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Tracey Hodgkins
CEO Australian Experiential Learning Centre Pty Ltd
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Roll up, roll up. It’s International Women’s day! Come and buy a ticket to an event and enter a tick on the equal opportunity report. Lip service guaranteed!
Sound a little sceptical? Well heck yeh! What are we celebrating? The number of women on boards has actually declined in Australia this year, there are less than 3% of women who are CEOs of the top 200 ASX listed companies. Wome
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Larke Riemer
Head of Women’s Markets, Westpac
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I’ve been sitting in planes on tarmacs a lot lately. It’s the weather – storm delays, sometimes of up to more than an hour. It makes it so hard to manage schedules. I know it’s no-one’s fault, it’s just extraneous circumstances but I feel I’ve lost control.
So, how do we plan for life’s little hiccups? I understand you can’t do it as successfully when it comes to one-off events but when you can
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Louise Upton
Upton Communications & Consulting
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My very cluey brother said to me: when your heart’s no longer in it, it’s time to kiss it goodbye. That may be true. But to achieve that goodbye kiss, be it in a relationship, changing jobs, moving house, retirement, death, you need financial independence.
I know many women don’t have enough in reserve to make that kiss happen. In fact, this state of affairs has been the case for such a very lon
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Jo Garnett
JVG Events
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Being a history degree major, I’ve always been interested in the role women have played in shaping important medical, political, economic and social development during the past.
So for this blog, I thought I’d share with you some women who have influenced and impacted on the modern day woman, perhaps without you even knowing…
Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman awarded the M.D. degree. Eli
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Eve Ash
Seven Dimensions Pty Ltd, Founder and CEO
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At 3am on a hot Saturday morning I watched the Tiger Woods apologise to a global audience – live!
Why?
A. Because I am a keen golfer?
B. Because I love Tiger Woods?
C. I was intrigued by his infidelity?
I played golf for about 3 years until my golf clubs were stolen, then took the opportunity to stop trying. It was a great disappointment that I did
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Renata Singer
Co-Founder & Director, Fitted for Work
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This is a true story with names changed so I don’t get sued.
It starts with me needing to get some money moved from my English bank account to a friend’s English account. No big deal - you’d think.
This bank says, “96% of our customers would recommend our service to a friend.” I’m definitely in the other 4% and guess what - I reckon this claim is hooey and that they must have sur
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Tania de Jong AM
Founder, MTA; Pot-Pourri; and The Song Room
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Creativity encourages innovation and innovation plays a vital role in the development of new business concepts, processes and products. Innovation drives growth and opportunity in new markets and breathes life into a mature industry.
Once considered just in the areas of science and advertising, creativity and innovation now play an important role in all levels and departments of a business. Exec
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Shirley Anne Fortina
The POD Consultancy
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Let’s stop, think and take action…. To truly shine we all need to take ownership of our lives. Whether you are self employed, work for an organisation or even unemployed we need to be able to state “This is my life!” For many of us our lives and our happiness is determined by the subtle and not so subtle expectations of others.
We all would have experienced this at some stage going ba
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Sharon Tieman
Madame Marketing
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“If you only ever sugar coat the truth, you’ll just make people fat between the ears”
Ouch! That one hurts. But it’s true. How often have we reflected on what someone has told us and just wished they didn’t beat around the bush? Ok, the initial pain of the truth hurts, but it is usually only short term and then we can move on and deal with it.
I’m not talking about nasty per
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Julia Newton-Howes
CEO Care Australia
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The last time that I wrote a Ruby blog, it was about the importance of managing stress and burn-out in an intense work environment.
That was in October, and I was referring to CARE’s response to Typhoon Ketsana, which devastated areas of Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and the Philippines.
Now, sadly, we find ourselves in a similar position, responding to one of the worst natural disast
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