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When Lara Poloni joined AECOM 22 years ago, there were only two other women in the office of 120 people: one was an engineer, the other a ‘tea lady’.

Anyone can be a world-leading entrepreneur, according to “hacker, entrepreneur and investor” Susan Wu,  Wu, who has worked with tech giants like Twitter, Square and Reddit, and is the founder of Ohai, FreeAgent.

The world knows about Michelle Bridges’s fortune – the fitness star entered BRW’s rich women list in 2015 with a net worth of $53 million – but her success is a product of decades of work both on and off camera.

Susan Harris Rimmer is helping to set a new agenda for women across the world.

Are entrepreneurs born or are they made?  A bit of both, if the entrepreneurship panels at Women World Changers is anything to go by.

When Melinda Gates entered the tech industry, the world was very different to what it looks like today.

During digital strategist Rahaf Harfoush’s first trip to Australia, she did some media appearances and discussed her experience as a full-time volunteer for the digital strategy team on Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign.

It’s Ok to fire a mentor, according to one of Australia’s most influential women in tech, Dell ANZ Managing Director and Senior Vice President Angela Fox.

Have you ever had to really fight that desire to give up? To push yourself to get to an outcome? Or conversely, have you become so obsessed by getting to a goal almost nothing will stand in your way? Determination is about wanting to achieve something and often this goes hand in hand with persistence and resilience; the ability to stick at something and when you face hurdles and setbacks, you have the resilience to keep going.

Andrea Walsh is one of very few CIOs in the Australian tech sector, currently managing 15 countries in the role for Isentia.

Earlier in the week my father phoned to ensure that I had received the website link he had sent via WhatsApp.

On the first day of 2017 I shared a quote that says “If you’re lucky enough to do well, it’s your responsibility to send the elevator back down”.