It is true that the leadership and involvement by German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the helm of Women20 Summit in Berlin was the ‘chance of a decade’ in spite of some criticism of high-profile attendee, Ivanka Trump. For the record, I’m happy to take whatever chance I get to highlight…
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A big start to the year, came thanks to The Global Foundation Rome Roundtable. I was invited to facilitate a panel – on women’s economic empowerment, as one of Australia’s W20 delegates. An inspiring international event, brought together leaders from business, academia, civil society, government and faiths – the Catholic…

“Closing the Gender Gap: 25 by 2025” Our focus on the economic empowerment and advancement of women – here is the video from the OECD Forum, Paris 2016, featuring the session I hosted on “Closing the Gender Gap: 25 by 2025″. Read more about it, where I have written a…

As the W20 for 2016 concluded, and Susan Harris Rimmer and I farewelled the host city, Xi’an, China, I paused for thought. There is always a risk of blurring the lines between optimism and false hope. I am leaning towards optimism in what I hope is a “New Normal” way…

As I said in a previous post here at Fulworks – it was an honour to be chosen as the first Australian representative to the Women20 (W20) Engagement group to the G20, held in Istanbul last October. In May this year (2016) I was off to Xi’an, China, for the…
Here’s the fact: By 2017, 70% of all online web traffic will be video* It’s a massive piece of the future for online engagement. Are you prepared? My enterprising good friend and collaborator, former Washington DC reporter and professional media trainer, Andrea Clarke tells me that in businesses of all sizes,…
Angela Lavender loves her country life and she kindly gave us some insights into her vision for Country Culture at our recent Fulworks event on “Brand” and “Reputation”. Her inspired online business, takes the best of Country Culture and closes the gap between regional Australia and the world. That is…

Dani Valent describes herself a writer, eater and a cook – and she’s managed to make a marvellous mix of all three to become a pioneer in what is a very competitive market for cookbooks. As she tells me in my Enterprising Women column (AFR 21 June 2014) Dani was the…

It’s hard to keep up with the creative force that is Tania de Jong, a visionary and energetic force to be reckoned with in the sphere of social entrepreneurship. Over about two decades Tania has founded and operated a number of charity choirs, leadership workshops, events and much more under…
By “boomers”, Elaine Saunders means those of us getting to a certain demographic where the hearing starts to falter! We all live with someone, work with someone, have observed someone, whose speaking volume is further up the dial than the rest of us! The innovative team at Blamey Saunders Hearing…