It’s NAIDOC week here in Australia. I’m writing this blog on Ngunnawal land and pay my respects to their elders, past and present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

During NAIDOC week, we come together as a nation to celebrate Indigenous hi...

Now I know that’s a controversial thing to say right now, especially in these times of defining consent. But to be honest, it’s the most accurate and succinct way to describe my experience last week.

For those of you who hang out with me more regularly, you will know my struggle to make sense of...

One of the things I absolutely love about my life is how things just come together. When I have a vision or an opportunity and just know in every inch of my being it’s meant to be, and that despite all the odds, the stars align, and it comes to fruition.

I’m living one of those moments right now...

A couple of weeks ago, I had one of those life-changing ah-ha moments. You know the ones you get when suddenly the world stops and everything goes still.

I’d realised that I’m a chronic overcommitter (yep, new word!). I always take on way too much. I’m always trying to find more time in the day,...

Winter is just around the corner for us here in the southern hemisphere and for those of us in the nation’s capital it certainly feels that way! After a mild Autumn a cold front has put an end to that as we all head into the back of the cupboards reaching for the coats, the gloves and the winter boo...

Has this ever happened to you?

You’ve been in a social setting at work, a morning tea or in those few minutes before a meeting starts and someone makes a sexist or a racist comment and then laughs it off.

Or maybe they tell an inappropriate joke or recall a story from the weekend that really...

Do you look at other leaders in your agency and just wish you were as confident as they are? Strutting into meetings, looking gorgeous and pulled together, making easy small talk as they balance their laptop and their coffee so effortlessly?

While your hair has gone AWOL after the rain, you’ve f...

Are you dealing with something really hard at the moment? Maybe you’re performance managing someone? Or you’ve got to tell your team that the project they’ve worked so hard on has had its funding pulled. Or maybe even you’ve got a lot going on at home and you snapped at someone in a meeting today, a...