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From a playground sandpit to an open pit mine – BHP
Karen Hogan’s career change is the perfect example to show anything is...
Finding the way in rail – Alstom
Travel provides many valuable lessons, and Bahar Kizilirmak appreciates...
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Men have it tough too…wait, what?
As awareness of diversity and inclusion gains momentum and many of us are taking an active role in spreading the word, it’s worth taking time to pause and reflect on what we are trying to achieve. Seeking to improve gender equality by championing the cause means we...
One simple tip to stay focused…
By Gemma Lloyd I heard a great analogy once, it went something like: “Focus is like sunlight shining down onto earth, it’s dispersed and keeps everything nice and warm. If you concentrate that light through a magnifying glass and hold it up against the black of a...
Diversity: what’s the point?
"You don’t need to talk to me about diversity, seven out of eight people in my team are women already." I caught up with a friend of mine recently who is the Head of Diversity and Inclusion at a major, ASX listed company. During our discussion she mentioned the...
The heroes and heroines of workplace diversity
As TEDWomen 2015 launches this week, we celebrate how far society has come. We no longer exclude women from attending university or joining certain professions. We don’t make our citizens sit in different sections of the bus because of their race, or limit their...
How to build a more gender diverse pipeline entering the IT industry
Last week, I was very excited to co-host the first Diversity Roundtable on behalf of FITT, alongside Victoria Keeys, Senior Manager of Culture and Diversity at CBA. The topic for the morning was “How to build a more gender diverse pipeline entering the IT industry”....
How I get it all done – passion and productivity
I’ve been asked a lot lately how I manage to get so much done in a day. For those of you that don’t know me, I have taken on a lot. Not including keeping up with family and social activities, I’m currently involved with the following: Co-founded a company called...
Origin Energy leading the way in gender diversity across the Energy industry in Australia
This article originally appeared in the Brisbane times. Energy companies are failing to take action on gender diversity, an index measuring their progress shows, and Origin Energy is the only Australian company to be ranked as pulling its weight among the top...
Top companies with women on boards perform better, research finds
This article originally appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald. Top Australian companies with at least 25 per cent female boards perform more than 7 per cent better than those with all-male boards, according to research that will boost the push to improve corporate...
Gender Diversity: Quotas vs Targets
In the world of diversity and inclusion, particularly when it comes to gender diversity, the debate over quotas vs targets is a hot one. It tends to polarize the protagonists with no-one feeling ambivalent about it. Mostly, the debate is emotionally-based with fear...