Sandy Verschoor - Board member, Ex Lord Mayor Adelaide, Festival guru, Mother, Wife

Sandy Verschoor is incredibly impressive. As part of the diversity series, I invited Sandy to Tough Talk with Jody Rowe.

For me it's important to learn from experienced people who have carved excellent careers from other industries. Sandy is one of those people, you will read a bio that has many successes, and I believe the glass ceiling was broken along time ago by people like Sandy.

Sandy is an experienced Board Director with extensive professional capability and significant executive leadership accomplishments in business, government and arts and culture.

She was Lord Mayor for the City of Adelaide from 2018-2022, leading the best economic recovery of any Australian capital city. She served as Deputy Lord Mayor, councillorand general manager for the City of Adelaide deliveringseveral multi-million dollar projects and programs. This included Ten Gigabit Adelaide Australia’s first city-wide fibre optic network, Market Square development a landmark project giving city new residential and business amenity, 88 O’Connell Street, the City Library, and numerous Public Art installations.

Prior to that Sandy worked for more than 25 years in executive leadership roles, largely focused on Australia’s Arts and Culture scene, as a successful activation and culturalstrategist and has fostered, promoted and developed some of Adelaide’s richest cultural experiences.

A Churchill Fellow, a Bloomberg Harvard alumnus and anadjunct at the University of South Australia, she has served on many boards and is the current Chair of the Art Gallery of South Australia and the SA Heritage Council. Sandy has worked interstate and overseas and taught Strategic Marketing for the Master of Communications for UniSA in Adelaide, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Sandy is proud South Australian and passionate about Adelaide’s ongoing journey to become a creative city where arts and culture, innovation and a pioneering spirit are celebrated. 

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