Some of you will know Vicki Allen from the Take the Lead mentoring session she led for us in her previous role as Chief Operating Officer at The Trust Company.  Vicki has been a wonderful mentor to me and so many other women, and so I’m sure you’ll join me in congratulating Vicki on her acceptance into the AICD mentoring program. Read More

Welcome to the 3M Australia team members who participated in my workshop at the 3M Innovation Centre where I asked to address the topic of "What women do to sabotage their career success".  People often ask me if I find it hard going to convince business about the benefits of taking women all the way to the top - but the reality is that most organisations that ask me to come and speak at their women's forums and to leadership teams are already getting a lot right when it comes to advancing women.  This is certainly true of 3M in Australia. Read More

I was thrilled to receive Kate's email yesterday announcing she had taken out the ACT Telstra Businesswoman Award for 2010.  Many of you know Kate Sykes - she has been a speaker at Ascend - and CareerMums, that seeks to help parents re-enter the workforce.  I'm sure you'll agree with me that Kate is a worthy recipient of this top honor, as well as a fabulous advocate for working women, and her recognition with this award further reinforces the rising priority for business to find and keep the best women on their teams. Read More

There is no denying that we live in a great country. Sure there aren’t enough women in leadership roles, and we work more than the OECD average hours per day and we’ve even got obesity issues to almost rival the home land of fast food’s weight problems. But we’re also packed full of people from all over the world, there is a huge range of exciting initiatives, that talk about and honestly believe in work life balance.  Read More

I’ve decided I get too much good news sent my way not to have a new blog category called “Wins” that celebrates and shares the achievements of so many wonderful women in the sphinxx network. To kick us off, a big congratulations to Sha-Maybe Chan and 2birds design for winning a WOLDA, the worldwide logo design annual. Read More