How these two women are driving a 103-year-old, $10bn business into the future

Taking inspiration from software giants Atlassian, Lizzy Geremia and Sally Young, are driving plumbing giants Reece Group into the future with a renewed focus on culture. Lizzy Geremia and Sally Young were brought into Reece Group with a major task: future-proof work at Reece. For the $10 billion ASX-listed business (that’s been around since 1920), […]

The $37 million wave: Inside wild Aussie surf park

A radical Aussie surf-park design promises a new wave of cheaper rides and higher real estate values. Aaron Trevis was messing around with the kids, skimming stones in a lake back of Brisbane in 2006, when he started showing off, lobbing ever larger boulders for the splash. Trevis, a mining engineer and surfer who’d found […]

‘They laughed at me, but they weren’t laughing a year later’: Wendy McCarthy on the perils of being too polite

Wendy McCarthy AO is a businesswoman, activist, author and former university chancellor. Her numerous professional associations span the public and private sectors and international aid. She reflects on a life’s work in the public eye. Wendy McCarthy will be speaking at the Forbes Women’s Summit in Sydney on March 22nd.   When Wendy McCarthy AO […]

Barack Obama’s leadership lessons for Australia

Former Foreign Minister and Deputy Liberal Leader, Julie Bishop, will lead a conversation with former US President Barack Obama in Sydney and Melbourne later this month. Former US President Barack Obama will travel to Sydney and Melbourne later this month to discuss the topic of “strength in leadership”, offering insights into his time as Commander […]

Why it’s ‘now or never’ for electric vehicles in Australia

Can Samantha Johnson help reshape a sustainable Australian automotive landscape in a land obsessed with fuel-guzzling SUVs and light trucks? At face value, Samantha Johnson might not appear to be a natural choice as one of the most influential leaders in Australia’s burgeoning electric vehicle (EV) market. But her extensive career in the international multi-billion-dollar […]

Where to go when Insta bans you

Michelle Battersby on creating a safe space for dangerous nipples. There was always a question in Michelle Battersby’s mind while she built the Australian business of the dating app Bumble. As the app went through a million Australian registrations, two million, then three million, the question remained: “Am I really good at this?” Or was […]

Using the power of the sun to squeeze into that market gap

How two colleagues went from whiteboard to 25 countries with their sunscreen beauty brand Ultra Violette So what do you do when you’ve got an idea for a new business, but the one person in the world you’d want to start that business with is your boss? Ava Matthews says she doesn’t have much of […]

Designing for disaster – how one Australian architect is making a difference

Architect James Davidson wants to move the dial faster on making homes safer, insurance cheaper and enabling communities to rebuild better when nature devastates cities and regions. Australia has always seen extreme natural events, doused with flooding rains, burnt by bushfires, scorched by drought and buffeted by cyclones and dust storms that smother regional areas […]