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The Corporate Counsel Show: From legal team head to GM

Here, an executive general manager discusses how legal counsel can make the vocational transition to business leadership, whether it’s a general manager, chief executive, or managing director role.

October 29, 2025 • By Noemie Veñegas
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In this episode of The Corporate Counsel Show, host Jerome Doraisamy speaks with Australian Unity Trustees executive general manager Kirstin Follows about her legal career and how she came to AUT, supporting that business through both the COVID-19 pandemic and the aged care royal commission, what she found stimulating about in-house legal life, and why work in the aged care sector is so important.

 
 

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Follows also delves into how the transition to the EGM role came about, how she has found the jump to her current role, the skills she needed to develop, how her approach to the EGM role differs to what she was doing as law department leader, how and why heads of legal should be aiming to lead what’s happening in the boardroom, not just being a participant, and why such lawyers are well placed to take on executive roles.

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