Yvette Gunn

Yvette is a senior executive with 18+ years’ experience leading people, culture, safety, governance and organisational development functions across complex, regulated and community-focused organisations. She brings experience as a not-for-profit Board director and CEO, with strong public sector understanding gained through senior leadership roles within public authorities.

Recognised as a trusted advisor to CEOs, Boards and executive teams, with proven capability in enterprise-wide cultural transformation, organisational governance, strategic risk management, industrial relations, strategy execution and organisational performance improvement. Yvette is experienced in leading both small-scale change initiatives and major organisational restructures, with a strong track record in building high-performing leadership cultures and delivering sustainable capability uplift.

Yvette has deep sector knowledge across community and social services, health, essential services, engineering and construction, supported by qualifications in leadership, change management, governance and human resources. Yvette is also accredited in DiSC behavioural profiling, Myers-Briggs and PROSCI change management.

Key areas of expertise include:

• Executive leadership, Board advisory and CEO-level governance
• People, culture, safety and organisational development leadership
• Strategic and operational planning
• Strategic risk management and organisational governance
• Enterprise-wide cultural transformation
• Organisational restructures and change management
• Industrial relations and workforce strategy
• Leadership development and executive capability uplift
• Team development and high-performance culture building
• Organisational performance monitoring and improvement
• Public sector, not-for-profit and regulated environment experience