Last week I reported on the very disappointing outcomes of the 2008 EOWA Census of women in leadership.  Unless you’ve had your head in the sand or been focused on more pressing issues, you would have seen the Census coverage in all of the newspapers, business mags and practically every website relating to women in business.  In […]

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Every 2 years the EOWA produces its Census of women in leadership.  The recognised benchmark for gender diversity in corporate Australia, the Census is the most quoted statistic in Australia relating to women in the workplace. So let me ask… if you were to assess how well your company has performed in attracting and retaining women […]

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This week I spoke at the finale event for the NSW Women in Finance mentoring program for 2008.  No doubt the program participants will look back on 2008 in years to come as a time when many great lessons were learned – both from their mentors and the financial crisis unfolding around us. It’s always easy […]

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These here are tough times.  The path is getting rockier and it’s manifesting in many ways.   So you think you’re not suited to the culture of your company?  That it’s unsupportive or unappreciative of the contribution you bring?  According to Avril Henry, our guest mentor in our last Take the Lead roundtable, there are only 3 […]

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Last week I was on a friendtoring call – you know, one of those phone calls you get from a friend who rings to ask your professional opinion (like the term? My friend David Lee came up with it and gifted it to me when he told me to stop mentoring for free and to turn […]

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Congratulations to Julie Ward who was sworn in today as a Supreme Court judge in NSW, the first woman to be directly appointed in NSW without first serving as a magistrate or district judge first. Ms Ward was admitted as a solicitor in 1982 and in 1988 was made the youngest ever partner of Mallesons. She […]

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