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Amanda Gome
Former head of digital and social media, ANZ

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25 Nov 2015

Women: visibility a key to success

Amanda Gome | 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

'Gut feel' leadership is dead

Amanda Gome | 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

Dearth of women in leadership pipelines

Amanda Gome | 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

Five ways social media is shattering the glass ceiling

Amanda Gome | 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

The only way to get more women on boards

Amanda Gome | 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

Forget quotas, diversity campaigns are better for women on boards

Amanda Gome | 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

Social customers will transform banking

Amanda Gome | 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

Lack of women on boards restricts perspectives, outcomes

Amanda Gome | 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

The missing link for women in leadership

Amanda Gome | 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

Adding exams would give Murray report extra marks

Amanda Gome | 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

Sydney tech start-up scene gets a big tick

Amanda Gome | 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

Huge fillip for Australian start-ups from changes to share rules

Amanda Gome | 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.