Posted on 15 September 2008. Tags: Career Management, leadership, Management and Leadership, Offers
‘Power’ is an interesting concept. For me it conjures up many connotations, positive and negative. But mostly negative. I’m not sure why that is; perhaps it’s the many abuses of power I observed in my 15 years working in finance and consulting. One thing I know from the women’s forums I run is that most […]
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Posted on 09 September 2008. Tags: Family Motherhood and Home, Parenting, Supporting women worldwide, Women in Leadership
A couple of months ago I was participating in an interview with an academic from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management on the experiences of executive women. Kelvin, the interviewer, asked me whether as a woman leader, I’d experienced any social pressures or stereotypes that had impacted my decisions on parenting, work or both. Or […]
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Posted on 26 August 2008. Tags: Gender Balance, Media, News, Supporting women worldwide
Last week my favorite newspaper column featured a story of how one bank is tackling its gender imbalance at the top. A head of diversity and inclusion has been appointed and a forum for 300 of the bank’s executive women was convened to signal a commitment to change the bank’s gender profile. Sounds like good […]
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Posted on 19 August 2008. Tags: Best Practices, Career Management, Supporting women worldwide, Women in Leadership, working women
Last week I chaired a conference in Melbourne on advancing and retaining women in firm. Amongst the line up of speakers were members of the accounting, legal, engineering, automotive and banking sector, all of whom spoke about the programs and initiatives they are running to assist in promoting diversity and developing their female talent. The […]
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Posted on 06 August 2008. Tags: Women in Leadership, working women
Have you ever felt like you’re juggling so many things you can’t possibly be doing a good job of any of them? In the women’s forums I run for organisations and community groups, this theme emerges every time. Women talk about the challenges they face being the significant minority in their leadership team; of personal […]
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Posted on 21 July 2008. Tags: leadership, Management and Leadership, Tips, Women in Leadership
I was in Adelaide last week presenting to the CPA Women in Business network. Apart from the diverse backgrounds and interests of the participants, I was most impressed that on a cold winter’s evening (and trust me, it was COOOOLD in Adelaide!) more than 70 women turned out to network and interact with me in […]
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