Over the last month we’ve had the good fortune of being in some of the most breathtaking and remote locations in South Australia’s Ikara-Flinders Ranges with two groups of leaders on our Ikara-Ediacara: Past, Present and Future Leadership Experience. Our journey was one of reconnecting with the past: 30,000-year-old petroglyphs created by First Nations peoples [...]
Anyone who has done any work with us around emotional health will likely be familiar with a number of key concepts we often return to – such as ‘above and below the line’, the ‘inner observer’ and ‘behavioural freedom’. While all of these are foundational to emotional health, each is powerful in its own right. [...]
I recently came across a presentation I delivered to the Student Conference of AHRI (the Australian Human Resources Institute) in 1998. The topic was ‘Building a sustainable career’, with a particular focus for those who were at the beginning of their professions and not in formal leadership roles. Looking back at it now, I can’t [...]
One of the conversations that is occurring more frequently for us at the moment revolves around people returning to the workplace as we transition towards a ‘post-pandemic’ world. In most states of Australia, various workplaces are now permitted to have 50 to 75 per cent of their workforce back on site, provided certain Covid-safe practices [...]
As 2020 came to a close, I had a very special call with some alumni of the Opening Doors Social Inclusion Leadership Program here in Melbourne. Part of our reflection centred around what had changed in our world as leaders since Covid-19 arrived. As we concluded the session, one of the group asked, ‘As we [...]
We were so pleased to be able to host our annual end-of-year Fellowship Event in Melbourne last month. We felt truly blessed to have the opportunity to reconnect face-to-face with many of our Fellows, Friends, colleagues and clients, albeit following all the physical distancing and COVID procedures! We always enjoy each other's company at these [...]
Back when I embarked on my career in the wine industry, it’s fair to say that conversations about a business’s role in the world beyond its own market were rare. These were the days when someone like Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop, was promoting the idea that business could be a force for [...]
The arrival of election day 2020 in the USA, with the whole world watching in various forms of anxiousness and fascination, has brought to mind for me some work we did some years ago with a city council. It was a lesson in the way some leaders see themselves in relation to the rest of [...]
This month we feature a guest post from one of our recent Tables of Ten participants, Karl Fitzgerald. Karl is an economist for Prosper Australia, an NGO specialising in a fairer tax system. He runs the monthly Renegade Economists podcast and is best known for his study of vacant housing. When I first heard about [...]
I recently came across my High School Yearbook from a year I spent (a few years ago!) as an exchange student at Springfield High School in Vermont, USA. My senior photo appears along with a quote by French philosopher Albert Camus: ‘In the midst of winter I found there was, within me, an invincible summer’. [...]
