Peggy Liu has worked as a venture capitalist in Shanghai, an e-commerce pioneer in Silicon Valley, a software marketing executive, a McKinsey consultant and a computer programmer, and she says it̵…
Profiles
They hate your idea? Shut them out: Mr & Mrs Smith’s Tamara Lohan
Tamara Lohan proudly doesn’t hire from the publishing industry for her global travel guide business, Mr & Mrs Smith. It’s a rule she and her co-founder, husband James Lohan, came up wi…
From Afghanistan to Australia and back: a foreign correspondent’s personal fight for freedom
She has travelled through war-torn regions in Yemen, Libya and Iraq for her work but for Yalda Hakim’s parents, it is her trips to Afghanistan they find the hardest to understand. Their resistan…
How to celebrate success and say ‘I did it!’
Recently, we announced the winners of the 2013 NAB Women’s Agenda Leadership Awards. This video’s a tribute to some of our favourite quotes from our finalists – women who proudly say ̵…
Boost Juice’s Janine Allis: Forget the work/life balance
Janine Allis describes herself as “a girl from the burbs who had no idea about business”. She started her first Boost Juice bar in Adelaide, despite not actually living in the state, in a …
Surfing champion Layne Beachley: Dissatisfaction helps me to maintain motivation
Layne Beachley is a seven time ASP Women’s World Champion and the most successful female surfer of all time. She holds the greatest number of consecutive world titles -‐ male or female — …
