Donna Burr brings more than 25 years’ experience across chartered accounting, HR business partnering and executive search, with a deep specialisation in sourcing and deploying senior interim executives to solve complex leadership and performance challenges. She works with organisations facing change, pressure, or opportunity, where speed, judgement and execution matter.

As a Partner at Watermark Search International since 2018, Donna partners with boards, CEOs, and executive teams to access high calibre interim leaders on demand. Her network spans experienced CEOs, CFOs, COOs, HR executives and transformation specialists who are accustomed to stepping into ambiguity and delivering impact quickly. Her work covers private and public sector organisations across Financial Services, Government and Regulators, Not for Profit, Healthcare, ASX listed companies, and Energy & Utilities.

Donna is known for her ability to quickly understand context, cut through complexity and match organisations with interim leaders who bring both technical depth and strong personal presence. Her approach is grounded in curiosity, authenticity and commercial realism, and she is valued as a trusted advisor during periods of transition, turnaround, and growth.

Alongside her professional work, Donna has a strong personal interest in health, fitness, and wellbeing, particularly the connection between health span, work span and sustained executive performance. This perspective shapes how she thinks about leadership effectiveness in high pressure environments, and how organisations can better support executives to perform at their best over longer, more meaningful careers.

Donna is a qualified Chartered Accountant (1996), an Affiliate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (2021), and a Melbourne Business School alumna (2007). She is a strong advocate for purpose led leadership, economic empowerment, and future of work models that embrace on demand executive capability. Donna is passionate about unlocking the expertise and economic value of our maturing global workforce and believes interim and portfolio based leadership will play an increasingly important role in how organisations access experience, capability, and judgement when and where it is needed most.