We’ve just finished the end of the financial tax year in Australia. So what next to be truly ‘accountable’ for success in the future? Here are some thoughts to kick-start...

Last month, I was on a speaking tour in Asia, where it was great to catch up with my former IBM team in Japan. This prompted me to reflect how...

What are you doing to be the best of the best? This was a question I grappled with myself recently before the privilege of addressing an international team from Rolls-Royce....

Last week the Financial Review invited me to their 2 day top-tier business summit–possibly because it was on International Women’s Day and last year they included me in their Top...

Recently, I was honoured and humbled to be named in the Financial Review-Westpac’s ‘Top 100 Women of Influence in Australia.’  It seemed somewhat surreal since I first arrived with a...

1.  Swim between the red and yellow flags There’s a certain irony about following the rules and staying in a ‘safety zone’ of a career or conventional wisdom-OR venturing further...

Middle aged, middle class Australian woman shares pizza and opinions with young Middle Eastern men from Syria in Serbia As a middle aged, middle class Western woman, I don’t hang...

As Year of the Goat draws to a close, it seems like only yesterday I spent last Christmas in the Middle East, incuding a goat market…most suitable some may say. But...

How ironic to send Chinese Year of the Goat greetings from this livestock market in Oman. A few days earlier, I spoke at a conference in the sophisticated capital Muscat...