Governing supply chain resilience: Decisions and trade-offs for boards

 

This webinar is free for Chapter Zero NZ supporters.  When booking the event please enter the code SUPPORTER29JUL26.

Overview

Supply chain disruption is no longer an operational issue. It is a strategic one. From geopolitical instability to climate impacts and supplier concentration, the risks facing organisations are more complex, interconnected and persistent than ever.

For boards, the challenge is not simply understanding these risks, but governing them through clear, deliberate choices about how much disruption the organisation is prepared to carry, and the trade-offs required to manage it.

This webinar explores how directors govern supply chain resilience. How do you balance efficiency with resilience, cost with continuity, and global sourcing with local security? What happens when key suppliers fail, or when physical risks such as extreme weather disrupt critical inputs?

Drawing on real-world insights, the session will examine how organisations are using scenario thinking to test vulnerabilities, improve visibility, and build resilience as an organisational capability, not just a contingency plan.

At its core, this is about decision-making. Are you comfortable with the level of disruption your organisation is exposed to, and have you consciously chosen that?

Delivered by Chapter Zero New Zealand in collaboration with Climate Governance Initiative Hong Kong, this session will draw on international insights into how boards are navigating supply chain resilience and trade-offs across different markets.

Agnes K Y Tai

Agnes has served the financial markets across several jurisdictions for 46 years and is a frequent speaker and author. She started sustainable investing in 2010 for her family office and began conducting board training in sustainability and governance in 2012. She is an Adjunct Professor of HKU in Sustainability Leadership and Governance and a faculty member of Competent Boards (Board Intelligence). 

Her board roles include Council member of World Economic Forum, Global Future Council on Climate and Nature Governance and the Hong Kong Institute of Directors, Trustee of Chapter Zero Alliance (overseeing 35 Climate Governance Initiative chapters including Chapter Zero UK in 73 countries), Supervisory Board member of Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Board member of an NGO, and Advisory Council member of VTLP Impact Circle and Global Association of Risk Professionals (HK).

Florence Van Dyke

Florence is Executive Director at Canbury, a global sustainability-led and tech-enabled consultancy based in Sydney. Prior to this she was the Global Sustainability Lead at New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) the government agency charged with helping New Zealand businesses to grow internationally. 

She is an Edmund Hillary Fellow and was named on the Forbes 30 Under 30 List for recognition of her work in business and climate change. A lawyer by training, Florence previously working at Bell Gully and for the United Nations. Last year Florence returned to New Zealand from San Francisco where she graduated from University of California, Berkeley with a Masters of Laws focused on business and climate change. 

Florence co-founded Chia Sisters, a health beverage company supplying cafes and supermarkets nationally and in Australia, Hong Kong and the US.  She is also a Trustee and Co-Founder of Businesses for Climate Action.

Hone McGregor

Hone McGregor is Chair of Wakatū Incorporation, one of New Zealand's oldest and largest Māori-owned businesses, with interests spanning food and beverage, horticulture, property and innovation. Wakatū is the home of Kono, one of Aotearoa's leading Māori export businesses and producer of the internationally recognised Tohu Wines brand. 

Hone is also Chair of the Asia New Zealand Foundation, strengthening New Zealand's relationships across Asia through business, education and diplomacy, and Chair of Te Taumata, the Māori Trade Advisory Trust. He has extensive governance experience across Māori enterprise, international trade, innovation and sustainability. He serves on the Ministry for Primary Industries' Investment Advisory Panel and is a director of Kono NZ LP.

His governance interests focus on long-term strategy, resilience, international market diversification, geopolitical risk and innovation, and working with his boards to navigate the opportunities and trade-offs of an increasingly complex and interconnected Indo-Pacific region.

Judene Edgar (Facilitator)

CMInstD

Judene is a Principal Governance Adviser with the Institute of Directors’ Governance Leadership Centre and Chapter Zero NZ lead providing best practice advice, guidance and advocacy for directors. She is also chair of the Nelson Historic Theatre Trust, deputy chair of the Rātā Foundation, and a trustee for the Network Tasman Trust.

Prior to joining the IoD she ran her own consultancy for over 20 years, specialising in governance, policy, strategy and communications working across a wide range of sectors, including housing, health, solid waste, aviation, energy, not-for-profit and infrastructure. 

Judene was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to governance, local government and the community in the 2026 New Year Honours. She was a local government elected member for 12 years and a director on a range of private and public entity boards. She has a background in behavioural science and communications and is a Chartered Member of the IoD. 

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Contact

Carla Britz
National Events Coordinator
+64 27 223 2802
Carla.Britz@iod.org.nz

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