Insights and Member Spotlights

Your Legacy. Your Dreams. By Lyn Hawkins – Founder and National Director of Business Women Australia We inherit much more than money. We inherit beliefs about success. About work. About power. About what a good life looks like. About what we should accumulate, protect and eventually pass on. We inherit traditions and family expectations. But inheritance does not have to mean continuation. We get to decide what happens next. And

Leading Through AI: Who Owns the Consequences? Reflections from the Business Women Australia Sydney Leadership Roundtable By Vicki Wu, Advisory Board of Business Women Australia And Founder of AI Kindred Families What happens when we stop talking about AI as a technology problem and start talking about it as a leadership question? That was one of my strongest reflections after co-hosting Business Women Australia’s Sydney Leadership Roundtable, Leading Through AI:

Government Incentives & R&D Proposals: Reflections from our BWA Roundtable in Western Sydney By Monica Lei, Director at BDO Australia, Melissa Fardone, Partner – R&D at BDO Australia, and Brenda Chau, Director – R&D & Indirect Tax at BDO Australia Government grants and R&D incentives can help businesses innovate, grow and build new capabilities. Yet, as participants at the recent BWA Western Sydney Roundtable discussed, securing government support takes more

AI is Changing How We Work. How Are We Changing With It? By Tanya Gawthorne, facilitator, strategic planning consultant, and Founder of Balanced Consulting There is no shortage of conversations about artificial intelligence. We are being told which tools to use, how AI can improve productivity, what it might mean for our businesses and professions, and why we need to keep up. Alongside all of this advice and enthusiasm are

Growth Changes the Business, and Leadership Must Change With It By Elisia Coetzee, Director of Strategic HR Australia and a highly experienced Human Resources and Industrial Relations specialist At a recent Business Women Australia roundtable, I had the privilege of facilitating a candid discussion with business leaders about culture, compliance, and confidence during periods of growth. Although the businesses represented were diverse, the challenges were remarkably similar. As organisations grow,

Building Great Teams Starts with Better Conversations By Elisia Coetzee, Director of Strategic HR Australia and a highly experienced Human Resources and Industrial Relations specialist One of the things I enjoy most about facilitating roundtable discussions is that no matter how much experience there is in the room, everyone walks away with a different perspective. As the facilitator, I might guide the discussion, but I always leave having learned something