Advice How to start managing overload and anxiety at work Our current era may be digital and sexily “disruptive”, but there are undoubtedly widening fault-lines in people’s capacity to cope.
Advice Introverted? 8 ways it can make you a great leader Susan Cain’s TED talk and book Quiet: The Power of Introverts brought to light the amazing qualities of introverts.
Advice ‘It takes hard work’: How to move beyond male-dominance and increase the number of women 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’.
Advice Great founders are ‘tall poppies’: Tips from a leading female entrepreneur 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.
Advice Michelle Bridges on building a business and saying ‘no’ 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.
Advice Love your female tribe and challenge what’s ‘normal’ Susan Harris Rimmer is helping to set a new agenda for women across the world.
Advice Seven female entrepreneurs on the price of passion Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? A bit of both, if the entrepreneurship panels at Women World Changers is anything to go by.
Advice Three career lessons from Melinda Gates When Melinda Gates entered the tech industry, the world was very different to what it looks like today.
Advice Three social media lessons from someone who’s seen inside a US presidential campaign 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.
Advice ‘The reality is that you need support’: Dell MD Angela Fox on the program that’s supported 170 mentoring relationships 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.
Advice How to build determination, persistence and resilience 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.
Advice The tech challenges women need to know about in 2017 Andrea Walsh is one of very few CIOs in the Australian tech sector, currently managing 15 countries in the role for Isentia.
