Fiona Schutt
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Executive General Manager, Corporate Services
Melbourne Water
Fiona Schutt is the Executive General Manager of Corporate Services at Melbourne Water, where she leads enterprise wide functions that drive organisational performance, culture and long term value creation. With a career spanning multinational business, statutory governance and the not for profit sector, Fiona brings extensive expertise in financial transformation, strategy and planning. She is recognised as a trusted business partner who takes a proactive, organisation wide approach to delivering results and building strong stakeholder relationships.
Fiona is passionate about cultivating high performance cultures where people can connect with organisational purpose, optimise values and achieve meaningful impact. Her leadership approach challenges traditional thinking around finance, embedding it as a strategic driver of organisational success.
Drawing on her experience leading teams through complex change and competing priorities, Fiona offers practical insights into maintaining clarity, protecting team wellbeing and making sound decisions under pressure in fast moving environments.
SESSIONS
Day 1
3:25
Mini Leadership Labs
Lab A: Resilience in High-Pressure Environments
The rules keep changing. Priorities shift. Teams are stretched thin. Learn how to lead decisively through ambiguity, protect momentum when others are burning out, and stay anchored when the pressure builds.
Fiona Schutt, Executive General Manager, Corporate Services, Melbourne Water
Lab B: Building Executive Presence and Self-Belief
Develop your leadership confidence by understanding how to back yourself, speak with authority, and position yourself for progression.
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Lab C: Building Strategic Influence
Learn how to manage up, shape decisions, and shift thinking to drive outcomes across your organisation.
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Lab D: Leading High-Performing, Inclusive Teams
Unpack what it really takes to build and sustain a team that consistently delivers results. This lab focuses on the behaviours, systems and leadership practices that drive accountability, trust and performance for long-term success – even in the face of conflict, underperformance, or team dysfunction – to support long-term success.
Elizabeth Kim, Head of Customer Experience, Product and Marketing, Transurban