FIONA’S THOUGHTS: GETTING REAL ABOUT RESILIENCE The world is a tough place. Bad things happen. Look at what’s being going on across the world recently – terrorist attacks, fires – the loss of life and ongoing ripple effect of these recent incidents is truly...
In 2014 ANZ introduced a program to help their senior women become more visible. Their study of women in Australia and New Zealand showed that visibility may be a missing link in promoting more women into senior leadership roles. The survey ANZ undertook found that...
Soccer season has started again and I’m spending (mostly) sunny Autumn Saturdays trekking the Northern Beaches suburbs of Sydney watching my boy play in the Manly Vale Lions – his Under 8’s team. This is his 3rd year of playing and he loves it. He clearly thrives on...
I’ve been working since I was 15 (I blame my Saturday job in Saxone Shoes, Falkirk for my lifelong shoe addiction), but my first professional job post University was with large Scottish law firm McGrigor Donald. One of 13 trainee lawyers, I arrived in the Glasgow...
My son started Year 1 last week. He was so excited to go back to school – it was cute, hearing him talk about his new teacher, and which kids ended up in his class from last year. We’re fortunate to be part of a strong school community on Sydney’s Northern Beaches....
It’s no secret that we are working longer and longer hours (an Australia Institute study found that Australians work the longest hours in the developed world with an average of 1,855 hours at work each year, which is 200 hours more than employees of other countries),...
