Helping you visualize the conference so far

First cab off the rank this morning was Theresa Gattung who is the Chair of AIA Australia. She is the former CEO of Telecom and was the first female CEO of a publicly listed NZ company when she commenced in this role. In 2006, she made Forbes list of the world’s most powerful women. Recently I blogged about the message we were sending to young girls after seeing a...

Next up today, I’d like to share with you a talk from Dr Eileen Doyle. She is the Chairman of the Hunter Valley Research Foundation, and is a Director of Boral Ltd, Hunter Founders Forum, GPT Ltd and the CSIRO (My former haunt!). She has an amazing resume which you can check out here. Dr Eileen Doyle was here to talk to us about the nuts and bolts of directorship,...

I feel like I am learning a lot about gender at work at the moment. I mentioned after International Women’s Day that I wasn’t entirely comfortable with the message that we were sending to young women that: you might think you’re equal – but mate you’re not, you earn less; you earn less per hour; you earn less over your lifetime; you do a heap of...

A little while back, the fabulous @Jentally (aka Jenny Roberts) approached me via twitter with an opportunity to be on the Advisory Board for their business; Perform HR which provides access to managed HR Services, HR mentoring for new or stand alone HR Managers/new appointed HR Directors and also helps businesses complete HR Projects. At that time Jenny introduced...