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6 success tips for women in the male-dominated meat industry
Learn how to find your place and hit your stride in the male-dominated meat industry. Read Joanna Williams’s story to find out more.
Pregnant and about to start a new job? What’s next?
Does finding out you’re pregnant during a job application process mean you have to step down? Angeles Miranda’s shares her own experience at Ampol.
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Talking menopause in the workplace
As Chair of Southeastern’s Women in Rail Empowerment (WIRE) group, Natalie has spearheaded an initiative to raise awareness of menopause symptoms and provide greater support for employees impacted. She discusses what has been implemented, her learnings and why it’s so...
The shift from worker bee to leading large teams
Once upon a time, Tracy Nichols was content with being a hard-working individual contributor. She now oversees a team of 48 people as Woolworths Group’s State Facilities Management (FM) Manager for NSW, and gets a “great buzz” from leading people and helping them...
Return to Work Programs
Return to Work Programs are designed to support professionals returning to work after extended leave, often parental leave. In Australia, we know it’s still largely women who take extended leave from work for caring reasons, with 95% of primary parental leave taken by...
Challenging perceptions as a woman freight train driver
Heather Waugh can think of few jobs that will give you more pride than driving a freight train, being responsible for a 2000 ton, ¾-of-a-mile-long vehicle. And despite being the only woman freight train driver in Scotland, she believes there’s no reason for women to...
How to Grow Your Career When The Unexpected Occurs
It’s not often that a woman moves across the country to support her partner’s career and also has an amazing career story herself, but Natasha (Tash) Robb is nothing but a success. She shares an inspiring story of career progression through pregnancy, children and...
A career opportunist talks leadership and flexible working
Now Senior Vice President of Customer Experience at Abcam, Yvonne shares her advice for women with leadership aspirations, why diversity in teams is so important and how to make flexible working a success at an executive level. Finding career fulfillment Career...
13 years and counting: Why Sara considers ESV her work family
"Sara Hansen first joined Energy Safe Victoria (ESV) in 2007. Back then, she was a 20-something keen to travel the world. Since then, she’s gotten married and started a family. She shares how ESV has supported her throughout every step of that journey and why it’s a...
Episode Ten: True Flexibility, the Juggle and Boundaries
Vivienne Partridge has worked in Advertising and marketing for 21 years and is now the Associate Director of Strategy and Planning at Optus. With a strong interest in continued education she’s attained a Masters degree, and four other industry and post grad...
Creating Value Through Culture
Simon Eid is the Group Vice President, Australia & New Zealand of Splunk, the world’s first Data-to-Everything Platform. He is inspiringly passionate about the culture they’ve created and believes “the reason we’ve succeeded is we live and breathe our culture.”...