Carla Zampatti – Tribute The vivid conversation I had with Carla about colour as part of the judging process for the EY Entrepreneur of the Year will always stay with me. It was 2011, I was 10 years into my RedBalloon entrepreneurial journey and whilst the other...
Goal setting is about getting what you want… Sometimes (especially in times of significant change) goal setting seems rather pointless. We often say to ourselves ‘there is so much we cannot control – it is too hard to plan.’ But if you don’t plan – and set...
Adapting to external factors quickly helps find growth Depending on which day you read this, the world is likely to be very different than the day before. Adapting to these moment by moment changes for small businesses has become paramount to survival. Customer...
Removing plastic to help the green turtles I’m lucky enough to be on holiday at a remote North Queensland beach and each morning my husband, dog and I walk the length of the beach. We never know what we will see. It is a wonderful ritual of conversation and...
Links on where and how to help with bushfire relief. Leigh Sales wrote in her book Any Ordinary Day, that people of disaster never ‘get over it’ there just becomes a ‘new normal’ a way to move forward, rebuild and have a different life. As most of us watch the horror...
Five lessons on working with purpose This is the first time in a year that I have had no internet. I struggled with it at first, but the time ‘unplugged’ has proven to be most valuable. I brought one book along on this trip – Inspired Inc (which I consumed with...
Why we took the BRG to Uluru ‘Company offsites’, ‘kick-off meetings’ and ‘sales incentive trips’ have long been part of the business landscape. Getting people together, talking about the future, educating, inspiring and creating alignment. It’s easy when you only have...
Mongolia reconnected me to my purpose I’m known for my busyness. People often remark: “I don’t know how you fit everything in”. Always somewhere to go, someone to meet, somehow on a deadline. Yet when Lisa Pagotto asked me to join her on one of her Crooked Compass...
