Turf love: How horse lover and Australian Turf Club Chair Trish Egan harnessed her passion
Oct 29, 2021
Trish Egan is a born and bred Sydney girl, but she has had a lifelong love of horses from a young age, further fuelled when Dad would take her to the races as a child. Looking back, 12-year-old Trish - who secretly penned a letter to the Chairman of the Australian Jockey Club asking how she could secure her “dream...
Taking charge: Engineering’s first lady Dr Bronwyn Evans PhD AM
Oct 25, 2021
It’s no surprise Dr Bronwyn Evans AM sticks by the mantra ‘everyone’s an engineer’. As CEO of Australia’s peak engineering body Engineers Australia and recognised as one of the country’s 100 most influential engineers, she can’t understand why everyone doesn’t want to work in her chosen field.
A...
Bringing the Tech perspective to Boards with Lil Bianchi
Oct 18, 2021
Lil Bianchi is not your box-ticking director. As a highly-experienced Non-Executive Director, Chair Audit & Risk Committee, former CEO and tech entrepreneur working across data analytics, fintech, risk and customer value Lil thrives on innovation and change and loves being around curious people.
As she tells Claire in...
Fashion to financial markets: How Mahjabeen Zaman found her voice
Oct 8, 2021
Fashion designer, newsreader, banker, lecturer: Mahjabeen Zaman has had all these careers in her sights since growing up in Singapore in the 80s with her parents who moved there from Pakistan.
Now Mahjabeen, who has called Australia home since 2017, can add three of those four jobs to her resume. Currently working as...
Leesa Chesser: From Politics to the Boardroom
Oct 4, 2021
If anything can prepare you for battle in the boardroom, it’s being a politician in the middle of a crisis.
Former-South Australian Mental Health Minister and Women on Boards member, Leesa Chesser (nee Leesa Vlahos) was thrust into the spotlight when allegations of elder abuse of dementia patients at the state-run...