Rachel Condos-Fields: Staying the Distance

Most conversations about corporate governance begin with structure—committees, charters, the machinery of oversight. This one begins on the side of a dirt road in Nepal in 1999, and I make no apology for that, because the road turns out to explain the boardroom rather better than the boardroom usually explains itself.In this episode of On the Subject of Leadership, I speak with Rachel Condos-Fields OAM—Independent Non-Executive Director of Stanwell Corporation, Queensland's largest electricity generator, and founder of The WattleNest, a venture connecting corporate Australia with elite athletes.Her career is an unusual instrument for examining where authority actually lives. She spent eighteen years at Computershare observing the boards of some of Australia's largest listed companies from the service provider's chair—watching them work without being of them—before taking a director's seat herself. She has since added the founder's chair, which is to say the one seat in the modern…