Category: Leadership In Action

Recruiting people from diverse backgrounds, with ideas that question the status quo, can change an organisation for the better. Leading and sustaining a successful and ethical business can be a complex game. For some people, it is made all the more (seemingly) complex by bringing together individuals with different backgrounds and perspectives. However, we now know […]

One senior ANZ trader, who was dismissed following an internal investigation, filed an unfair dismissal claim against the bank claiming that he was forced to behave badly because of the bank’s abysmal corporate culture. (Another trader has also filed a separate suit.) The claim alleges that the bank itself created, supported and encouraged a toxic […]

The next time you consider squashing an ant, spare a thought for Tanya Latty. An entomologist with a special interest in insect behaviour and ecology, Latty spends the bulk of her days studying how these tiny organisms band together to solve complex problems. A postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Sydney, Latty grew up […]

One of the Western Sydney Wanderers first recruits was Shannon Cole, who made the brave decision to sign with the new A-League team after being released by his former club, Sydney FC. It was mid-2012 and these were supposed to be the glory days for Australian footballers. People were still basking in the afterglow of […]

BILL BARKER With two deaths in the snow-laden Australian high country, another two within resort bounds and several other close calls, was it good luck or good management that Mt Hotham avoided casualites or a serious incident during the 2014 ski season? Perhaps a bit of both; but it certainly helps when you have a man like Bill […]

Kaitlyn Akers FAIM knows how important teamwork is when the mission is to save a life. A volunteer lifesaver at Mudjimba Beach on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, she helped rescue an unconscious man from the water in 2014. “What struck me that day was the communication between all of us. We had all been trained to a level that we […]

Would you pay to see your boss jump out of a plane? Stephanie Lorenzo AIMe is counting on it. As the founder and chief executive of Project Futures, a not-for-profit organisation devoted to ending slavery and human trafficking in Cambodia and Australia, her high-energy approach to fundraising is paying dividends. Around the world, an estimated […]

Dawna Wright is a good person to have on side in a crisis. Her CV details a decade as an expert witness in fraud and litigation cases and 20 years as a forensic accounting specialist delving underneath the accounts for the numbers that count in tricky disputes. I am quite a competitive person generally so […]

AFL matches are the fourth largest attended events in world sport and the grand final is the grand-daddy of each year’s fixtures. But how many people does it take to make it happen?