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    Maddi Keeney at training in Brisbane before the Games, fresh from working at BHP that morning.

    ‘I’m always switched on’: How this Olympic diver balances a job at BHP

    Maddi Keeney gets a second chance at a medal in the 3m springboard from Wednesday night Australian time after heartbreak in the first week of the Games.

    • Hannah Wootton

    July

    The six tips that stuck with 2024’s BOSS Young Executives

    There’s no single route to the top. But a few good habits will help you on your way.

    • Sally Patten
    From left: Gurbaj Pawar, Renee Wootton, Sinead Booth, Chad Burke, Kiria McNamara and Todd Lacey.

    Four traits that stand out among the 2024 BOSS Young Executives

    This year’s BOSS Young Executives have a desire to master the task at hand, collaborate and inspire – and they are tech-savvy.

    • Sally Patten
    From an early age Chad Burke discovered a love of commerce and fast-moving consumer goods

    How this retail executive found his calling in the school playground

    Chad Burke is one of the 2024 BOSS Young Executives. As a teenager, he had a good business selling chocolates and chips to his fellow students.

    • Sally Patten
    Renee Wootton was unsure if she would be able to complete her degree in aerospace engineering.

    This exec wants more than a CEO role. She wants to be an astronaut

    Renee Wootton is one of the 2024 BOSS Young Executives. She works in the fledgling sustainable aviation sector, but her real goal is to go to the International Space Station.

    • Sally Patten
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    Tod Lacey says working as a vacuum salesman taught him “how to connect, and how to sell to people of all different backgrounds and types.”

    From selling vacuum cleaners to running Booking.com in Australia at 33

    Tod Lacey is one of the 2024 BOSS Young Executives. His first proper job was selling vacuum cleaners at a department store in Dunedin on New Zealand’s South Island.

    • Sally Patten

    This top fundie used to peel four sacks of potatoes every Friday

    Ausbil Investment Management’s Paul Xiradis says it’s at the fish market that he probably got involved in markets, understanding how they’re priced and cleared.

    • Sally Patten and Lap Phan
    Gurbaj Pawar moved to Australia with his parents and younger from India when he was 10.

    This young exec wants to make sure his parents’ sacrifice was worth it

    Gurbaj Pawar is one of the 2024 BOSS Young Executives. He is head of strategy and projects at insurance broker network AUB Group.

    • Sally Patten
    Melinda Snowden chairs the audit and risk committees at Megaport and Temple & Webster.

    The secret to joining an ASX 200 board, from two women who succeeded

    Eleven women were appointed to chair S&P/ASX 200 companies between March and June, taking the total to a record 25.

    • Sally Patten

    Why this top lawyer has a nanny

    For KWM chief executive partner Renae Lattey, having home help means that she gets time to herself, as well as time to devote to her family and job. 

    • Ciara Seccombe and Lap Phan

    BCG’s local boss Grant McCabe on why he has taken up pilates

    Boston Consulting Group’s Australian chief, Grant McCabe, says rookie executives should “remove that baggage” about whether they are going to succeed.

    • Lap Phan and Ciara Seccombe

    June

    Danielle Handley, BUPA chief customer and transformation officer, is passionate about the way technology, data and digital continue to enable innovation.

    ‘We need to be champions of other women’

    By the time Danielle Handley arrived at health insurer BUPA, the executive who hired her had left. She had to lead a company transformation without a boss.

    • Sian Powell

    ‘You need to trust your gut’: How to build an empire

    The founder and CEO of MCo Beauty, the winner of the Retail category, knows she is underestimated. It’s what drives her to succeed.

    • Lauren Sams
    Jaki Virtue was drafted in as Soul Patts’ first chief operating officer across its 120-year-plus history in 2023.

    Versatile risk-taker who shines when the going gets tough

    Washington H Soul Pattinson’s Jaki Virtue swears by the power of ‘unknown sponsorships’, as she takes out the Financial Services - Non-banking category.

    • Kanika Sood
    Ingrid Maes, CEO of W23 Global; Tammy Medard, managing director of ANZ’s Institutional in Australia and PNG; Alison Telfer, country head Australasia for UBS Asset Management.

    What’s your best career tip? Award winners share theirs

    Lead with compassion, don’t assume you know all the answers, and play to your strengths: winners in the Women in Leadership Awards share advice that has helped them.

    • Victoria Thieberger
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    Danielle Wood, chairwoman of the Productivity Commission, Tammy Medard, managing director, institutional Australia & PNG at ANZ, Bronwyn Le Grice, CEO and managing director of AND Health, and Jessica Vanderlelie, deputy vice chancellor academic and professor at La Trobe University.

    ‘Inclusion, resilience, empathy’: How modern leadership is changing

    Modern leadership is about more than successfully deploying skills and industry expertise – it strongly encompasses the people side, writes Patricia McKenzie.

    • Patricia McKenzie
    Women in Leadership award winner Danielle Wood.

    The ‘magic and mundane’ leadership style of Danielle Wood

    The chairwoman of the Productivity Commission was selected as the overall winner for her contributions to economic policy and a preparedness to take an unpopular position in key national debates.

    • Sally Patten
    There is a balance between being career advancing and sounding like “The Office” character David Brent.

    There’s nothing funny about LinkedIn’s ‘weird’ makeover

    If the professional social network is now a place for personal posts, why isn’t it funnier?

    • Emma Jacobs
    Stephanie Smith, who was appointed Trade and Investment Commissioner for Greater China when she was just 28. She jokes that she wears glasses because they make her look older.

    She was made a trade leader at 28 and pregnant

    The winner of the Young Leader category in the Women in Leadership awards has honed her leadership skills straddling two vastly different cultures and Australia’s most important trade relationship.

    • Jessica Sier
    UNSW’s Toby Walsh says workers who know how to use AI will replace those who do not.

    Need to get up to speed on gen AI? Here’s how

    Workers who know how to use AI are expected to eventually replace those who do not. Four experts explain how and where to level up your skills.

    • Euan Black

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    Aussie Broadband’s Phil Britt loves a sense of community – in his daily life and at work.

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    Brad Pillinger is one of the country’s top real estate agents.