By Jessica Anstice
Outlook Community Centre has welcomed two new faces to its board of management.
The Pakenham community centre has appointed Sally Curtain and Chris Buckingham as board members.
“Their addition to the board continues to add a significant breadth of expertise and knowledge to the organisation”, Outlook Community Centre president Fran Boyd said.
Mr Buckingham is an Australian Institute of Company Directors graduate, while Ms Curtain is an accomplished public sector senior executive with significant experience in leading transformational change across state and local government.
With experience working in senior leadership roles across business, community and government, Mr Buckingham is recognised for his capacity to provide positive leadership, inspire change and having people work together for the greater good.
“The pursuit of a just and fair society and change for the greater good are what get me out of bed in the morning, along with a strong cup of freshly brewed coffee,” Mr Buckingham said.
“The opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to a wonderful organisation like Outlook was too good to resist.”
An extensive list of impressive accomplishments, Mr Buckingham was a finalist in the 2012 Melbourne Awards for Individual Contribution to Melbourne’s profile, and has served in a voluntary capacity as Adjunct Professor at Victoria University’s College of Business.
Not only is he is well-known to the Pakenham community for his role as Casey Cardinia Libraries CEO, he is president of Public Libraries Victoria, and a member of the Australian Library and Information Association.
Ms Curtain has successfully led organisational and operational changes within diverse and complex public sector agencies.
Her achievements include restructuring the former Department of Justice to better meet the needs of regional communities, creating new agencies such as the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (IBAC), scaling up services to a burgeoning population in City of Casey, and operating as a regulator to modernise registration and licensing for VicRoads.
The community-minded woman is on the Board of NORTH Link and was previously on the board at Casey Cardinia Library Corporation from 2013-2018.
Ms Curtain hopes to leverage the skills and experience she has developed across her career into the not-for-profit sector.
“I wish to contribute to the values and mission of the organisation and I feel a strong values alignment,” she said.
She also holds an MBA and a Bachelor of Applied Science in Environmental Health and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
