I don’t know if anything could have ever prepared me.. I was always a curious child, a country kid.. I grew up playing with horses, practiced shooting from the age of 5, helped collect timber on the weekends, was enforced a strong work ethic and if I was lucky I’d get a $2 Sunday after…
The most surprising comment made After the Top 100 Women hosted the panel “Building Women, Not just Houses” the most surprising feedback came after the event. And it’s not what you might think! No, it was not “Yes, we all hate men!” or “Yes you tell them men to sit in a corner and let…
See why the Top 100 is the fastest growing community for women in this sector Many of women AND men have been asking of late about the Top 100 Women to know more and the understand how they too can get involved. The Top 100 Women was founded to help expand upon the community for…
How do I prepare my leadership for the future? Do you want to be a successful leader in the era of disruption? Remember it is talent, not technology that will give your organisation the competitive advantage. This week I attended a fascinating seminar with Bernard Salt entitled Future of Work. It was apparent during the seminar that…
Who can we trust? Another builder, another suspension Whilst we typically stay away from fear producing articles, the fact of the matter is that shifts in the market, periods of let’s call them ‘transition’ and ‘downturn’, give us a greater opportunity to have a really good look at our systems within the sector. Currently, there…
New financial reporting obligations have arrived in Queensland The building and construction industry has endured a spate of construction-related insolvencies in recent years. According to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) almost one-fifth of all corporate insolvencies in the 2016-17 and 2017-18 financial years were construction-related companies1. Although failures in construction are not a…
Hi-Vis Women the way forward for building, construction As we approach International Women’s Day, it’s timely to reflect on the progress women have made in professions that were seen largely as the domain of men — law, medicine, engineering and architecture to name a few. But there’s still so much to be done with women…
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