Category: Leadership In Action

CHRISTIAN HORNER Christian Horner is team principal of powerhouse Formula 1 (F1) team, Infiniti Red Bull Racing (IRBR), one of the wealthiest and most successful of the last decade, and it competes in a sport that generates more than US$1.5 billion ($1.95 billion) annually. IRBR has won 50 grands prix, four World Constructors’ Championships and […]

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 […]

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 […]

When Kirsty Whyte chucked in her day job to go sailing for a year, it wasn’t so she could kick around the Whitsundays or Croatian coast. Instead she paid to be an amateur crew member on board the Spirit of Australia in the Clipper Round the World Yacht race. An event that pairs a professional […]

Although the bid was officially launched back in 2008 by then Queensland premier Anna Bligh, the really intense work was during the bid period of 2010-2011. It required the coordination of thousands of people from government, sporting bodies, the hospitality industry, primary schools and the general public. Here’s how many people were behind the successful […]

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?

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 […]

Workplace diversity is a hot topic. Learn the stories of emerging indigenous leader Carly O’Brien, leadership coach and gay rights advocate Harold Hilman, and advocate for the deaf Drisana Levitzke-Gray. BY CAMERON COOPER   CARLY O’BRIEN AIMM, RELATIONSHIP BUILDER Carly O’Brien “For me, it’s really comforting to know that there is a genuine interest in […]

Haigh’s produces about two million chocolate frogs a year at its Mile End factory in South Australia. It takes one person to eat a Haigh’s Superfrog, but how many people are involved in making it?   Haigh’s Chocolates has been making tasty chocolate frogs in various sizes since the 1930s. From the forklift driver who […]