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...

1. Check more than one source…Luckily I checked with a friend in Athens and was able to enjoy an amazing time in a great country. 2. Sensationalism sells but sustainability...

Until this conference, I felt that twitter only frittered time that could be better spent writing; that a blog would bog me down from penning the next great literary masterpiece...

Life is so random.  When you go climbing, you assess and accept the risk-but for thousands of Nepalese families going about daily life-they could never have anticipated such devastation. As...

Whale sharks have over 300 rows of teeth to filter plankton and krill-but are harmless to us humans-who sometimes need to filter information in our busy-ness of business. When in...

What can I possibly add to the topic of transformation? I settle on the somewhat risqué title: ‘Shif t Happens’; although Australians often omit the ‘f.’ Let’s face it-life isn’t...