You’re in a meeting and put your idea forward yet it doesn’t make it to the whiteboard, or into the budget.  Until one of your male colleagues picks it up, reframes it and claims it as his own... to the great fanfare from the rest of your team. Does this sound familiar?  And what can you do to change the outcome? How to be heard in meetings, and how to get your initiatives onto the strategic agenda, is one of the most common issues raised by the mentees and female audiences I work with.   So what can you do to make sure your voice is heard? Read More

Are you planning on returning to work or reviewing your career options so you have more work life balance?  Mums@work is proudly supporting mums & dads to return to work and kickstart their career  by running a ‘Career After Kids’ practical 2.5hr seminar facilitated by career experts to answer all your questions about getting back to work. This seminar has it all and is designed for parents on parental leave, looking to re-enter the job market or make a career change. Read More

We know that women control an estimated 80% of all household purchasing decisions... so why don't the salespeople we encounter get that and treat us as the intelligent consumers that we are?  Because until now they could! Read More

Who would you rate as the best performing CEO in the world - now and over time?  This month's Harvard Business Review includes of the best performing CEOs in the world.  Given a lot of people have blamed short-term thinking for causing our current economic troubles, debate has ensued about what time window should be used to assess a CEO’s performance. Today boards of directors, senior managers, and investors intensely want to know how CEOs handle the ups and downs of running businesses over an extended period. Many executive compensation plans define the “long term” as a three-year horizon, but the real test of a CEO’s leadership has to be how the company does over his or her full tenure.

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I loooooove books.  Love them!  My dream job is to own a book shop, but I'm not sure I'd be any good at it.... I'd want the store shelves to look like my own book shelves that are positively bulging at the seams and I'd never want to part with any of them.  Lucky my lovely husband is in the furniture business, so I can keep requesting more bookshelves for every birthday and Christmas! Read More

Another article in today's Sydney Morning Herald projects the fears of every (male) director of the board: that a quota may be introduced to improve the level of participation by women in leading our companies.  This time it's Michael Pascoe talking about The board's next fear: the female quota. We already know from the Women on Boards conference in September that David Gonski, Chairman of the ASX, is anti quotas and reflects the same sentiments as the "mystery chairman" in Pascoe's article.  So now we're told there are more just like him.  Surprise, surprise. Read More

The sphinxx office officially re-opens on Monday 11th January - however with earlybird registrations for Ascend closing on the 15th here’s a quick reminder to register now to get the special early-bird rate. Read More