Dilys Bertelsen
Dylys Bertelsen OAM GAICD is founder and CEO of Windsor Group, a Brisbane-based executive search and board recruitment firm serving nonprofits, and a board member of the PA Research Foundation.
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Sep 21, 2026
Clare BraundHOST
What drew you to recruitment and motivated you to start your own business and what does the Windsor Group do differently?
Dilys BertelsenGUEST
That wasn't part of my long-term plan, but it was, as you often do in this sector...
Dilys BertelsenGUEST
I was interviewed by an exceptional woman by the name of Chris McGinty, who was in recruitment at the time.
Dilys BertelsenGUEST
And she suggested that this might be something that I should have a look at and that I was to go away and try and get a job in one of the bigger agencies and learn how to do this really, really well.
Dilys BertelsenGUEST
And that's exactly what I did and fell in love with it because it was all about people again.
Dilys BertelsenGUEST
It's all about making people happy and looking after people but also the organisations that you're recruiting for and helping them to be successful by building really, really good teams.
10 MINS LATER
Clare BraundHOST
So after nearly 25 years in this work, what's changed the most about how boards think about diversity and what hasn't changed nearly enough?