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Susan Heron is the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Institute of Management, VT and Executive Chairman of Idria Pty Ltd with facilities in Melbourne, Sydney, Gold Coast and Hobart.
AIM is Australia’s major executive development, training and management research organisation with offices across the nation.
This independent organisation has 25,000 professional members and more than 5,000 corporate partners. It operates on a federated model with each state responsible for its own operations.
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Prior to joining AIM, Ms Heron held various senior corporate management positions including Chief Operating Officer and Head of Corporate Strategy, ANZ Institutional Banking; Executive Director and Head of Banking (Melbourne), Rothschild Australia; and Chief Manager at Westpac responsible for one of Institutional Bank Victoria’s largest teams as well as responsibility for Institutional Bank Perth.
Ms Heron is a current Board member of Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust, the IOOF Foundation and a member of the Federal Government’s Energy Efficiency Skills Consultative Committee. Previous Board appointments include NM Rothschild & Sons (Australia) Limited, Museum Victoria, Malthouse Theatre,The Australian Institute of Management Victoria & Tasmania, Southern Health Care Network and Water EcoScience Limited. She was also Chairman of the Defence Reserves Support Council (Victoria), Deputy Chairman of the Country Fire Authority (CFA) and was a member of the Victorian Government’s Finance Industry Consultative Committee.
Prior to Ms Heron’s banking positions, earlier career highlights include qualifying as a radiographer, employment as the only female shipbroker in Australia and one of only three in the world. During Ms Heron’s six years as a shipbroker, she became the first woman in Australia to qualify as an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers (London).
Ms Heron has a Bachelor of Economics Degree from Monash University in Melbourne and a Diploma of Applied Science from RMIT.
Away from work, Ms Heron’s interests include scuba diving, archeology, history and plagues.
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