Category: New In Leadership

Internships are an increasingly popular pathway taken by university students eager to jump into a job when they graduate. These highly sought-after positions are where Australia’s next generation of skilled workers are shown the ropes by professionals across a range of industries. Communications graduate Cabrini Broderick learned the value of internships after dismal job-hunting results. […]

Dominic May, a business student at the University of Newcastle, is the winner of the IML Leadership Excellence Awards 2016 Student Leader of the Year. Dominic May is a third-year student at the University of Newcastle, where he is studying a combined Bachelor of Business/Bachelor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Tourism Management/Leadership and Management). He is […]

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 […]

Lucy O’Flaherty wins the AIM Leadership Excellence Award for Not for Profit Leader of the Year for her work in the aged care sector in Tasmania.   Lucy O’Flaherty’s career in community services began more than 20 years ago, encompassing roles from practitioner to executive, and leading to her current role as chief executive of Glenview. […]

Organisational psychologist and Revelian CEO Cherie Curtis wins Leader/Manager of the Year at IML’s 27th annual Leadership Excellence Awards (ALEAs). Cherie Curtis started working with people analytics company Revelian as an intern while she was completing her Master in Organisational Psychology. She fell in love with the way the company was pioneering the online assessment […]

The presidency of the United States represents the pinnacle of global leadership. As leader of a global superpower and commander-in-chief of the military, American presidents have had a controlling hand in world affairs since George Washington first took office in 1789. Since then they have presided over the most defining moments in modern history, from […]

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 […]

Blockchain technology started life as the key technical innovation of Bitcoin and now it may transform the financial services sector and beyond. What is blockchain? Blockchain technology provides indisputable proof of transactions. It’s like a network of databases that act as a shared digital ledger. Each transaction is recorded as a “block”. With new transactions, […]

Winners were announced in six categories at the 2016 among IML Leadership Excellence Awards ceremony in Brisbane on October 19. By Jacqueline Blondell Leaders from right across the country were celebrated at IML’s 27th annual Leadership Excellence Awards (ALEAs) national final, held in Brisbane on 19 October. David Pich, IML chief executive and master of […]