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The 7000km journey to senior leadership
The path may not have been a traditional one, but Abimbola has found her distinctive background has helped her on her way to becoming a senior leader at PMI.
The leader wiring change for women in electrical engineering
As a woman in both leadership and electrical engineering, Niki Jackson is ‘wired’ for change. Discover the ways she’s supporting gender diversity.
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Diversity and Inclusion within Companies and Teams Do Drive High Performance
Subscribe to our fortnightly Women at Work newsletter to get inspiring stories, career building resources and exclusive network invites delivered to your inbox. “Being a minority in any situation can be challenging, it can feel lonely”. Kelly Becker, Country President...
Flexible Work and Finding Your Purpose
Robert Lloyd wanted a sea change after 26 years as a paramedic, joined WORK180 as part of its founding team as the Operations Manager and has never looked back. Since then, Robert’s role has grown to a variety of responsibilities and he particularly loves having a...
Parental leave… it’s not just for mums!
At RACQ we are lucky to have had paid Parental leave for over a decade. Until recently, we’ve had a relatively low take up from dad’s utilising the option, but that is something that we hope to see change into the future. Our Parental Leave Policy applies to all...
Working Remotely (and how)
I work remotely and have been full time for over 6 months now and I wanted to take some time to talk about my experience with it. I quite often joke about this, for example the above image is from a post from my Instagram after my 2nd week working at WORK180, which...
Learning to Lead and Banking Career Highlights
Vanessa Wewer started her career with an exciting secondment to Thailand to work on the international airport and has spent the last 20 years achieving new career highlights, learning to lead and building a family. How to Have A Career of Highlights As we were...
Announcing a New Purpose: To Empower Every Woman to Choose a Workplace Where They Can Thrive
Where it all began When I co-founded WORK180 in February 2015, I saw a broken job process, especially for women*. After the years I spent working in the IT sector, I had first-hand experience of both the employers who were committed to supporting everyone (where I...
Working Cold Cases in the Queensland Police Service
Everything I know about cold case investigation, I know from TV, but it turns out TV doesn’t show you what it’s like at all! Tara Kentwell is a Detective Senior Sergeant in the Cold Case Investigation Team, Homicide Investigation Unit for the Queensland Police Service...
How to Support Women at all Stages of their Employee Experience
We all know by now the compelling reasons why equal representation of gender in leadership is so important, and how slow that progress to change can be. Women are still woefully underrepresented in leadership, with only 13.7% holding chair positions, and only 17.1% in...
Working in operations: Career advice from women to women
It might be a traditionally male-dominated field, but more and more women are carving out successful careers in operational industries. We spoke to 14 women smashing career goals in the operations sector and asked them to share their advice for women looking to get...