You don’t know me, Monika, but I feel like I’ve always known you. Or at least I’ve known that picture of you that the media had painted: the “tramp, tart, slut, whore, bimbo”. But now I realize, listening to this TED speech, that I never knew you at all. Now I realize how much my […]
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Monika I am so sorry: Sorry I didn’t stand up for you, and sorry for your pain
Posted on 27 March 2015.
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Leadership In Action: Knowing when to quit, to change or to start afresh
Posted on 25 September 2014.
Are you good at quitting? I’ve become a little obsessed with quitting this year. Because for far too long before that, I’d fallen into that trap of saying yes to everything. Yes, I could work that extra day. Yes, I could launch that new product line. Yes, I can take over that project that’s spiraling […]
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A gentle message on life, leadership and one wonderful woman
Posted on 09 September 2014.
Yesterday as I was driving across town from one appointment to another, busy as a bee, the Inner Circle came across the airwaves of my car radio. For a few short minutes I was transfixed by the quietly spoken message of Rev. Graham Long, Pastor and CEO of The Wayside Chapel in Sydney’s Kings Cross. […]
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Can confidence be learned just like any other skill, and do you need to?
Posted on 18 August 2014.
Would you describe yourself as a confident person? Is confidence something you think about in relation to your career? Or have you ever been encouraged to be just that bit more confident? One of the most frequent pieces of “advice” I’ve seen dished out to businesswomen is to be more confident. I’m not sure if […]
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To everything (turn turn turn) there is a season. What’s your season, right now?
Posted on 15 July 2014.
This song, originally by Pete Seeger and made famous by The Byrds, says it all. If you were a fan of Forest Gump you’ll remember the Byrds version from the movie, but my favorite version for its simplicity and honesty (think Joni Mitchell) is this one by Judy Collins from 1966: I know. It’s […]
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Please vote and forward to support the push for childcare reform via the Agenda Setter Award
Posted on 22 February 2013.
Three years ago on International Women’s Day I launched the Make Care Fair alliance with the goal of getting policy makers to seriously rethink childcare and readjust policies, systems and those all important places across Australia to better serve the…
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