Category: Leadership Development

Gender equality at work is a serious issue for Julian Ford, head of the Solutions Engineering team at Salesforce. It is a part of the business that has traditionally had high proportion of men. Ford’s team started 2015 with 81 per cent males. In little over 12 months that proportion has dropped to 67 per […]

In 2014 a number of leading tech firms released the diversity mix of their employees. The companies that were redefining our world like Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, had a very old-world problem. Women were poorly represented in the important jobs (leadership) and the cool jobs (technology). Racial minorities fared even worse. Twelve months ago Eric […]

When Adam Arndell moved back to Tamworth after working in communications agencies in Sydney and Melbourne, he saw an enormous disconnect between metropolitan based organisations and the audiences they were trying to reach in the bush. When they come to speak to rural and regional audiences, he says, “it becomes a ‘tick-and-flick’ exercise, of book […]

How do start-ups fit in in the vision story? Is it arrogant or tempting fate to launch your humble innovation onto the market with grandiose claims of becoming the best, of changing minds, winning hearts and improving the world? Is it a risk to set your sights too high, too publicly when you are still […]

Louise Robinson is a CEO, a mother, and an Indigenous leader. As a leader, her aspirations are clear: “My aim is not to be the wealthiest CEO or to have the most toys. It’s to know I have changed one person’s life, and that that person goes on to change someone else’s life because I […]