Niki is a senior risk executive and adviser with more than 30 years’ experience helping Boards and executives navigate complex strategic, risk and regulatory challenges.

She combines deep risk expertise with significant commercial and executive experience, having held senior roles at NAB and Deloitte and served as a Partner at Ashurst, where she led the operational risk and resilience offering. Her experience spans operational risk and resilience, compliance, financial crime, assurance, business continuity and transformation.

Niki works with Boards and executive teams to strengthen governance and decision-making, helping organisations protect value while taking risk deliberately in pursuit of strategy and opportunity. Her perspective is grounded in both advising organisations and implementing complex change as an executive.

At Blackhall & Pearl, Niki provides independent, evidence-based and commercially pragmatic advice designed to strengthen Board oversight, executive decision-making, strategic outcomes and value from risk.

Niki trained as a Chartered Accountant, is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and has completed the Advanced Risk Management program at the Wharton School.