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Fiona Smith
Leadership journalist

About Fiona Smith

articles by Fiona Smith

06 Mar 2018

IWD2018: leaders set sail for the winds of change

Fiona Smith | Leadership journalist

#meetoo changed the world. We speak to four senior leaders about what the new landscape looks like for women.

29 Jun 2017

The Goodes oil on culture, leadership & winning

Fiona Smith | Leadership journalist

Champion footballer and Australian Adam Goodes shares reflections on his career and success.

21 Jun 2017

How to have hard conversations with clients

Fiona Smith | Leadership journalist

There’s a number of techniques you can use to make ‘courageous’ conversations at work easier.

12 May 2017

Gay leaders and the power of role models

Fiona Smith | Leadership journalist

In business the penalties for being different have been all-too obvious. That’s slowly starting to change.

07 Mar 2017

IWD2017: Your baby or your boss?

Fiona Smith | Leadership journalist

To celebrate International Women’s day, all week BlueNotes will be guest edited by experienced journalist and author Catherine Fox. We’ll be publishing content on women, their experience in the workplace and the future of equality as the world looks to #beboldforchange. We hope you enjoy it. #IWD2017

02 Dec 2016

Go to your happy place: creative space at work

Fiona Smith | Leadership journalist

As the chief design officer for Apple, Jony Ive is one of the most-celebrated and well-rewarded creative thinkers alive. He works from a glass cube, with a laptop and handful of coloured pencils.

16 Nov 2016

Have visa, will travel: women won’t be left behind

Fiona Smith | Leadership journalist

Gaynor Reid is into her fourth year in Singapore with hospitality company AccorHotels and she still finds others in the expatriate community wrongly assume she is the “trailing spouse”.

12 Sep 2016

Taking the talking stick away from the men

Fiona Smith | Leadership journalist

When sociologist Dr Margaret Byrne filmed hundreds of hours of business meetings for her PHD on leadership 16 years ago, she discovered women’s voices were often ignored or silenced by interrupting men.

02 Aug 2016

Time to save experience from the scrap heap

Fiona Smith | Leadership journalist

It was the mention of his grandson that killed the job interview for Richard. The 65-year old had just been given the signal the job was ‘in the bag’ and was asked when he could start with a gas drilling company and whether a fly in-fly out work arrangement would be a problem.

24 May 2016

This is why men don’t go home to look after the baby

Fiona Smith | Leadership journalist

If you want to know why only one in 50 fathers take up paid parental leave, listen in on the conversations they have with their male colleagues and bosses.