I was recently asked to facilitate a meeting that brought together a collective of organisations who’ve been working side by side for quite a few years.
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Why intersections matter in leadership
In her first role as Chief Health Information Manager at Caulfield Hospital, she was seen by many as too young and too fresh from university for the role. But she leaned in. She ignored the detractors, engaged with the system, and used the pushback she got as fuel.
How the Broncos Won (allegedly when the coach lightened up)
In recent weeks, Queensland’s gone full tilt maroon. The Lions, the women’s Broncos, and finally, the men’s team bringing home their first NRL premiership in 19 years.
The paradox of presence
When I was 20, fresh out of university and in my first HR job, one of the senior leaders told me they liked coming to me for advice because I didn’t waffle. I gave a clear, decisive response.
From table-thumping to conflict intelligence
The room was packed with officials and workplace delegates from the Building and Engineering Unions. There were rank-and-file and leaders, shoulder to shoulder. The all-male negotiating team who’d been in place before me, told me it had been tense, loud, and aggressive.
The danger of clinging to a single signal
Doing so, soothes the discomfort of not knowing, but it creates a false sense of certainty that does not last.
The hidden cost of “playing it safe”
The leader leaned back in their chair, clearly frustrated.
Why overlearning matters before storms hit
The moment I stepped onto the stage, the batteries in the clicker started to die. Of course, they worked fine in soundcheck. They worked fine for the two speakers before me. But the second I needed them, there was nothing. I clicked and clicked and clicked, and nothing happened. And when it finally did work, it jumped three slides ahead, and I had to backtrack.
The cost of “faking it till you make it”
She wasn’t the CEO, but she was a senior executive everyone watched. In the quarterly all-staff briefings, she stood at the front of the room with polished slides, confident tone, and reassuring stories about the future. People nodded. The board praised her calm under pressure.
The hidden web that makes or breaks change
As executive sponsor of a major ICT system rollout, I faced a project board full of senior stakeholders—each with competing priorities, and hundreds of deliverables buried in the procurement documents.