{"id":22844,"date":"2016-10-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.farmersweekly.co.nz\/cathy-brown-new-dwn-chairwoman\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T11:00:00","slug":"cathy-brown-new-dwn-chairwoman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.farmersweekly.co.nz\/news\/cathy-brown-new-dwn-chairwoman\/","title":{"rendered":"Cathy Brown new DWN chairwoman"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

Brown of Pahoia, just north of Tauranga, has been involved with Dairy Women\u2019s Network (DWN) since the late 1990s, first hearing about the organisation when she worked at CRV Ambreed.<\/p>\n

She quickly became a member of what was at that point a largely internet-based network and attended the organisation\u2019s first conference in 2001.<\/p>\n

She and husband Peter have two teenage children and run a dairy farm in Galatea, a kiwifruit orchard in Te Puke and an avocado orchard in Pahioa, where the family lives.<\/p>\n

Brown said she was looking forward to being able to serve the organisation that has given her so much over the years, and that she is so passionate about.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Dairy Women\u2019s Network is a great place to belong, and is extremely valuable to dairying women at any stage of their career.
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\u201cIt is still nimble enough that it\u2019s able to respond quickly to the needs of its members and the industry and does a wonderful job at providing relevant training, and is able provide support to its members when things aren\u2019t going well, which happens from time to time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kidd echoes Brown\u2019s sentiments about the valuable place DWN holds in the New Zealand dairy industry as she reflects back on her time as chairwoman.<\/p>\n

\u201cDWN really is a unique organisation doing things that make a real difference to real people in NZ\u2019s biggest export-industry sector,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a great place to grow, encourage and support talent in our dairy industry and a place to go to get inspired, get that bit of \u2018oomph\u2019 back to take on your own next thing no matter how big, small, challenging or business-as-usual that is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kidd was appointed chairwoman in 2014 to support specific change and growth that DWN had prioritised.<\/p>\n

She said the board and management team have worked well and that the objectives set have progressed positively.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Dairy Women\u2019s Network is a great place to belong, and is extremely valuable to dairying women at any stage of their career.<\/span>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Cathy Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n

DWN<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThe job is never over, but I feel like I have added value and DWN is in a good place to appoint their next chair as originally planned.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really thrilled the board is now in a place where internal succession is happening.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs an organisation, DWN is also ready for the change \u2013 it feels like we are at that tipping point of entering the next stage of growth.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe timing couldn\u2019t have been better from that point of view. A change now will support and be another catalyst for cementing the progress we have made to date.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cathy Brown has taken over as chairwoman of the Dairy Women\u2019s Network at this week\u2019s annual meeting. She replaces Justine Kidd, who is stepping down.\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":22845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t