Angela Priestley

Ignoring negative ‘feedback’ on Twitter must be easy for women who are used to the spotlight, right? Not always, according to those who participated in our roundtable luncheon Wednesday, to officially kick off our #PositionOfStrength campaign with Twitter, empowering women to raise their voices online.

Structural biology professor Dr Jennifer Martin grew up with eight siblings in Melbourne’s Dandenong, before pursuing an international science career that took her as far as becoming a postdoctoral scientist at Rockefeller University in Manhattan.

Sarah Turner gets up at 4:50am every day to cycle in the dark, before getting the kids ready for daycare and school, and heading to her job as General Counsel of EBOS Group.

Nikki Jurcutz believes her former career as a paramedic has taught her things about leadership an MBA could never offer.

The number of entities with zero female directors significantly increases outside of the largest 100 companies listed on the stock exchange, with 81 organisations in the ASX 300 currently lacking a single women on their boards.

Anita Mitchell remembers the day she was forced to step out of her comfort zone: when a key leader left a business she was working in, the CEO asked her to take over his portfolio.

Every day, Australian women contribute the majority of the routine housework in Australia.

“Nothing comes to mind” was the anonymous response of one of Australia’s most influential managing partners when asked about the one thing they would change about the legal profession.

The setting felt a little off for an address on the subject of poverty from Bob Geldof.

Deborah Harrigan was a single parent with a five-year-old when she moved to Malaysia to take one of the most significant positions of her career.

If you want to meet a well connected and influential board director, approach a woman.

Even in horrible weather, business goes on.