
Helen Cooney
Nominating Organisation: Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA)
Nominating Organisation: Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA)
Helen Cooney has been a Director on the Rest Board since 30 September 2020.
Helen is the National Assistant Secretary at the SDA, the Union for workers in retail, fast food and warehousing. Helen has been a policy, strategy and governance adviser in state and federal governments on the topics of early childhood, school education and workplace relations, and for a group-of-eight Australian university in the private office of the Vice- Chancellor and President.
She put the theory into practice for a decade as a President and CEO in the community sector serving expectant and new mothers and ran a private practice as a coach of strategy and governance professionals.