Mark Fitzgibbon

Profile

Mark Fitzgibbon is a respected business leader best known for his tenure as CEO and Managing Director of nib Group, where he served from 2002 to 2024. Under his leadership, nib transformed from a regional mutual health insurer into an ASX-listed international business, delivering sustained growth, innovation, and shareholder value. Mark successfully led the company’s demutualisation and ASX listing in 2007, positioning nib as one of Australia’s most recognised health and insurance brands.

Before nib, Mark held senior executive roles across the public and private sectors, including CEO positions within local government and the national and NSW peak bodies for licensed clubs. His extensive leadership experience spans strategic transformation, organisational growth, and governance.

Mark holds a Master of Business Administration from UTS and a Master of Arts from MGSM. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and has undertaken executive education at Harvard Business School and INSEAD.

As a Speaker, Mark shares practical insights on leading through change, building resilient organisations, and navigating complex stakeholder environments.

Expertise

Talking Points

The Future of Work

COVID may have lit the flame but underneath our shift to hybrid working is technology. technology has long shaped how we live and work. New technologies of transport and weapons built Roman and British empires, steam and mechanization of the industrial revolution took us out of villages and cottages into cities and factories. The technology of the motor car took retail shopping away from CBDs into suburbs. we must embrace and adapt with the new technologies now supporting more distributed working. It may well make leadership all the more deliberate.

What Charles Darwin Teaches Us About Business Strategy

One of the more fascinating debates around business strategy concerns whether or not an organisations fortunes depend upon the big strategic choices they make or their ability to adapt to whatever future arrives (what some term economic determinism). Here we examine the competing philosophies and frameworks.

How to Become a CEO

While not for everybody, the role of CEO can be a very gratifying. One gets to steer the organisation and hopefully, enjoy a sense of accomplishment that hopefully comes with that responsibility. Yet while many are called few are chosen and climbing the typically hierarchical paths to the top is rarely straight forward. Education, experience, curiosity, political savvy, and humour are just a few of the many requisites. And staying on top can be just as challenging.