Appointments

Bakers Delight is a business built on little decisions, where a simple choice about hot cross bun flavours can be make or break.

Sue Kench has been appointed as the Global Managing Partner for King & Wood Mallesons, stepping up from her current position as Chief Executive Partner Australia.

Dr Anne Summers AO once refused to turn up to her graduation ceremony.

The board of EnergyAustralia is now gender balanced, following the appointments of Marina Go and Rebecca Dee-Bradbury as non-executive directors.

Hawthorn has today announced Tracey Gaudry will be its next chief executive, marking the first time an AFL club has ever had a woman leading at the top.

The thought of starting a new business to find flexibility as a single mother is enough to make even the boldest woman sweat.

The ASX 200 will soon have one less female CEO, after Dreamworld’s parent company Ardent Leisure Group announced major leadership changes this morning, including the replacement of Deborah Thomas as CEO.

Former Prime Minister Julia Gillard appointed chair of BeyondBlue to succeed Jeff Kennett from the 1st of July 2017. She is “delighted”.

June Oscar has this week been named Australia’s new Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, becoming the first Indigenous woman appointed to the Australian Human Rights Commission.

Three women made headlines yesterday; each of them trailblazers, each in the spotlight talking openly about the shackles that could have stifled them.

Frances Adamson was yesterday named by Malcolm Turnbull as our first female secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

If you need further proof that tenacity gets you to the top, consider this: Karen Lawson’s just been appointed CEO of Slingshot, a role that didn’t exist until she picked up the phone to the incubator’s two co-founders and said she wanted to run the business.