Category: Leadership In Action

Australian scientist David Sinclair is co-director of the Paul F. Glenn Laboratories for the Molecular Biology of Ageing and a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School. His groundbreaking research has led to a discovery that once existed only in the realm of science fiction – a little pill that can slow the ageing process […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]