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Do you love your job? Do you like the way you work? Do you have the ability to manage your work and life commitments? If you answered yes to that, I celebrate you and the actions you have taken to get there. You and I both know that all of the pieces of the puzzle of...
Emily Duggan, Racing Car Driver
When Emily Duggan, Australian Racing Car Driver was preparing for her first race in 2014, to compete against an all male field, she called the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport (CAMS) to check with officials whether it was within the rules to allow a woman to...
Striking the right balance
In 2016, BHP set a bold aspirational goal to achieve gender balance by 2025. In the two years since we announced this aspirational goal, the action, debate and innovation it originally sparked has intensified across our company and within the industry. These forces...
Be the change you want to see in your business
Diversity is being invited to the party, inclusion is being asked to dance. It’s with this note from Verna Myers in mind that Bindy Edelman approaches her role as global head of diversity and inclusion at cloud accounting software company Xero. It comes after years...
No timesheets. No 6-minute increments. How this Law Firm is Challenging its Own Profession
Buckminster Fuller once said “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete”. Building a new legal model is exactly what Construction and Infrastructure lawyer Janelle Kerrisk...
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