by Fiona 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 Fiona 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 Fiona 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,...
by Fiona Byarugaba | Apr 9, 2026 | Employee stories inspiration, Representative leadership
At Powerlink, the Accelerate Women in Leadership program has been helping women across the organisation do exactly that since 2019. Designed to address the underrepresentation of women in leadership roles, particularly in technical and operational environments, the...
by Fiona Byarugaba | Mar 31, 2026 | Leadership & development
Starting a career is rarely a straight line. You arrive with knowledge, curiosity and ambition, but the direction often becomes clear only once you begin. The Graduate Program at nbn is designed for exactly that moment. Over two years, graduates complete four...
