The Annual Bali Reading List 2019
Every August/September for the last eight years my husband and I go to Bali for nine days of sun, poolside, good eating and reading. Those nine days of no work stresses, home chores and life admin really re-energise us both to see us through the remainder of the year....
Recent fictional read that blew my mind
I am an avid reader. I grew up spending a lot of time at the Knox public library after school with my sister; I think a product of my dad not knowing what to do with us while my mother was working afternoon shifts at the soup factory. Every fortnight (every week...
Tips from the Shoe Dog
It is customary for me to do fun reading on the plane whenever flying for a holiday. By fun reading I mean leisurely, not work-related, not academic-studies-related good old fashioned fiction. There’s never enough time in the week to really dedicate solid hours to...
Leveraging silver linings of Covid-19
*This post is an unedited extract of an original article published and featured as the cover of the Association of Corporate Counsel's July/August 2020 publication, the ACC Docket. CLICK HERE for the full edited article. It goes without saying that 2020 has so far...
Lawyering and Teamwork
*Photo: Team Legal at the Women in Law Awards 2019 This is an unedited version of the original article that was published in the Association of Corporate Counsel Australia’s Corporate Lawyer Magazine, November Summer Edition 2019. Lawyers are trained to...
Conference keynote in Johannesburg 2019
June 2019 was nothing short of an epic month. Though not just because of the usual end of financial year madness that work always brings. I was privileged to be invited to speak at the Legal Innovation & Technology conferences in Johannesburg and Sydney so amongst...
EMBA Series: What is your value proposition
EMBA Series: What is your value proposition? Some of you may already know, I started studying again. Last month was the beginning of my Executive MBA. Four day residentials, once a month, for 18 months. And the hours are arguably longer than my working hours. But I am...
Legal Innovation & Tech Fest: the ultimate contracts management system
This post is an excerpt reproduced from the original article written by one of the team members from the Eventful Group, and was published on the Legal Innovation & Tech Fest Blog. The article is a summary of some key takeaways from my speaker session at the Legal...
60 Seconds on Australian property buying
I was speaking to a friend who was talking about her recent purchase of a home with her long-term partner. And it dawned on her. She had absolutely zero idea what needed to happen next and what it all financially meant for them, for her. It was the cliché “he took...
Steps to being a financially independent woman
Many women around the world remember the awe and wonder they felt over Carrie Bradshaw’s wardrobe (and that bankruptcy inducing shoe collection). What some of us may not remember is the brief conversation the four friends had around their approaches to their finances,...
