Collecting failures and collecting skills were keys to her success, Tesla chair Robyn Denholm tells the Forbes Australia Women’s Summit. Robyn Denholm Career at a Glance As one of the most senior Australian women in the tech industry, Robyn Denholm said she had been a lifelong, and daily, collector of new skills, which she likened […]
Speaking for the first time since her tumultuous exit as the boss of Netball Australia, Kelly Ryan opens on the public challenges of trying to save an entire sport. This article was featured in Issue 10 of Forbes Australia. Tap here to secure your copy. In September 2022, Netball Australia had just laid bare its dire […]
American Charlie Bass made a fortune in Australian mining but is now giving away a million dollars a year trying to break the country’s ‘resource curse’ – making him a Senior Australian of the Year candidate. Charlie Bass remembers seeing a bunch of men in dusty work clothes sitting on the kerb in Kalgoorlie, mid-morning, […]
Amanda Healy is an indigenous woman who employs 850 people at her engineering business. And she’s bent on straightening out what’s crooked in the land of opportunity. Amanda Healy was working up near the Arctic Circle, doing human resources for BHP as they built Canada’s first diamond mine when she faced a problem no male […]
Jacinta McDonell took on the Australian licence of US gym franchise Anytime Fitness in 2008. It had scaled to 425 clubs by the time she exited in 2018. She now focuses on leadership training and helping founders. She shared her key lessons at the Forbes Australia Leadership Forum. The first key to success that Jacinta […]
Test rugby’s all-time highest scorer, Dan Carter, learned to treat pressure as a privilege – and it turned his team around on the world’s biggest stage. Dan Carter is speaking live at the Forbes Australia Leadership Forum. Secure your seat here. For a player who won 99 of the 112 rugby tests he ever played, you wouldn’t […]
Few women in Australia carry the breadth of leadership experience of former New South Wales premier and Australian senator Kristina Keneally. From politics to sport and now her role as chief executive of the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Foundation – Keneally has experienced it all. Subscribe to Forbes Australia for full access to this and all […]
After a turbulent ending to her tenure as Australia Post’s CEO, Christine Holgate has re-emerged as the driving force behind the resurrection of staggering logistics giant, Toll Global Express. Since taking the helm in September 2021, Holgate has increased revenue by 16 per cent and halved staff turnover with the promise of profitability in the […]
Taking inspiration from software giants Atlassian, Lizzy Geremia and Sally Young, are driving plumbing giants Reece Group into the future with a renewed focus on culture. Lizzy Geremia and Sally Young were brought into Reece Group with a major task: future-proof work at Reece. For the $10 billion ASX-listed business (that’s been around since 1920), […]
Wendy McCarthy AO is a businesswoman, activist, author and former university chancellor. Her numerous professional associations span the public and private sectors and international aid. She reflects on a life’s work in the public eye. Wendy McCarthy will be speaking at the Forbes Women’s Summit in Sydney on March 22nd. When Wendy McCarthy AO […]