Episode 21
Jenni Smith
From her corporate life in broadcasting, telecommunications and financial services sectors to establishing her own successful advisory practice, Jenni Smith has some fascinating insights that she shares with us in this podcast. Jenni also discusses women in business, diversity and inclusion, the opportunities in the insurance sector and her mantra of ‘giving it a crack’. Having dropped out of school when she was younger, listening to Jenni speak, you can’t help but be impressed by her tenacity and resilience to improve her knowledge and by default, her value to any organisation that she is a part of.
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About Jenni Smith:
Jenni runs her own advisory practice assisting Chairman, Board committees and CEO’s in areas of culture, leadership, performance and remuneration. Clients range from start-up companies to ASX200 in a range of sectors. Additionally, she is an executive coach to ‘C’ suite executives.
Jenni has extensive experience as an international ASX senior executive director, her most recent role was Group Executive Officer, People and Communications for QBE Group Insurance (market cap AUD $14b). She is experienced in working with regulators, investor community, proxy groups and the media during a time of uncertainty and low shareholder confidence.
Previously Jenni spent four years with Telstra Corporation in Sydney and Hong Kong, and prior to that worked in the UK broadcasting industry at ONdigital and Carlton Television.