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From a very serious corporate career in marketing to creating a business based on fun RedBalloon, this is my journey. In this blog I share what it takes to be an entrepreneur and what I have learned - warts and all. I am also the author of 'I want what she is having' which chronicles the first five years of building of a fast growing business.
Very proud to be awarded National Telstra Business Womens Award for 2008 in the Nokia Innovation Catogory
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Grow!
Each trimester at RedBalloon we galvanize the plan by announcing a theme. The theme is always based on what is the most critical thing for the business to achieve right now! Last trimester the whole company got behind a ‘Red Dawn’ theme. Everyone chipped in as we launched the new version of the website. Some [...]
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Women at Work – Latte Magazine
I was asked recently my thoughts on parental leave by Valerie Khoo who was putting a piece together for the current issue of Latte Magazine - below are my comments - however she also got interesting comments from The Hon Tanya Plibersek and The Hon Julie Bishop... My comments: "I just wonder if we’re asking [...]
Something to do on a Monday
Today was my first day back in the office after school holidays... I arrived early, to start sorting through the mail, and messages before the meeting rhythm started. Quite a few of my colleagues were gathering together excitedly - eight of the team were going Sky Diving - including Jemma GM. One of the delegates [...]
Posted in Gift Experiences Also tagged Activities and Events, best places to work, Corporate Gifts, Female Entrepreneur, Fun at work 3 Comments
Bucket List review time
Some years ago I wrote my first dream catcher list (bucket list) – A place to note all the things I wanted to do, be or even have during my life time. (Each RedBallooner is encouraged to share their dream catcher list with us too). Some of my dreams are more attainable than others (like [...]
Posted in Gift Experiences Also tagged Activities and Events, Female Entrepreneur, Fun at work, Gift Experiences, Parenting 2 Comments
Five Ideas on hearth, home and harmony.
I was interviewed recently for an industry publication about my early days, family and getting ahead…. I thought I’d share my answers. Q1: You say on your website that “life is the sum of our experiences, not our belongings”. So can we have some thoughts on another sort of experience, the experience of buying a [...]
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“Naomi vs Elle” say the RedBallooners
I have to admit this made me laugh. I was recently nominated for the Instyle Women of Style Awards, up against Elle MacPherson and Kristina Karlsson from kikki.K in the Business Category. I attended the awards night and was both surprised and delighted to be named as the winner of the Business category. Little did [...]
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Balancing Balance..
Nigel Marsh has a simple story to tell - which vividly illustrates - "if it's meant to be it's up to me". We are the architects of our own future - responsible for our own happiness. One question that keeps bothering me during these discussions about paid parental leave... is this the right question we [...]
Posted in Input Please Also tagged Business Leadership, Employee Engagement, Female Entrepreneur, Managers at work, productivity 3 Comments
Where are the women…
I was speaking this week at the ADC Future Summit in Melbourne and there was quite some discussion on the fact that Australia is fast going backwards when it comes to women in leadership roles. My simple very non-theoretical answer when challenged on ‘why’ was simply ‘why not’. The reality is that one by one [...]
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What crossing the road teaches our children.
I was in the city last week with some of my colleagues and as we sat in the RedBalloon mini (Ruby) at the lights we watched a mother try to cross the road against the lights… a truck whipped around the corner… and it was inches from calamity. After the truck passed she did it [...]
Posted in Lessons Learned, Uncategorized Also tagged Female Entrepreneur, Leadership, Parenting 2 Comments
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