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How Fitness is Fueling Community at AngloGold Ashanti
Employees are benefitting from AngloGold Ashanti’s human-scale approach to working arrangements to FIFO roles.
How women are smashing the glass ceiling in Australia’s energy sector
Three women in leadership at APA share how they’re breaking barriers and driving gender equity in Australia’s energy sector.
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Want to be a leader? Check out 5 tips from an Amex Director
If you’re aspiring to be an effective leader, there are several qualities you’ll want to focus on – courage, respect, and empathy are at the top of the list. It’s easy to see the value of these attributes, but developing and exemplifying them takes work. We spoke with...
‘One day, we’ll all work together at CSL’ how this mom’s prophecy came true
You often read about workplaces that ‘feel like family’, but for one mother and her two daughters, it’s more than a marketing metaphor! We spoke with sisters Nina Djordjevich and Anja Kozulin who’ve worked at science and bio-technology company CSL for six and ten...
Empowering Women in Tech: The Role of Graduate Programs in Australia
In the fast-paced world of technology, innovation knows no bounds. Yet, when it comes to gender diversity, the tech sector has been grappling with a persistent challenge: the underrepresentation of women. In Australia, as across the globe, organizations are waking up...
How neurodiversity can be an advantage in your workplace
“If you have met one person who is autistic*, then you have only met one person. That is because the way autism presents and impacts a person is very individual and is exactly why it’s called a spectrum disorder. Kathy Ivkovic, Model Risk Manager at Bendigo and...
How this property company makes everyone feel at home
Being in real estate is all about dreams. Sure, it may be other people's dreams, but you get to contribute to the long-term aspirations of people and organizations by helping them find a new place to call home or a pathway to new adventures. Sounds fun, right? It is....
Where else can you create a thriving career with a law degree?
After graduating as a lawyer, Sally Watts might have been expected to end up, well, in law. But not every legal professional needs to spend their time in courts or in working through multiple legal cases. For Sally, working for Freightliner has provided a legal career...
The 7000km journey to senior leadership
It’s a little over 7000km from Lagos to London. Somewhere in that vast space, Abimbola Nibson-Niboro crossed over from being a hopeful criminal defence lawyer to being the Ethics & Compliance Head at Philip Morris Limited UK (PML). PML is the UK affiliate of...
The leader wiring change for women in electrical engineering
Engineering has a long history of being a male-dominated profession. In several disciplines, there’s been great progress in improving gender diversity. In others, according to research from Engineers Australia, the numbers haven’t changed much in decades. But there...
How this entrepreneur helped co-found a software company that remains true to its values and employees
While the world has made great strides toward gender equity in the workforce in the last few decades, it is no secret that there is still a fair way to go. Women remain underrepresented in the C-suite and executive branches, especially within the tech and software...