25 Nov 2015
Amanda Gome
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Former head of digital and social media, ANZ
Without visibility and communication skills women, unless taken under the wing of a top male powerbroker, have almost no chance of progressing to the top levels of business.
14 Oct 2015
Amanda Gome
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Former head of digital and social media, ANZ
Recently one of the smartest executives I know, who is always ahead of trend curves, looked at me bewildered. “I can't keep up anymore," he said. “I don't know how."
29 Sep 2015
Amanda Gome
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Former head of digital and social media, ANZ
Launched in the United Kingdom in 2010 with the goal of achieving 30 per cent women on FTSE-100 boards by the end of 2015, the 30% Club migrated to Australia earlier this year with events in Sydney and Melbourne.
30 Jun 2015
Amanda Gome
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Former head of digital and social media, ANZ
High-profile recruiter Heidi Mason knows who's who at the top end of business. As managing director of Russell Reynolds Associates she often meets with major companies to discuss candidates for executive and non-executive roles in the financial services industry. One of the key attributes she looks for these days is digital experience and capability. Social media is a key part of that.
08 May 2015
Amanda Gome
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Former head of digital and social media, ANZ
Global diversity campaign 30% Club has launched in Australia, aiming to lead the nation's most influential company directors in a push to see women make up 30 per cent of ASX200 boards by 2018.
05 May 2015
Amanda Gome
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Former head of digital and social media, ANZ
Global diversity campaign 30% Club is launching in Australia, hoping to lead the nation's most influential company directors in a push to see women make up 30 per cent of ASX 200 boards by 2018.
23 Apr 2015
Amanda Gome
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Former head of digital and social media, ANZ
Across the financial services industry there is still scepticism around the value of social media. “Isn't it personal?" some ask. “What's the value to a bank of embracing social media? And are our customers really even on it?"
19 Mar 2015
Amanda Gome
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Former head of digital and social media, ANZ
In celebration of International Women's Day earlier in March, one of Australia's leading company directors Paula Dwyer, chair of ASX100 groups Tabcorp, Healthscope and an independent non-executive director at ANZ, spoke with ANZ's head of digital and social media Amanda Gome at Melbourne's Alexandra Club.
03 Mar 2015
Amanda Gome
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Former head of digital and social media, ANZ
Visibility may be a missing link in promoting more women into senior leadership roles. In a surprise finding from a survey of Notable Women, a program undertaken by 55 senior female leaders at ANZ in Australia and New Zealand in 2014, increased visibility contributed to greater confidence in pushing for leadership roles.
10 Dec 2014
Amanda Gome
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Former head of digital and social media, ANZ
ANZ welcomes recommendations from David Murray’s year-long review into the financial services industry to lift education, training and competency standards for financial advisers.
29 Oct 2014
Amanda Gome
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Former head of digital and social media, ANZ
It is no Silicon Valley. But in Surrey Hills, Sydney last week, hundreds of investors, industry leaders and entrepreneurs gathered at one of the high-profile events on the Australian technology start-up community calendar to watch 23 pitches to some of Australia’s wealthiest investors.
15 Oct 2014
Amanda Gome
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Former head of digital and social media, ANZ
Like thousands of other entrepreneurs, I made a promise. When running my digital media start-up, I had offered a prominent journalist a small stake to lure him away from a prestigious job at a large company.
06 Oct 2014
Amanda Gome
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Former head of digital and social media, ANZ
It’s a fact: everyone knows women get to the top and slam the door rudely behind them, preventing other women joining them. Or so I am constantly told in conversations exploring that vexing problem of improving female representation in senior levels of business.
11 Sep 2014
Amanda Gome
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Former head of digital and social media, ANZ
BlueNotes recently revealed thats there has been a 30 per cent decrease in the number of start-ups in Australia in the last three years, from 342,753 in the 2010 financial year to 239,229 in 2013. That’s pretty big news. Add to that a decline in operating firms, and a big red flag should be waving.
21 Aug 2014
Amanda Gome
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Former head of digital and social media, ANZ
"If I hadn't made that first step to have some visibility, I'm not sure that I would have ever become Australia's Sex Discrimination Commissioner." - Elizabeth Broderick
12 Aug 2014
Amanda Gome
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Former head of digital and social media, ANZ
Last week’s rise in Australia’s jobless figures was a shock. Whether it was a rogue one off or heralds a shift to future employment rises, let’s take it as a big wake-up call just in case – in particular the data showing youth unemployment has risen above 20 per cent for the first time in 20 years.
25 Jun 2014
Amanda Gome
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Former head of digital and social media, ANZ
Australia should not introduce quotas to lift the numbers of women on boards despite the slow pace of change, according to David Gonski, ANZ and Coca-Cola Amatil chairman.
12 Jun 2014
Amanda Gome
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Former head of digital and social media, ANZ
Access to finance can be a major barrier to expansion for many small and medium-sized businesses but when those businesses are run and owned by women that barrier is even higher.
03 Jun 2014
Amanda Gome
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Former head of digital and social media, ANZ
Australian consumer confidence has bounced back after a recent plunge, the first, albeit tentative, sign of Australians shaking off their recent funk. The ANZ-Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence survey has turned around after its recent plunge, rising 2.9 per cent in the week ending 1 June - the first increase since negative news flow related to the Budget began six weeks ago.
02 Jun 2014
Amanda Gome
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Former head of digital and social media, ANZ
Opportunities for ANZ remain strong in China
02 Jun 2014
Amanda Gome
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Former head of digital and social media, ANZ
Guess who is the fastest growing age group running small businesses? No, it’s not geeky 25 year olds who are right at home in Silicon Valley. Nor is it women.
12 May 2014
Amanda Gome
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Former head of digital and social media, ANZ
If one definition of sexism is exclusion of women, then newsrooms and most of the media products they put out are sexist. Business newsrooms are among the worst. Sit down on any one day and count up the stories by men, about men, featuring pictures of men, quoting men as experts, featuring a bank of men in advertisements and on panels. Actually, save yourself some time and just count the women. In fact a perpetual headache for photographers from mainstream media is coming up with creative ways to snap men in suits.