ABC's business guru heads for exit

Michelle Guthrie’s handpicked business transformation expert, who spearheaded the ABC’s content restructure in November, has left the ABC before the plan could be bedded down.

Debra Frances was originally brought into Aunty as a consultant to work on the restructure of the organisation but Guthrie was so enamoured of her skills she brought her in-house, giving her a staff card and the newly created title of “head of transformation”.

But just two months into the project – which will see the old TV, radio and news divisions broken up – another exec, Anne Milne, is stepping up to complete “the execution phase of the restructure”, according to an email to the executive team from finance chief Louise Higgins.

“As you know, the ABC has done a significant amount of work in shaping its Content Team Redesign proposal,” Higgins said. “With this work largely complete I wanted to let you know that Debra Frances will be leaving the organisation from today and will be pursuing other opportunities. I would very much like to thank Debra for her hard work and wish her all the best for the future.”


Source: theguardian