The Australian Institute of Directors speak to me about being a director……..

I’m a futurist — I’m fascinated with what’s around the corner, trying to improve the way we live. It’s why I’ve been involved in so many startups and why I started Cityhop. I’ve been lucky being on boards in so many different industries and sectors, but generally they all have the same challenges — managing people, driving revenue, growth, asset replacement. Sitting on boards has taught me to think differently about risk. How do we ensure we stay in business? Directors have to think about risk all the time. Not just operational, financial, compliance or reputational, but what tomorrow looks like and what we can do to mitigate it. Read more here https://www.aicd.com.au/risk-management/framework/plan/lessons-in-cultural-collaboration-from-new-zealand-boards.html

Lessons in cultural collaboration from New Zealand Boards

My Five Wishes

My number one wish is for more compassion. Yes, I know you all got sick of ‘kindness’ during Covid.
Compassion means more – it’s a social feeling that motivates people to go out of their way to relieve the physical, mental or emotional pain of others and themselves.
Compassion literally means ‘to suffer together’ when we put ourselves in someone else’s shoes, I think it makes it easier for us to be kinder and more generous. Read more

https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/01/04/victoria-carter-the-birds-and-the-bees/

January 2024 | Newsroom

At the November AGM, of Laura Fergusson Trust Auckland, Victoria Carter and seven others were elected to lead a new direction.

January 2024 | NZ Herald

There has been unbelievably rapid technological change in the way we do business over the past 20 years that has left many people behind. How is business accommodating those people?

Many of these changes are in the name of efficiency (which usually means more revenue), and I haven’t noticed any banks reporting lower earnings.

February 2023 | Newsroom

What makes one person decide they have enough, that they don’t need to buy a yacht?

Two women. Two contrasting stories showing how some people feel about their community.

One was about a woman who apparently saw an opportunity when the British Government needed PPE gear. Another woman gave away millions. Read more here

January 2023 | Newsroom

Ram raids make grim reading and grim times for shopkeepers. If we agree “it takes a village” there are things we can all do. Maybe the first thing to understand is what’s driving it.

A Christmas Eve story in the Herald reported a police analysis of 63 young ram-raiders and found more than half had come to police attention through family violence callouts before they were 3 years old. More than half had been reported as a missing person - so they had chosen to leave their home - and more than half had been picked up as an unaccompanied minor in a risky situation. These kids must think they have no future and maybe no one who cares about them?

January 2023 | NZ Herald

Opinion piece part 2 Ideas for politicians

It will take time but, without any investment, as Dave Letele said recently about ram raids: “If we think things are bad now, and we don’t do anything, imagine the kids of these kids.”

January 2023 | NZ Herald

Plans are under way to replace the former Laura Fergusson Rehabilitation site in Auckland with fast-tracked apartments.

Consent has been sought under the Government’s Covid fast-tracking response measures to build nearly 240 units on the site on Great South Rd in Epsom.

Victoria Carter, whose niece, Sophia Malthus, spent nine months at the former centre, said she saw a notice on the window of the building announcing the application as she walked by.

November 2021 | Stuff

Victoria Carter: Laura Fergusson Trust disabled rehab facility prepared for sale. The disabled are the minority that is ignored the most and treated the worst."

It's time for the Government, the appropriate agencies, all those operating in this space to work with LFT, the disabled and their supporters. Auckland desperately needs this central location for disabled people. There is nothing like it.

Step one is to stop the secret sale of the land - it’s an Auckland asset not the board’s. Aucklanders need to be part of the discussion on what will happen to it.

December 2020 | NZ Herald

Women have so many challenges in the work place and we need to feel more comfortable with talking about the things we have achieved.
Women could do a better job of promoting each other,” says Carter. “Each generation will be that much better at doing these things.
It’s all in the brag writes Paul Smith. Pictured above with Frankie Dettori MBE, the night he was awarded Longines 2020 Jockey.

October 2020 | Business Desk

Interview with Nine to Noon’s Kathryn Ryan,

Laura Fergusson Trust board spent $670,000 of public money and donations on consultants, including $95,000 to the Chairman, while it posted a million-dollar loss in 2019.

Victoria Carter, whose niece spent three months at the Centre after a horse-riding accident, is querying that spending. She says the inquiries have been met with stalling tactics and secrecy.

September 2020 | Radio New Zealand

**Victoria Carter: Climate emergency takes a front sat**

Two thirds of car journeys are short – less than 2km. So most people have an expensive large machine parked for 95 per cent of the time to do largely short journeys which could often be done via walking/biking.

July 2019 | NZ Herald

Ditch the car, save money, Why car share makes sense for Queenstown.

July 2019 | Otago Daily Times

**Why carshare services can make people happier, healthier and wealthier**

The average person spends 18 per cent of their income running a car that gets parked for 95 per cent of the time," says Victoria Carter.

January 2019 | Stuff

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The Kiwi women who are running organisations that were traditionally 'boys' clubs'

16 JULY, 2019 | BY FLEUR GUTHRIE

Victoria Carter, 54, on the year that the stock market crashed — and her job crashed —

7 JULY 2018 | WEEKEND HERALD

Victoria Carter: City needs to think outside the square

7 April 2015 | WEEKEND HERALD

Victoria Carter: Move on, career councillors, and let new blood in

10 AUGUST 2016 | NZ HERALD

A woman of influence, Entrepreneurial businesswoman, Victoria Carter ONZM was elected president of Auckland’s Northern Club, the first woman to hold the role in the private club’s almost-150-year history.

2018 | KIRSTY CAMERON - HOBSON WEALTH

Victoria Carter makes history as the first female president of Auckland’s Northern Club

2 JUNE 2018 | NZ HERALD

HONORING WOMEN WHO ARE REINVENTING, DISRUPTING AND MAKING AN IMPACT

2013 | FORTY OVER FORTY

Victoria Carter: Women definitely bring new thinking to company boards. If you sit at a table with mostly the same kind of people it means you will probably all be thinking the same and that won't help any industry move forward. Neither is it representative of our community or the world we live in, or our customers.

13 JULY, 2018 | NZ HERALD

Victoria Carter: Our house was once in a very leafy street.

All over the world cities are trying to go green, bring back birds and flowers for bees - look at the New York high line. I grew up in a city full of beauty, birds, trees, cherished gardens, and a magnet for bees.

13 JULY, 2018 | NZ HERALD

New Years honour for multi-tasking Victoria Carter

6 JANUARY 2016 | STUFF.CO.NZ

Brian Rudman: Thanks to Victoria Carter, our festival is on again

8 OCTOBER 2002 | NZ HERALD

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