IGO Interactive Annual Report 2019

Following the acquisition of Sirius Resources in September 2015, Kyle transitioned from Sirius to IGO as an Exploration Geologist. He has played an important role in integrating the data, property and general history of the discovery, resource delineation and development of the Nova-Bollinger deposit. Kyle spent a year and a half working on the Fraser Range Project before transitioning to a Project Exploration Geologist role at the Jaguar Operation where he was responsible for all aspects of its exploration and project management. In mid-2018, Kyle expressed an interest in developing his geology skills further through a secondment to our Nova Operation. Kyle was successful in securing the secondment and worked as a Mine Geologist for nine months at Nova before returning to exploration, this time promoted to a Senior Project Geologist to lead the West Kimberley Exploration Project. Kyle is married to Amy and is the father of two children, Jackson (2 years) and Amelia (2 months), balancing his role at IGO with raising a young family. Along with his career progression and the flexibility required to blend work and family, IGO is also supporting Kyle through a Masters of Economic Geology degree at the University of Tasmania in which he continues to maintain an impressive high distinction average. Kyle is recognised at IGO for his technical excellence as well as his personable and humble character and was awarded the 2018 IGO Award for Excellence in Geoscience. It is people like Kyle who truly make a difference at IGO. CASE STUDY: KYLE HODGES Support for the future Our support for two co-sponsored WA Mining Club scholarships for Geology and Indigenous students, along with mentoring and vacation work for these students, continued this year. This provides students who need support to study and enter our industry the benefit of the IGO network. IGO is also very proud to support a number of initiatives to encourage and foster the development of the next generation of leaders within our mining sector including; • Women in Mining WA mentoring program and networking events; • professional associations including AusIMM, AMEC and the WA Mining Club; and • tertiary, vocational and school institutions including WA School of Mines, Curtin University, University of WA, TAFE WA and a number of primary and secondary schools in our catchment areas. This year we also partnered with the CoRE Learning Foundation in another way to show our support for STEM learning development. Since 2005, the foundation and vision of CoRE has been based on a simple idea; an idea that education, industry and government need to connect and work collaboratively to provide relevant and purposeful education pathways into the resources industry. IGO shares this belief and supports CoRE’s focus on providing students with meaningful career development, facilitating a number of site visits and support for Professor Lisa Harvey-Smith’s tour of the Goldfields. Our Graduate and Vacation Programs have gone from strength to strength with a total of 13 first, second and third year graduates working amongst our workforce during FY19. Our Graduate Program offers university graduates a two to three year program commencing in January each year, with the aim of supporting them in their transition from study to career. In 2020, we will have 24 students within the program; a program designed to support, challenge and reward graduates in a work environment that will foster and develop them into future leaders and technical experts. It is this support that will create a bright future for the mining industry. EMPOWERMENT AND OWNERSHIP At IGO, we believe all employees should have the opportunity to be owners of the IGO business and share in the collective wealth that we create for our shareholders. We also believe that empowerment is key to motivation and the ability to gain satisfaction from the work we do. The importance of this statement is reflected in our 2019 engagement survey results where “having the freedom to do your role in the way you want to” rated the sixth most important factor for people’s motivation, after, (i) work/life balance, (ii) learning & development, (iii) good relationships, (iv) career development opportunities, and (v) having a sense of purpose. Given the importance of empowerment to our motivation, our engagement survey results provide some great insights and show pleasing progress on how we feel about empowerment at IGO including: Kyle (left) with Peter Bradford at the IGO Awards. IGO ANNUAL REPORT 2019 — 11