a Trustee of the Sydney Opera House. She was also President of Chief Executive Women and chaired the group’s taskforce which published the CEO Kit for Attracting and Retaining Female Talent. Ms Grady was formerly a partner at McKinsey & Company where she spent 15 years consulting to clients in a broad range of industries on strategic and operational issues. She was a worldwide leader of the firm’s Organisation and Change Management Practice and the first woman outside the United States to be elected to McKinsey’s global partnership. In Australia, she headed McKinsey’s Consumer Goods, Retailing and Marketing Practice Group. Ms Grady was made a member of the Order of Australia in 2009 for her contribution to business and to the promotion of women leaders and in 2001 received a Centenary Medal for service to Australian society through business leadership.