Lara has focused on internal audit and governance risk and compliance for over 25 years. She established PwC’s Internal Audit, Governance, Risk and Compliance practice in Auckland. Lara has held many leadership roles in PwC New Zealand, including Risk Assurance Auckland Leader, Markets Leader, Chief Risk Officer, Chief Strategy Officer, National Strategic Account Programme Leader. She is currently the Auckland Office Managing Partner, Advisory Markets partner and serves on the boards of Global Women and the Cancer Society of New Zealand. These roles, together with her client reach, ensures her insights and recommendations are grounded in real life.

Lara has worked with some of Aotearoa New Zealand’s largest organisations, helping them to achieve their objectives for contemporary and world-leading risk and internal audit functions, and helping to lift their governance practices. Many of the organisations she has supported have had to rethink their operating models, and she has worked with them through the spectrum of initial adoption of agile practices right the way to the implementation of totally new ways of working.