by Fiond Byarugaba | Apr 22, 2026 | Leadership & development
A career built on confidence, care and community Every morning, thousands of Melburnians step onto a tram and trust that it will arrive safely, on time and with care. Behind that trust is a network of people who take their work seriously, including the leaders who...
by Fiond Byarugaba | Apr 21, 2026 | Leadership & development
At 19, Monique Ferguson stepped onto a FIFO flight with no long-term plan and no roadmap. Before that, she had been living in Bali, working different jobs and collecting life experiences. Stability felt distant. Direction felt unclear. Then she met people working in...
by Fiond Byarugaba | Apr 14, 2026 | Leadership & development, Policies & support
Ambition often gets the spotlight, but what sustains a career is something quieter. Support. For Shani Herat Gunaratne, that kind of support is not unusual. It is part of how her team shows up every day at Port of Newcastle. It is also what gave her the confidence to...
by Fiond Byarugaba | Apr 13, 2026 | Leadership & development
You do your research before accepting a job offer. You check the culture. You look at who’s in the room. You notice, quietly, whether anyone who looks like you is leading anything. That instinct is good. Trust it. And use it. Because the difference between an...
by Fiond Byarugaba | Apr 13, 2026 | Leadership & development
Melissa Trapani wasn’t trained to build railways. She was trained to understand how molten metal moves through a furnace. With a PhD in chemical engineering focused on industrial tapholes, she began her career at Olympic Dam in South Australia. As a FIFO metallurgist,...
