News & Views EnergyAustralia Board goes 50% female with two new appointments The board of EnergyAustralia is now gender balanced, following the appointments of Marina Go and Rebecca Dee-Bradbury as non-executive directors.
News & Views The AFL gets its first female club CEO, finally 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.
Entrepreneurs ‘People thought I was delusional’: How this solo parent found flexibility by launching a major handbag business The thought of starting a new business to find flexibility as a single mother is enough to make even the boldest woman sweat.
Business Say goodbye to another female CEO: Deborah Thomas replaced as head of Ardent Leisure 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.
Appointments Julia Gillard appointed chair of BeyondBlue Former Prime Minister Julia Gillard appointed chair of BeyondBlue to succeed Jeff Kennett from the 1st of July 2017. She is “delighted”.
News & Views June Oscar becomes first Indigenous Woman appointed to Human Rights watchdog 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.
Appointments A tale of three bold women blazing a trail: Dr Anne Aly, Emma Husar & Ellen DeGeneres Three women made headlines yesterday; each of them trailblazers, each in the spotlight talking openly about the shackles that could have stifled them.
Appointments Finally, a woman to head up the Department of Foreign Affairs Frances Adamson was yesterday named by Malcolm Turnbull as our first female secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Appointments How one woman became CEO after asking for a job that didn’t exist 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.
Appointments Centuria board gets first female director Google’s head of Performance Susan Wheeldon-Steele has been appointed to the board of Centuria Capital (CNI), becoming the first female director to sit on the board of the ASX-listed specialist investment manager board.
Appointments Catherine Livingstone appointed Commonwealth Bank chairman Australia will soon see another woman chairing one of our largest organisations, with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia today announcing Catherine Livingstone as its new chairman from early 2017.
Appointments AICD board now 50% female with new appointment Nicola Wakefield Evans has been appointed to the national board of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, which will see the 12-person board go 50% female for the first time.
