Hello - thanks for coming to my website. My name’s Narelle Hooper. I’m an advisor, author and director who helps organisations that do good work, do better in a world that’s changing fast. 

I bring deep experience in business and the media and warmth, practical perspectives and can-do energy to the teams and groups I work with. 

In 2017, I relaunched Company Director Magazine, the member magazine for 43,000 members of the Australian Institute of Company Directors as Editor in Chief. Company Director was subsequently recognised as 2018 Best Business Publication and Magazine Cover of the Year - Business by the Publish Australia awards jury.

I’ve had a long commitment to sustainable business, leadership and governance. I’m also a member of the Table of Ten at mwah.live the world’s most human online knowledge base for work, a non executive director of The Ethics Centre and Documentary Australia Foundation.

I grew up in country NSW, in a family of seven, where we ran a dairy farm and the local pub while mum also worked night shift as a nurse. I was the first in my family to go to university and that makes me a deep believer in the power of education to transform lives.

I was founding co-chair of the Australian Financial Review Women of Influence Awards, a former editor of the AFR’s award winning BOSS Magazine. During more than two decades in business journalism, I’ve interviewed hundreds of CEOs, national and global leaders to discover their defining leadership lessons and gain insights on where they go right and wrong. 

I’m curious about the world, people and ideas and interested in anything that can help make business and the community stronger, more sustainable and vibrant - from architecture and design to good governance, nature, science and technology.

I travel from Sydney, Australia.