02 Mar 2023
Carina Parisella
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Innovation & Diversity Editor, bluenotes
Closing the gender gaps is more than an annual commitment. This selection of stories celebrates the efforts for and by women from all walks of life from all through the year.
28 Jul 2017
Shane White
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Content Manager - Institutional, ANZ
bluenotes contributor, guest editor recognised for work on gender equality.
18 Apr 2017
Erica Hardinge
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Head of Security Enablement, ANZ
Countless times throughout my career I've been counselled that I need to choose - often by amazing mothers and full-time career women.
07 Mar 2017
Catherine Fox
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Journalist and author
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
07 Mar 2017
Fiona Smith
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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
07 Mar 2017
Tammy Medard
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Managing Director Institutional Australia, ANZ
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
06 Mar 2017
Catherine Fox
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Journalist and author
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
03 Mar 2017
Matt Nicol
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bluenotes contributor
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 Mar 2017
Yoomi Jun
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Author, UN Women
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
01 Feb 2017
Elizabeth Masamune
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Managing Director of @Asia Associates Japan
Do some countries value women more than others?
30 Jan 2017
Anna Green
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CEO Philippines, ANZ
Deeply embedded attitudinal barriers toward women in the workplace still exist despite what we know about discrimination, Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins says, even if we think we have moved beyond them.
16 Nov 2016
Fiona Smith
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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”.
09 Nov 2016
Sarah Imm
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Founder, Vélo-à-Porter
Much has been written about the reasons why women in Australia and around the world are absent from senior management roles, boards and the C-suite.
20 Oct 2016
Alex Kewley
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Director, Client Insights & Solutions, ANZ
I recently sat on a panel discussing gender diversity composed of bankers, consultants, Google employees, economists and a room full of European Business School students.
18 Oct 2016
Grace Lever
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Entrepreneur & Winner, 2016 Telstra Women's Business Award
Entrepreneurs in Australia are twice as likely to be male than female. The number of female business founders is increasing but women are still underrepresented.
27 Sep 2016
Pete Barnao
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BlueNotes contributing editor
A group of women entrepreneurs are supercharging their business ambitions with New Zealand’s first accelerator program for start-ups led by women.
12 Sep 2016
Fiona Smith
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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.
13 Jul 2016
Catherine Fox
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Journalist and author
A woman working for a large company tells her teammates she’s off to a meeting and will be away for an hour or so.
30 May 2016
Angelique Beck
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Business Manager Technology, ANZ
Disruptive collaborative and communications technologies have changed the way cross-border trade operates by compressing the distance between nations, the director of cross-border business at Pitcher Partners Rohini Kappadath says.
11 May 2016
Carina Parisella
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Innovation & Diversity Editor, bluenotes
Few would argue against more young girls studying STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) subjects. Statistics show employment in the sector is dominated by men at all levels, from education to boardrooms.
26 Apr 2016
Cynthia Balogh
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National Program Manager Women in Global Business, Austrade
Female entrepreneurs are finding it harder than ever to access the capital they need to succeed in business. Meanwhile, the window for traditional lenders to take advantage of this unmet demand is closing amid the rise of new funding methods.
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.
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.
04 Jun 2015
Michelle Rayner
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Former Executive Director Strategy, ANZ
Traditional leaders tend to focus our attention on developing only the 'best' people or those with the highest level of potential. This assumes we know how to find talent based on textbook selection criteria and processes. But are we overlooking our future leaders because we are not looking in the right places?
12 Mar 2015
Claire Rogers
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Former Head of Digital Strategy & Business Performance, ANZ
The digital revolution has completely shifted power in the marketplace from producer to the consumers in just 15 short years and as in all revolutions there have been winners and losers.
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.
02 Mar 2015
BlueNotes reporter
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BlueNotes Debates brings together important voices across the business, economic and social spectrum to thrash out crucial issues of the day. For International Women's Day, we tackled the issue of women's lack of workplace visibility. Who really is to blame?
27 Feb 2015
Jo Mikleus
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Former Chief of Staff, ANZ
My daughter Grace stopped me in my tracks recently. “It’s good to see successful females,” she said, referring to Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop.
23 Oct 2014
Susie Babani
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Former Chief Human Resources Officer at ANZ
Leaders can no longer lead with command and control. Here’re five things employees look for in leadership.
10 Oct 2014
Suzette Corr
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Group General Manager Institutional Human Resources, ANZ
I would rather break a leg than do self-promotion. So when I was invited by ANZ CEO Mike Smith to take part in a new program called Notable Women, I felt a bit uncomfortable. Even the title made me cringe.
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.
30 Sep 2014
Suzette Corr
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Group General Manager Institutional Human Resources, ANZ
Years ago I had a colleague who had a plaque on her desk that read, “If it’s meant to be, it’s up to me”. I found it vaguely irritating and dismissed it as pop psychology.
26 Aug 2014
Jennifer Farmer & Nicole Franklin
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BlueNotes production editor & BlueNotes contributing editor
BlueNotes Debates will bring together important voices across the business, economics and social spectrum to thrash out where the issues lie. They’ll be important but colourful affairs – and Monday’s first stoush was a case in point with Sex Discrimination Commissioner Elizabeth Broderick, company director and gender activist Carol Schwartz, the Australian Financial Review’s Mike Smith (with the event opened by his namesake from ANZ) and BlueNotes associate editor Amanda Gome.
26 Aug 2014
Belinda Gaskell
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Communications Manager
BlueNotes Debates will bring together important voices across the business, economics and social spectrum to thrash out where the issues lie. They’ll be important but colourful affairs – and Monday’s first stoush was a case in point with Sex Discrimination Commissioner Elizabeth Broderick, company director and gender activist Carol Schwartz, the Australian Financial Review’s Mike Smith (with the event opened by his namesake from ANZ) and BlueNotes associate editor Amanda Gome.
25 Aug 2014
Mike Smith
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Former Chief Executive Officer, ANZ
When I signed up to the Male Champions of Change (MCC) initiative, along with a group of other Australian CEOs and Chairs, I wanted to contribute my influence to help improve gender equality in business.
25 Aug 2014
Elizabeth Broderick
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Former Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner
Six themes for better gender equality in companies – and better companies