Holly Kramer, a director of AMP, Australia Post and Nine Entertainment, said boards needed the right balance of people with operational experience too. Ann Sherry , chief executive of Macquarie University Graduate School of Management , has claimed that if companies fail to achieve gender diversity on boards, then they will also fail to meet more ambitious diversity targets. Ann Sherry agreed that diversity is too narrowly focused on appointing women directors, but argued that gender is the easiest target to achieve. The business leader was addressing the findings of a survey of prominent company directors that suggested simplistic ideas of diversity are stifling the ability to recruit talented people to boards. The findings, published on Wednesday by Carnival Australia and Carnival Australia , were the result of a survey of two directors, chairmen and chief executives.
Ann Sherry , chief executive of Macquarie University Graduate School of Management , has claimed that if companies fail to achieve gender diversity on boards, then they will also fail to meet more ambitious diversity targets. Ann Sherry agreed that diversity is too narrowly focused on appointing women directors, but argued that gender is the easiest target to achieve. The business leader was addressing the findings of a survey of prominent company directors that suggested simplistic ideas of diversity are stifling the ability to recruit talented people to boards. The findings, published on Wednesday by Carnival Australia and Carnival Australia , were the result of a survey of two directors, chairmen and chief executives.