Category: Leadership Development

Susan King is the sole proprietor of Susan King Consulting. Kate Goodman is Executive Manager for TheBumpWA. Paired together in IML’s WA’s mentoring program, they reveal the fruits of their six-month relationship. Tell us a little bit about your job and career background Susan King: My career has been rather serendipitous and varied in nature, involving an unusual mix […]

Companies are surprisingly similar in what they claim to be their values, culture and execution, but there is a lot more variation in what actually happens at the coalface. Leaders have a crucial role in determining how well their organisations ‘walk the talk’ through their own conduct and the way they respond to others. Most […]

When Duncan Barker IML was in the early days of launching his own real estate business, Office Discovery, he was grateful to have his mentor, Southern Cross Coaching and Development CEO Simon Smith FIML, by his side. Both work in Sydney. Why did you join FILM mentor program? DB: I was referred by a friend […]

If your ultimate career goal is a leadership role like a CEO spot and/or a position on the company board, you had better get busy. No-one gets to the top of their game by chance. It requires hard work, a lot of passion, good strategic planning, a valuable network of contacts and a willingness to […]

By Susan Muldowney, Photography by Richard Whitfield Leadership Matters sat down with Chintan Gandhi, to find out the secret to his success as a young leader. 1. On the job I head up a team of account managers and marketing executives. In the past two years we’ve acquired three companies and I played a key role […]

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 […]

Failure rates for corporate change are high. Some statistics suggest they are as high as 70 per cent. What are the mistakes that too many change leaders continue to make? 1. Misdiagnosing scope Who will be affected, how much it will cost, how long it will take and how radical does a change need to […]

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 […]