Plenary Presentation 5 - Alexandra Robertson, 27South Advisory
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| Wednesday, September 30, 2026 |
| 8:50 AM - 9:30 AM |
| Victory Room A |
Details
Executive dashboards are designed to create visibility and support confident decision making. But what happens when the picture they present is accurate, reassuring and still insufficient to understand the critical risk beneath it? This session explores why capable organisations and experienced leaders can miss what later appears obvious, and what executives and directors can do differently to test whether confidence is genuinely supported by operational reality. Beyond the Dashboard: Keeping It Real asks a deceptively simple question: what does the information in front of us actually allow us to know?
Speaker
Alexandra Robertson
27South Advisory
Plenary Presentation - Beyond the Dashboard - Keeping it Real
Alexandra Robertson FIChemE CEng is a chemical engineer and senior operations executive with nearly 30 years of international experience across energy, mining and infrastructure in the UK, New Zealand and Australia. She has held senior leadership roles across operations, engineering, process safety, asset management and transformation with Shell, Origin Energy, APA Group and BHP, most recently as Chief Operating Officer of Quantem.
Her career has included executive accountability for complex high hazard operations, major projects, critical risk, asset integrity and organisational change, spanning both strategic decision making and operational delivery.
Alexandra is Managing Director of 27South Advisory and is currently working with the IChemE Safety Centre on executive education in the governance and leadership of critical risk.
