Nikki Beaumont, CEO & Founder Beaumont People has dedicated her 30 year career to helping people find their next career step. With the tagline, Placing People First, Nikki has embedded this philosophy within her business. Her response to the Global Financial Crisis downturn was to introduce a low cost recruitment...
Female Leaders, Nadine Bates & Kristen Souvlis, Like a Photon Creative
Nadine Bates, Creative Director and Kristen Souvlis, Managing Director are co-founders of award winning production company Like a Photon Creative. Like a Photon Creative produces animated children’s content with a focus on diversity and gender parity both onscreen and behind screen, but mostly they create joy. Founded in 2012, Like...
Prepare to lead your next pay negotiation by Other Side of the Table Founder, Sam Trattles
So, you’ve been in your current role for about two years. You’re starting to consider if there is a future in the business for you. You have an awesome boss who has worked with you to ensure you have a clear pathway for your future mapped out, with identified milestones...
Solving the Thorny Issue of Gender Inequality in Sport
Sport is an integral component of the society that is Australia and has featured consistently throughout my entire life, whether as a little person watching from the sidelines when my parents played or as a young person and adult being involved in various team and individual sports. As I became...
Gender Equality is for Men Too
Hey Men, Do You Want Better Quality of Life? I was shocked and moved when I first watched the Man Up TV Series. I initially watched the series because I am really interested in what makes men and boys tick (my work in achieving gender equality depends on engaging men in the...
Female Leader, Florence Drummond, Indigenous Women in Mining & Resources Australia
Florence Drummond, Co-Founder of Indigenous Women in Mining & Resources Australia (IWIMRA), is on a mission to connect every Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander woman working in the mining and resources industry across Australia, to support each other in their career journey. From her home base in Weipa, Florence and...
Female Leader, Elise Stevens, Author & Founder Age Defying Careers
Elise Stevens founded her business Age Defying Careers to help women over 40 learn new skills and embrace change and transformation to reach their career goals. Elise’s own successful career in project management led her to begin Podcasting, seeking out, connecting with and sharing the career stories of other women...
Flexible Working Day – 22 May 2019
The world has changed and continues to change. Many of us no longer work in factories where the more hours you did, the more output you achieved. Where you clocked in and out for your shift using your time cards. Thanks to technology, new industries and entrepreneurs globally solving problems,...
Catherine Fox on Women Kind, quotas and advancing women in the workplace
Catherine Fox, Director of Diversity at Women & Leadership Australia (WLA), author, columnist and broadcaster, has spent more than 20 years finding out how we can get more women into the workplace. She is speaking at WLA’s forthcoming Australian Women’s Leadership Symposiums, delivering a fascinating session entitled Women Kind: Unlocking...
Gender Equality Services: Culturally Diverse Workforces & Culturally Diverse Women
49% of Australia is multicultural, representing our diverse customer market, yet organisations do not reflect this diversity in their senior leadership. Diverse female employees, experience the double jeopardy of culture and gender, which sees even less culturally diverse women; (less than 1.9%) in top jobs. The fastest growing customer market...
Female Leader, Lyndell Fogarty, CEO performHR
Lyndell Fogarty CEO performHR started her business 10 years ago, with a vision of providing a HR service model that allowed business leaders to focus on leading, growing and protecting their organisations. Ten years on and performHR is leading the way in how professional HR delivery can be – pragmatic, agile and...
Mythbusting – Women and Employment
Five Ways You Can Bust Myths About Women and Why It’s Important Inequity, inequality and injustice are sure things to get me fired up. When Libby Lyons, Director of WGEA recently posted on Twitter about a (small) drop in the gender pay gap, the thread of comments that followed were an illuminating insight into...
