Jane Pickering

Jane Pickering is the Chief Executive of Eldercare Australia Ltd.  Eldercare is one of the largest residential aged care and retirement living providers in South Australia. Jane has held several Executive positions in the health and aged care sectors prior to being appointed as CE of Eldercare in 2013.

Ms Pickering has undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications in Nursing, Education and Business. She is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a Fellow of the Australasian College of Health Services Management, and a Justice of the Peace for SA.

Jane has held several Board positions in the community housing and health sectors and is a member of industry advisory Boards for both Flinders University of South Australia and the University of Adelaide.  Jane was the private sector representative on Workplace Equality and Respect Project Governance Group for the SA Government.

She has a solid reputation for leading cultural change within organisations and improving organisational performance through building high performing teams whilst embedding cultures of respect, diversity, and inclusion.

Jane is the Chair of the SA Leaders for Gender Equity. This group of Executives is in the business of levelling the playing field through increasing women’s representation in leadership roles in business and addressing the gender pay gap in business.   The group promotes that “talent is gender neutral, but bias is not”.