Russell Yardley

Russell is a professional company director. His board experience includes Chairman ASX listed Tesserent, board member ASX listed Powerhouse Ventures, Wunderman Bienalto, the Victorian Government Purchasing Board and the Alannah and Madeline Foundation. He is an experienced director, entrepreneur and innovator, with expertise in technology, strategic & business planning and an extensive knowledge of government.

Russell was appointed a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors in 2012. His expertise has been recognised by SmartCompany as one of Australia's 12 Most Influential People in Tech and as an Honorary Member of the Australian Computer Society.

Russell Yardley

ASX Chairman, Non-Executive Director with a strong strategic and technology background

The Resolution

How automation will challenge the role of boards

Automation records every decision made in its implementation. Compared to when a human makes a bad decision, when something goes wrong, the audit trail has a concrete path back to the board...

By Russell Yardley

25 Jun, 2018

The Resolution

Can you have too much board and management collaboration?

More collaboration between the board and management is not always a good thing - some guidelines for when you might have overstepped the mark...

By Russell Yardley

21 May, 2018

The Resolution

Automation and outsourcing can do more damage than good

Boards need to consider whether automating or outsourcing business functions in the interests of short-term cost saving may actually be a long-term handicap....

By Russell Yardley

18 Apr, 2018

The Resolution

Boards must step up to fill the vacuum created by dysfunctional government

Whilst government stagnates, companies and boards have never had more opportunity to drive social progress....

By Russell Yardley

06 Mar, 2018

The Resolution

Why boards are getting Bitcoin wrong

In Australian boardrooms I often hear Bitcoin compared to the tulip bubble. But the comparison is factually wrong - and there’s a number of other reasons why boards can’t dismiss Bitcoin as a pure bubble....

By Russell Yardley

30 Nov, 2017

The Resolution

Why the board shouldn't focus on disruption

Everybody is talking about disruption. We’re in an agile economy. It’s easy to imagine we’re at constant risk of being made redundant by something newer and sexier. I’m here to say: stop. You can’t set out to be a disruptor. You can only lo...

By Russell Yardley

28 Aug, 2017

The Resolution

The three essential characteristics of a growth-focused board

Jack Welch said, “If change is happening on the outside faster than on the inside, the end is in sight.”I’ve thought about this often over the past thirty years. As Managing Director of three technology companies, I was swamped. Every day I...

By Russell Yardley

07 Aug, 2017

The Resolution

Why a company can't grow faster than its directors

When you really think about it, a company can’t sustainably grow faster than the rate at which the board grows its own capability. If you don’t grow the capacity of the board and its directors, every company will reach a stage where its gro...

By Russell Yardley

13 Jul, 2017

The Resolution

Why good directors make bad decisions

Beyond bad luck there’s also a number of reasons why bad decisions happen. Here’s the five most common reasons why I think good directors make bad decisions. ...

By Russell Yardley

13 Jun, 2017

The Resolution

Hoping for the best is not a cybersecurity strategy

Terry Roberts is a global cyber intelligence expert, with a career spanning 30 years in the US intelligence community, In this interview Russell Yardley talks to Terry about the current state of Australian cyber security, whether it still m...

By Russell Yardley

15 May, 2017

The Resolution

Centro and technology disasters: When are directors liable?

Most Australian company directors are very aware of the Centro case. The case has very clear implications for how directors deal with and review the company accounts. But I think the broader implications of this case are too frequently miss...

By Russell Yardley

07 Apr, 2017

The Resolution

10 questions for the board to ask on cybersecurity

Cybersecurity is a potential minefield of risk. Every company must be thinking about it, and every board needs to be asking the hard questions. By hard questions, I don’t just mean “can people hack our systems?” it’s important to go back ev...

By Russell Yardley

07 Apr, 2017