[1] Wilson currently serves as Chairman of Australian Human Resources Institute Limited,[2] Yarra Valley Water Ltd.[3] and Vision Super.
As Chairman of the Australian Human Resources Institute, Wilson has also led research projects on issues including employee retention, mature workforce participation, and coaching and mentoring.
[13] Wilson gave the Twenty Second Kingsley Laffer Memorial Lecture at the University of Sydney on the topic of 'Australia in a Globally Competitive Workplace – Challenges and Opportunities' on 26 November 2014.
Wilson advocates policies that allow women to balance personal commitments while pursuing their careers, including flexible working arrangements, mentoring, support for those returning from maternity leave, affordable access to childcare[14] and remuneration benchmarking.
[18] He has also spoken out urging employers to do more to combat domestic violence[19] and has called workplace sexual harassment a "corporate cancer," arguing that higher female participation rates in senior business executive roles and board postings would help to cure the problem.
"[21] The 'C-Suite' Project is a scheme created by the Business Council of Australia in partnership with the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI).
[23] Wilson has been critical of poorly designed bonus schemes for executives, noting that "problems occur, and shareholders usually become agitated, when poorly constructed key performance indicators are used, and results for the executive team look more like a good night out at the casino than robust indicators which consistently measure links between applied effort and earned results.
"[24] Large bonuses not clearly linked to exceptional performance are particularly problematic, he has written, in light of the recent worldwide financial crisis "in which indefensible excesses have occurred at the same time as shareholders have suffered and employees in their thousands have lost their jobs.