Category: Leadership Matters

Glenn Keys wins Community Leader of the Year for his work developing a ground-breaking new housing model for people with intellectual disabilities.   Glenn Keys is the co-founder and co-executive chair of Aspen Medical, one of the world’s leading providers of outsourced healthcare solutions and the only company in the world to be contracted by […]

November 8, 2016 will be remembered as the historic day Donald Trump was announced as president-elect of the United States. Trump won the election despite opposition from the majority of the international community, the incumbent U.S. president and the Clinton campaign. Now, I could write of my frustration at how someone with no political experience is now […]

Ted Talks Understanding the rise of China, Martin Jacques Martin Jacques asks: How do we in the West make sense of China and its phenomenal rise? The author of “When China Rules the World,” he examines why the West often puzzles over the growing power of the Chinese economy, and offers three building blocks for understanding […]

Mental health in the workplace is one of the most challenging issues leaders and managers face.. Overlooked for years, it is now widely acknowledged that mental illness can have a huge impact on productivity, to the tune of $10 billion a year. In the lead-up Mental Health Week 2016, Leadership Matters quizzed Nick Arvanitis, Head […]

When Gartner Research compared the career progress of 1,000 or so employees at Sun Microsystems who had taken part in a mentoring program with those who had not, it uncovered some interesting results. About 25 per cent of the employees involved in a mentoring program had advanced a salary grade over the five-year period of the study, […]

Dr Christopher Clarke AFAIM, manager of corporate safety at Melbourne Water, was inspired to push his career envelope by mentor Ron Skaff FAIM, an organisational change practitioner and director at Forma & Associates. They began meeting in Melbourne at the beginning of the year. Why did you join AIM’s mentor program? Christopher Clarke: I joined […]

In our increasingly connected world, global excellence emerges from the most surprising locations. Take Attica restaurant, for example. This award-winning eatery is located not in some gastronomic hotspot – Paris, London, New York or even Las Vegas – but on a small shopping strip in the sleepy Melbourne suburb of Ripponlea. In June this year, Attica was […]

When Jack Andraka was 14 years old, a close family friend died from pancreatic cancer. Andraka, now 19, didn’t even know what a pancreas was back then. Armed with what he describes as “teenage optimism”, he became determined to discover all he could about the disease that had taken the life of a person he […]

Mental health conditions are more common than many people think. Depression affects one in six, and anxiety one in four, Australians in their lifetime, so if you haven’t experienced mental illness at some point in your life, it’s guaranteed that someone you know has. A 2014 PwC report found that mental health conditions cost Australian […]