Category: Professional Development

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 […]

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 […]

When Adam Arndell moved back to Tamworth after working in communications agencies in Sydney and Melbourne, he saw an enormous disconnect between metropolitan based organisations and the audiences they were trying to reach in the bush. When they come to speak to rural and regional audiences, he says, “it becomes a ‘tick-and-flick’ exercise, of book […]

How do start-ups fit in in the vision story? Is it arrogant or tempting fate to launch your humble innovation onto the market with grandiose claims of becoming the best, of changing minds, winning hearts and improving the world? Is it a risk to set your sights too high, too publicly when you are still […]