Category: Leadership Matters

On the job I manage a team of 11. I’m responsible for HR functions, such as recruitment, industrial relations, performance management, plus ICT responsibilities and administration requirements, like insurance, procurement, purchasing and even events managements and fundraising. It can be hard to juggle each responsibility, so excellent time management and organisational skills are essential. Career progression […]

Joining a start-up can be a career gamble, but Kate Vale has hit the jackpot twice. She was the first employee in Australia for both Google in 2002 and the online music streaming service Spotify in 2011. Google is now an online advertising powerhouse, but it was a different story when Vale joined. In 2002 […]

1. On the job Darwin Symphony Orchestra is a fairly large not-for-profit – we turn over more than a million dollars a year. There are four paid staff and the rest of us are ‘freebies’. There are about 70-100 volunteers. The board sets all of the governance, we look at the finances and figure out […]

1. On the job We’re involved in the preparation for travel. If you’re going on a holiday to Brazil, for example, you’ll require vaccines, perhaps medication to take with you, a travel kit and information to ensure you remain healthy overseas. The challenge is in delivering something that’s clinically appropriate and of great value within […]

Gold Medal Paralympian Chris Bond has learned a lot about leadership and overcoming adversity since he met AIM CEO David Pich, thenhead of marketing at CanTeen, a charity that supports young people with cancer. At the time, Bond was a 22-year-old member of the board. At 19, Bond became ill with a rare form of […]

1. On the job My role encompasses tables, slots and poker operations at The Venetian and The Palazzo properties, as well as domestic marketing, CRM and loyalty, casino credit and casino administration, so it’s fairly broad in its scope. A large part of what I do is to help shape the business and people strategies for […]

Patrick Houlihan, managing director of leading paint company DuluxGroup, is standing in the Dulux Innovation Centre at the company’s head office in Clayton, describing a latex polymer resin that allows the company’s colourful products to stick to walls. For some people, this subject is akin to watching paint dry. But Houlihan can’t get enough of […]

Chris Bond OAM is a senior member of the champion wheelchair rugby team that won a gold medal for Australia at the London 2012 Paralympics. The subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary Murderball, wheelchair rugby is a fast and furious game that is played very often by severely disabled men and women. Each team is allowed up […]

Carolyn Taylor is an expert in leadership and workplace culture. Her book, Walking the Talk (Random House), is “a must read for any manager embarking on the journey of cultural change”, according to Professor Lynda Gratton of the London Business School. In Australia, her early clients included the chief executives of Telstra, Westpac and Rio Tinto. After […]