Those who know me know that my mantra is to keep it simple and tell it as it is… so it might seem counter intuitive that I think it’s a bad thing the Federal Court of Australia is ordering the names of witnesses be disclosed in the Kristy Fraser-Kirk / Mark McInnes case.  However with […]

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Much is said about the gender diversity quotas introduced to Norway’s boardrooms since the 40% quota was introduced in 2005.  But I find in the presentations I deliver that surprisingly little is known about this poster child country for gender equity and the path it followed to achieving the more than 40% of women on […]

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“Until the Government looks like the society it seeks to govern there will be an imbalance in the decision making process.”  Why has the number of female political leaders dropped? Partly because 9 out of 20 of the sitting members who did not seek re election were women, but also because women make up less […]

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There is a lot of election conversations happening everywhere, and I was forwarded this video from Get Up, that opens with Tony Abbot’s quote: “I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests […]

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Kristy Fraser-Kirk has made headlines recently by launching a $37 million lawsuit against David Jones for the behaviour of former CEO Mark McInnes and the corporate world has been stirred into a conversation rife with diagnoses of the moral to this story. There has been a lot of discussion about what Fraser-Kirk is hoping to […]

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The first four years of sphinxx have been huge. And words can’t communicate how honoured I am to have worked with so many outstanding women and employers of women to see their goals achieved, and my dreams for sphinxx reached. We have reached a turning point at sphinxx this year, running our Ascend days in […]

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