Meet Our Boards

Patron, Founder and Ambassador

Founder

Fiona McDonald

Fiona McDonald’s career began as a light vehicle apprentice, during which Fiona started a networking group for women in trades, building relationships and establishing partnerships with business and industry.

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Ambassador

Kendra Heil

AFLW player Kendra Heil from the Essendon Bombers, a painter, has joined the TWA Community Foundation team as an Ambassador.

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Tradeswomen Australia Board Members

TWA CHAIR

Kit McMahon

Non-executive Director
Kit McMahon is a C-Suite executive with 20 years’ leadership experience and an in depth capacity for strategic planning and execution. Significant working knowledge of workforce development, workforce planning, skills (policy and practice), capacity and capability building at industry, organisation, individual, and community level.

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Amy Wells
TWA Board Member

Amy Wells

Amy is an engineer with private and public business experience. Skilled at growing people and business, Amy is often the foundation stone in times of change when teams and organisations are looking to scale, are scaling, or need to reshape.

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Award Winner Radmila Desic
TWA Board Member

Radmila Desic AM

Radmila was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day 2021 Honours List for her significant service to women in the construction industry, and to unemployed youth.

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TWA Board Member

Ruth Palmer

Ruth Palmer is a well-known business leader in the Northern Territory. With a Masters of Business Administration and over seven years of experience as Executive Director of the Property Council of Australia, she has become an adept and strategic leader in membership-based organisations. She previously served as a Shadow Policy Adviser for Women’s Policy in her previous political career.

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TWA Board Member

Richard Dent

Richard Dent, OAM FAICD, has exercised leadership for a better world for more than 25 years.  As a Chair, Board Member, CEO and Executive across multiple for-purpose organisations he has focused on inclusion, equity, governance, strategy and leadership.

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TWA Board Member

Kate Hughes Hallet

Kate operates her own business development and tender consulting service, supporting her clients to tender for and deliver major projects. Kate’s skills in this field are supported by a Bachelor of Civil and Environment Engineering and a Post Graduate Diploma in Project Management. 

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Tradeswomen Australia Community Foundation Board Members

TWACF Chair

Kate Hughes Hallett

Kate supports her clients to tender for and deliver major projects. Kate’s skills in this field are supported by a Bachelor of Civil and Environment Engineering and a Post Graduate Diploma in Project Management.

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TWACF Board Member

Charmaine Chalmers

Charmaine has been a Partner at PwC for 12 years and currently leads PwC’s Enterprise Digital business.  This is where industry and subject matter expertise is combined with leading coding capability, delivering custom machine learning, robotics and platform solutions to automate data normalisation, calculations, visualisations and outputs.

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TWACF Board Member

Richard Dent

Richard Dent OAM FAICD has exercised leadership for a better world for more than 25 years.  As a Chair, Board Member, CEO and Executive across multiple for-purpose organisations he has focused on inclusion, equity, governance, strategy and leadership. 

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Professional Woman in white shirt
TWACF Board Member

Ruth Palmer

Ruth Palmer is a well-known business leader in the Northern Territory. With a Master of Business and over seven years of experience as Executive Director of the Property Council of Australia, she has become an adept and strategic leader in membership-based organisations.

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Award Winner Radmila Desic
TWACF Board Member

Radmila Desic AM

Radmila Desic AM migrated to Australia at the age of seven after an earthquake destroyed her family home in Bar in the former Yugoslavia. Radmila began her career as an apprentice Carpenter Joiner in 1992. In 2010 Radmila received the 1st Place Gold Winner of the inaugural 2010 Centre for Leadership for Women’s National Advancement of Women in the Workplace Award (AWWA) for developing and implementing a state-wide strategy for Women in Construction. 

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Amy Wells
TWACF Board Member

Amy Wells

Amy Wells is an engineer with private and public business experience. Skilled at growing people and business, Amy is often the foundation stone in times of change when teams and organisations are looking to scale, are scaling, or need to reshape.

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