Women Leading the Future

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Jul 23

International Women’s Day 2007

Today I launch my blog on women in leadership - Women leading the Future. In my work I engage with both men and women. I am, however, as a woman passionate about and committed to, enhancing women’s opportunities to make a difference in their workplaces and in society. I want this blog to generate a global conversation around the achievements – both large and small - of women leaders and those aspiring towards leadership. As well, I want us to share with one another the very specific challenges women face as they consider and attempt the journey along the road to leadership today. Through that dialogue I hope we will together find pro-active ways to meet those challenges.

To celebrate International Women’s Day 2007, I produced a newsletter on Women in Leadership. It was the response to the issues raised there that motivated me to start this blog as a way of continuing the conversation it initiated.

Nov 27

Say Thank-You and Make the World A Better Place.

We live our lives on a frantic freeway, always racing, never time to stop. It's a 7 day working week nowadays. Most of us in two adult families are both working. Those who have families live a second full-on life with their kids after work because they are involved in many activities outside their school day as well. The parents race them around until 8 p.m. at night to all those activities. We are preparing them well for the rat race of life today.

When I was operating my counselling and psychotherapy practice and doing a lot of relationship counselling, one of the main "remedies" for putting life back into relationships that were dying was to encourage couples to cut back on the number of activities their children were involved in that actually took them away from one another and to do things together as a family at home. Many couples rarely saw one another long enough in any week to have anything resembling a quality conversation together.I am sure the situation is much the same today - if not worse.

Mar 10

Empowering Women on International Women's Day 2008

Happy International Women’s Day 2008! I realise I’m a day late, but I hope you’ll believe me when I tell you that I was celebrating yesterday. In fact, because IWD was on a Saturday here in Australia, the celebrations took place on almost every day of the past week.

What a year it has been for the women of Australia. There are a number of events that have happened this year that make me feel especially good about being a woman in Australia. They have strengthened my identity as a woman and affirmed it. In fact these things have given me something to identify with that fits with my image of womanhood in 2008. I have confidence that there are other women leaders out there working to make the sort of difference I also am wanting to make.

1. There was the election of the Rudd Labor government and everything that   came with that for women.

2. There was  the media attention given to the Victorian Chief Commissioner of Police, Christine Nixon’s leadership style as she manages the cultural transformation of the Victorian Police Force.

3. There was the celebration of the centenary of Women’s Suffrage in Victoria.

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