In this special ep, Shirley Chowdhary shares some of the key lessons learned about leadership thanks to the advice from our guests from the past 10 episodes,

These lessons highlight how to succeed in a new industry or team, as well as when being required to step up into positions you have no previous experience in.

Our guests this season spoke about creativity, integrity, entrepreneurship, confidence and so much more. They shared their insights on everything from how they've recovered from trauma to coping through COVID, addressing diversity and inclusions and ideas that can make education, community, politics and the environment better.

The Leadership Lessons is made possible thanks to the excellent support of Salesforce, and has seen Women's Agenda interviewing more than 50 women on how to lead for the critical decade ahead, over the past five seasons. It's produced by Agenda Media, the publisher of Women's Agenda, and engineered by our Allison Ho.

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Mel was born into family violence and throughout much of her youth. As such, she had a front-row seat to unhealthy and abusive relationships.

As the final guest for Season Five of The Leadership Lessons, Mel talks about the shameful epidemic of domestic and family violence that exists in Australia, and her personal experiences that have propelled her to create change for others.

Mel is now a specialist in Hapkido, a Korean form of martial arts, and has two Australian titles under her belt. She’s also the founder of the KYUP! Project, an organisation she started to empower young Australians, raise their standards and champion their safety and wellbeing.

The KYUP! Project runs workshops all over Australia, in schools, communities and workplaces, aiming to end the cycle of violence at a grassroots level.

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If you are in immediate danger, call 000.

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And as she explains, cancelling a concert had never been an option. Like most musicians, she’s always lived with an ethos of “the show must go on”.

She's the latest to join The Leadership Lessons, bringing a unique perspective to leadership in Australia, and one that follows a challenging period in live music given COVID restrictions and continued uncertainty for the arts.

Vänskä currently plays a Stradivarius violin at the Australian Chamber Orchestra. There are only two of these instruments in Australia. The violin she plays was built in 1726 by Antonio Stradivari, who made about 2000 instruments over his lifetime, out of which only about 600 have survived.

She speaks with host Shirley Chowdhary, sharing her unique global perspective and why not have a country she feels is "home" gives her a sense of freedom.

And she explains why every child should have the opportunity to play an instrument.

You can read more on Satu Vänskä here.

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Shelley Cable says she never planned to be a Chief Executive Officer at the age of 24, but that’s exactly what happened when she was appointed CEO of Generation One at the Minderoo Foundation two years ago.

In this week’s episode of The Leadership Lessons, Cable tells Shirley Chowdhary what the experience has been like, how it happened, and what she's learning along the way.

A proud Nyoongar woman, Cable says her parents, who met working in a bank and had an “entrepreneurial streak about them”, instilled a love of business and finance in her. She also says she grew up in an environment that gave her an “inner confidence” which means she doesn’t get easily intimated by challenges that come her way at her work.

Cable explains that she’s steadfastly focused on the primary objective of Generation One, which is to help close the employment gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians in one generation.

Some excellent tips in this ep once again.

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She's launched a number of key campaigns, including 2020's  #IStandForRespect campaign, signed by over 220 CEO’s who have pledged to take a stand against gendered harassment and violence and stamp out sexual harassment in their workplaces.

Her work comes from a place of passion. As she tells Shirley Chowdhary she's long been obsessed with fairness as well as diversity and gender eqaulity.

And she's constantly agitating for change, which makes her such a strong leader for sharing just how to "get comfortable with being difficult" .

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But she's now an independent MP, and the only member of Federal Parliament with a background in midwifery.

And she still feels excitement every time her name is mentioned in the chamber.

Speaking with host Shirley Chowdhary, Haines is full of leadership wisdom and ideas on how to make your way in the world with passion, integrity and heart.

She explains how her desire to be an active and useful member of her rural community-led her down the unexpected path of politics.

And she opens up about the process of getting elected, and why she’s so passionate about issues of climate change, integrity, and making our

democracy work for everyone.

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As such, she urges women to highlight and appreciate the experience they have, particularly after returning from a career break.

She shares these insights alongside her daughter Daisy Turnbull, in this special mother-daughter episode of The Leadership Lessons, hosted by Shirley Chowdhary.

Together, they discuss more on their careers and what they've learnt about leadership along the way, offering excellent tips for all of us.

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Speaking with host Shirley Chowdhary, Madison also shares why she's using her platform as an athlete with a disability to shape a better and more inclusive future for others in sport.

“It excites me, and it also stresses me out a great deal. It definitely is a responsibility that I take very, very seriously,” says on the podcast. “I remember growing up and seeing Louise Sauvage, and she was the only person that looked like me.

“There just weren't many people who look like me and I'm very aware that there still aren't that many and so I understand the impact that you can have when that spotlight isn't shared as evenly as it should be.”

Join us for another conversation that will leave you knowing more about leadership, inclusion and what it takes to get to the top.

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Both Sales and Crabb are two of Australia’s most high-profile political journalists, but away from their day jobs, they don’t take themselves too seriously. They love to laugh, talk about the latest TV shows, and poke fun at each other.

For a decade, Sales has been the anchor of the ABC’s flagship current affairs program 7.30. Crabb, meanwhile, has often graced our television screens with her political commentary and as the host of shows like Kitchen Cabinet and Ms Represented.

The pair are close friends and have hosted a wildly popular podcast together for years, Chat 10 Looks 3, where they’ve built a close-knit community of (mostly) women, who openly share stories about their lives, books, TV, and cooking in a private Facebook group.

They've also just released Well Hello: Meanderings from the World of Chat 10 Looks 3, and refreshingly candid about their friendship, with Annabel saying the beauty of their podcasting and writing partnership is that it doesn’t feel like work.

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But it's been no regular path to the top. Jackson-Pulver was homeless at the age of fourteen after leaving home to escape abuse. After meeting an outreach nun, she was advised to get into nursing, because at the time it was a hospital-based training program and you were able to live at a nurse’s home while you trained. It was there she was given a room with a door that could lock, that she said changed everything.

A proud Wiradjuri woman, she’s also on the executive of OzSAGE, a group of independent experts that are not beholden to government or

companies, and are able to provide the very best advice to the public. She’s passionate about communicating health information, and at the moment, is

focusing on getting the message out that vaccinations for COVID-19 are safe and effective.

She speaks with Shirley Chowdhary, sharing her incredible story to get to the position she's in now and her advice to others who fear they may not be on the "traditional" path to their ambitions.

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That's why authenticity matters, alongside building strong relationships and the best team you can get to fill your own knowledge gaps.

With all of that, you can go into areas you never thought possible, and solve challenges that have long been experienced by women but too often ignored and overlooked.

In Nicole's case, that area is health tech and reproductive health, given the company she founded Kin Fertility, which offers an express pill subscription and delivery service.

Nicole speaks to Shirley Chowdhary for the first episode of Seasons Five of The Leadership Lessons, the Women's Agenda series on how to lead for the future ahead. She explains the idea behind Kin, how she brought it to life, and the leadership principles and ideas that have supported her work.

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This week, our host Shirley Chowdhary speaks about two overarching themes that have come through in the episodes this season, including how women have navigated challenges they’ve faced, like discrimination, and what our guests believe leadership should look like in the decade ahead.

“Often, we can underestimate what the world looks like from the perspective of another,” Shirley Chowdhary said, in reflection of this season.

“What does it feel like to experience the world as a First Nations woman? As a woman from a culturally or linguistically diverse background? From the perspective of a woman who lives on or below the poverty line? Or even as a woman trying to lead a business or an idea in our modern world?”

You'll hear from a diverse range of leaders in this episode, all sharing inspiring and critical tips for navigating the path ahead.

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In every episode, we hear incredible and inspiring advice that everyone can learn something from.

This week, host Shirley Chowdhary shares some highlights from season four, featuring words of wisdom and chance CEOs, entrepreneurs, activists, change-makers and others.

This is part one of our wrap of season four. In both parts, you'll hear great gems of advice you can start applying to your own work and life, and whatever it is you lead. Women featured include Mikaela Jade, Jonty Low, Kristy Chong, Nina Manson-Bone, Professor Raina McIntyre, Wendy McCarthy and many more.

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And business is absolutely booming, with demand for her products lifting and seeing the brand accelerate fast into the long-held spaces of the beauty brand giants.

Chuter, who was born and grew up in Nigeria and then spent a decade of her young adult life in Australia, tells host Shirley Chowdhary how she built the business and why, including her big move from the corporate world in order to follow what she saw as her purpose in redefining this industry.

"I wanted to create this space where everybody was proud to be themselves. I wanted to create this beautiful rebellion. And it was a rebellion of love. It was an uprising to actually go: we determine our worth," she says.

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But Wendy concedes that she never thought she'd "have a career" but would rather have a job -- so she couldn't believe her luck at graduating from university and going on to become a teacher, yet still didn't expect it to go beyond that.

For her daughter Sophie, things were very different -- she says she always expected to have a career, and she could see the opportunities she had that weren't available to the women who came before her.

But there's still so much work to be done advocating for women's rights, which is what makes this team so powerful.

Together, they've participated in campaigns and rallies. And they've particularly benefited from, and seen the value of, mentoring, which led them to establish their own mentoring business.

They speak to host Shirley Chowdhary in this special episode that will leave you understanding the power of mother-daughter relationships and just how much work and change can be achieved in a couple of generations.

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The idea for period-proof undies came to her when she was on maternity leave after having her second child. She was training for a marathon; her period had not long returned, and she was experiencing some light bladder leakage.

“On one of those training runs I realised the options available to me and to many other women, were pretty uncomfortable, irritating and didn’t give me a lot of dignity,” Kristy tells host Shirley Chowdhary on the latest episode of The Leadership Lessons.

So she invented an entirely new product category: washable products to support any kind of leakage women experience. Now running a global business after years of investigating the tech and science behind how to make these undies and other garments work, she's reducing the waste associated with pads and tampons and transforming how we think about our standard bodily functions.

In this ep, she describes how she leads with empathy, how she's supporting her staff and how they're taking their products internationally to transform the lives of women and girls everywhere.

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These are some of the questions and more Shirley Chowdhary discusses with Nina Mapson Bone this week, the Managing Director of the recruitment firm, Beaumont People.

The firm is doing things differently, and the results are highlighting the great results that can come from putting the needs of your people first.

It introduced a four-day work week prior to the pandemic, using set guidelines for productivity. They also recently introduced gender neutral paid parental leave policies as well as other initiatives that support it in being family-friendly.

They are at the cutting edge of the future of work, which is why this conversation is essential listening for anyone managing people over the critical decade ahead.

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She’s given her time for television and radio, and been quoted in countless articles about COVID-19.

But her knowledge and the truth she shares is not always popular, and Professor MacIntyre cites having a very thick skin as aiding her.

In this latest episode of The Leadership Lessons, Professor MacIntyre shares some fascinating insights into her career and the work she does with host Shirley Chowdhary, and why it's so essential now and into the decade ahead. She also speaks about the unpopularity of speaking truth to power -- and why sticking to your guns is so essential.

You can read more on Professor MacIntyre here.

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It's at AAP where she's making a new mark, using her passion and eclectic career-to-date (she was once a singer songwriter) to support and build the news wire that underpins Australian democracy.

Ensuring trusted, unbiased news is at the fingertips of every Australian is one of Jonty Low’s passions. And as she tells Shirley Chowdhary in the latest episode of The Leadership Lessons, we can’t afford to lose it.

Jonty explains how she's doing work she's passionate about, in a career she never planned and in one she's made possible thanks to saying yes to big opportunities.

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She joins Shirley Chowdhary for this week's ep of The Leadership Lessons, highlighting how her own story shows the possibilities in pursuing the best ideas, regardless of your background or previous story.

For Mikaela, the possibility was to use augmented reality to tell Indigenous stories. Still working as a park ranger when she came up with the idea, she knew there had to be better way to share traditional, Indigenous perspectives at cultural sites.

“My heart just broke every time we put a metal, aluminum sign in the ground in front of these cultural places that are so significant to the community that live there, and whose country it was,” she says.

“But also, to all the visitors that were coming. The signs would say things like: “This is an Aboriginal site” and that would be it…not incorporating the traditional perspectives of the site at all.”

Mikaela is a proud Cabrogal woman, had the opportunity to see augmented reality for the first time at a university event, and it’s spurred her on to create to use the cutting-edge technology.

“What if we could use this technology where instead of reading a sign when you go to a place, couldn’t you just put your phone up and an elder could appear in holographic format and tell you the right story, for the right reasons, in the right language, at the right place, at the right time?”

Based in Kakadu at the time, Jade tells Shirley that everyone thought she was mad to pursue what then seemed to be such an outland-ish idea. “I had no idea was I was doing! No idea what I was doing from a tech perspective."

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Having survived an abusive relationship at a young age while living in Pakistan, the country she grew up in, Mariam arrived in Australia with just $300 in her pocket. Now, she is driven by her desire to help women achieve independence, so they can live their best lives.

"My why is that I want my four nieces to have a better life than I did,” Mariam tells Shirley Chowdhary in this week’s episode of The Leadership Lessons.

“I don’t want them to be sexually assaulted. I don’t want them to date abusive partners and stay in abusive relationships. I don’t want them to accept abuse at the hands of their fathers and brothers, because they’ve been taught blood is thicker than water or whatever the fuck women are taught these days.

“I was constantly straddling that line between security and going back to a life of violence because I had never learned how the money system works."

This is a positive and powerful episode that will leave you knowing that the future really is in excellent hands.

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Madison Howarth, Charlotte Ryan, and Bronte Charles met a number of years ago as scholars at the GO Foundation, an Indigenous education organisation founded by Adam Goodes and Michael O’Loughlin.

Now all at university, each has different interests and perspectives on life, but what’s clear from this conversation with Shirley is that they all draw a special strength from their culture and heritage. It’s what keeps them going in the face of adversity and pushes them forward each day.

And while still very young, they have very good ideas about what the future of leadership should look like, and what will enable all of us to succeed in the decade ahead.

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Welcome to Season 4 of The Leadership Lessons! And a huge introduction to our new host, Shirley Chowdhary, who takes over from Kate Mills' excellent work over our first three seasons.

This week, we speak with Turia, a talented athlete and former mining engineer with a life-altering story that most Australians would be familiar with.

Turia was caught in a raging grassfire during a 100km ultra-marathon in 2011. She suffered full thickness burns to the majority of her body and underwent more than 200 medical procedures. She would then go on to spend more than two years in hospital fighting to recover.

Turia harnessed her harrowing experience to become a spokesperson for self-love, contentment, courage, confidence and resilience. She describes herself on her website as somebody who "makes cool stuff that helps people get happier."

“I believe that we’ve all got the inner resources to be able to cope with whatever life throws our way,” she says, adding that “a lot of people just never get tested so they might not know that about themselves yet," she tells Shirley.

Take a listen. Leave a review. And check out more about Turia here.

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She describes some key examples in this episode, noting how it can change entire lives and career trajectories.

And she's experienced such change first hand, having taken part in an International Study Tour with Aurora, in which Indigenous university students are awarded scholarships to attend 6 of the 10 best global universities, including Oxford, Cambridge and Stanford.

She met Indigenous scholars who reshaped everything she had been socialised to know about education. “When you see Aboriginal people before you who have walked that path, it’s so powerful”, she says, adding “you got to be extremely proud and celebrate who you were as an Aboriginal person but also be academic.”

Leila describes all of this and so much more in the latest episode of The Leadership Lessons, our podcast on how to lead for the critical decade ahead, made possible thanks to the support of Salesforce.

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But as she shares more on in this episode, after years of glamour, fashion, publishing and traveling the world, the sparkle of the job started to dwindle.

“I first imagined being the editor of Elle at 14 and I think that that dream served me well over the course of my career, but by the time I was five or six years in, I was definitely not that girl anymore,” she said.

Cullen outlines how that now, as the editor-in-chief of Jones Magazine and the mother of four boys, she’s discovered she can’t be everything to everyone.

She shares what she's learnt so far across her massive career, in line with her incredible new book: Semi-Gloss

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As she tells Kate Mills in the latest episode of The Leadership Lessons, she never had a female lecturer, so it was hard to see herself in that kind of role.

 “I think partly because I didn’t have any female lecturers. I didn’t see any female leaders in engineering, so I never thought I would actually end up as a lecturer.”

Years later, Dr Allen, who has a multidisciplinary background as an electrochemist and engineer, is now a lecturer in the school of engineering at The University of Newcastle. She’s a recognised expert in carbon capture and utilisation, and her research is currently focused on a carbon negative manufacturing process, driven by renewables.

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She is also the first Australian woman to compete at both a summer and winter Olympics, as both a hurdler and in bobsled.

More recently, she's becoming known for a different kind of career, having started work as a doctor.

In this episode, she discusses her latest massive career change, as well as what's behind her ambition and drive to try new things.

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She shares on The Leadership Lessons how she made her way to the top in the male-dominated worlds of tech and finance.

She talks about putting your hand up, about the importance of diversity in the boardroom and so much more in this episode.

And she shares some of her best tips learnt from the C-suite: including a 20-year career at Macquarie Bank, where she held the roles of Chief Information Officer and Chief Operating Officer, as well as time as Managing Director and CEO at BNP Paribas Securities Services.

Gail speaks with host Kate Mills, for the latest in season three of The Leadership Lessons, our podcast made possible thanks to the support of Salesforce.

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At age 16, Suzanne left school due to some extenuating family circumstances, and never had the opportunity to be educated at university. She made do in some secretarial and admin work, before deciding to follow what had always been her dream; joining the police force.

She landed in a startup at 21, and into the world of technology.

She knows the value of mentorship -- and particularly sponsorship, as well as the need to address equal pay and to keep course correcting as a leader.

Suzanne tells Kate Mills about some of the most fulfilling work she has done at Adobe centres around improving outcomes for the employees she leads. When she joined three and a half years ago, Adobe had just achieved gender pay parity globally.

“Since then, we’ve maintained it – because it’s not a point in time that have you gender pay parity, it’s something that you have to constantly monitor, and check and asses and course correct.”

Over the last 18 months, the tech giant has also rolled out “opportunity parity”, which Suzanne also explains.

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She took on the giants, receiving a multi-million dollar payout, but most importantly, a public apology.

Her story has gone on to be depicted by Nicole Kidman -- and Gretchen has also started an organisation Lift Our Voices, looking to enable more women to speak out about what they experienced, especially after being gagged by nondisclosure agreements.

“The people who don’t have the national platform and the resources that I have. That’s why I’m doing all this work, because it’s a pervasive epidemic of silencing people.”

She shares what she knows about courage with host Kate Mills and how things can change so we can end sexual harassment for good.

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It's key to balancing each person's strengths and weaknesses on a sporting team -- but it's also something that can apply elsewhere in life. Indeed, it's key to leadership.

Meg speaks to Kate Mills for this latest episode!

She shares how she came to captain the side, having previously had no leadership experience. And what she's quickly learnt in the role.

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So in this episode, to celebrate the launch of Season Three, we've pulled out some of their best leadership lessons, packaging them together to offer a taste of what this podcast offers -- and a reminder on some of their excellent ideas and advice.

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And Gretel Killeen is certainly someone who has done that.

Television host, voice artist, stand-up comedian, actor, journalist, social commentator, painter, and author. Gretel Killeen is many things, and her career, often in the public eye, has seemingly never stood still.

Many of us strive for career diversity, and it’s something Killeen has managed to do over the years, transforming herself and her work, to become one of Australia’s most recognisable faces.

As she tells Kate Mills in the latest episode of The Leadership Lessons, she sees herself, first and foremost, as an artist.

She shares more on success, how she's managing to keep changing her career and so much more in this latest episode.

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She's combining multiple passions and dreams -- and making it all work while seeing the sports she love and the women who play them finally getting the recognition they deserve.

She wants to see a world where we no longer talk "female athletes" but rather "athletes" and describes just how far women have come in sport.

Check out this latest episode of The Leadership Lessons, including how Ash manages her heavy load, and how her life has change since she became a mother.

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None of us are invincible, no matter what our achievements and acolades. No matter how well we maintain our physical selves, we also need to reserve time and space for our mental health, and seek help where neeeded.

Layton’s career in netball is up there with the best. She’s a Commonwealth Games gold medallist, and two-time World Cup winner. In 2019, she made the switch from netball to AFLW, playing for the Collingwood Magpies. After years of feeling like she never quite fitted in, Layton says joining AFLW was like coming home.

That switch also came after a lifechanging period earlier on in 2017, when Layton took six months away from netball to overcome some mental health challenges. Depression was a reality that crept up on her over the years she spent at the highest level of netball, and it wasn’t something she took stock of at first.

She speaks with Kate Mills for this latest episode of The Leadership Lessons, our podcast supported by Salesforce on the leadership we need for the critical decade ahead.

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Along the way, she managed to topple a former Prime Minister and is now determined to represent her electorate by putting climate action on the agenda in parliament.

She finds that her combination of careers, and the skills learnt within them, that have enabled her to do the work she's doing now.

And that includes working to end the climate wars in Australia: to see this country taking real action on climate change.

She highlights the need to keep the pressure on policymakers, particularly the government, to commit to what's needed.

Steggall speaks with Kate Mills in this episode of The Leadership Lessons, made possible thanks to the support of Salesforce, where we examine the leadership that's needed for the critical decade ahead.

She describes how so much of her character was built in sport, and the lessons within for all areas of leadership.

"I started ski racing at 4. I was very young. But I was always one of those really competitive kids where I gave it 110%. I trained really hard. And I really put in. I listened to the coaches. I don't like cutting corners. I like doing the full sets, the full reps, everything that needs to be done. I never took no for an answer in the sense of anyone telling me what my limitations were."

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They're the leaders who embraced something else, particularly diversity and inclusion.

Mathuri Santhi-Morgan shares why this is such a game-changer, speaking with host Kate Mills on how to lead for the critical decade ahead.

Mathuri is the founder of GIRLS (Global, Intercultural, Resilient, Loud and Strong) Rising Up, a movement to give intercultural women and girls visibility in a media landscape that so often leaves them underrepresented and ignored.

Through GIRLS Rising Up, Mathuri works to change the narrative, telling the stories of intercultural women who’ve overcome adversity and are doing amazing things with their life.

“Where we need to get to is normalising the concept of diversity, because diversity is society,” she says.

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Senator Jenny McAllister has seen this first hand: especially serving as a Labor Senator for NSW since 2015.

She discusses the impact of quotas on politics, and so much more. Particularly looking at how getting more women to the decision-making table gets more issues impacting women heard.

There’s no uniform or singular way that women lead differently to men, it’s more that having gender equality in an organisation means there is space for women to adopt all sort of different leadership styles, she says.

Senator McAllister shares her leadership journey and ideas with our host Kate Mills, for the latest episode of The Leadership Lessons, supported by Salesforce.

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Dr Stephanie Dowrick shares this vision with host Kate Mills, on The Leadership Lessons podcast.

She's a businessperson, bestselling author, social justice activist, psychotherapist, and an ordained interfaith minister.

And co founder and managing director of The Women’s Press in London.

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In this episode, she shares with host Kate Mills how the Coalition came about after she spent four years as a member of the UN Secretary General’s Global Education First Initiative Youth Advocacy Group. In gaining a global perspective on education, she could so clearly see that back in Australia, there wasn’t a strong youth voice on Indigenous rights to education.

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She became a lawyer, after first working as a teacher, because she felt a pressing sense of obligation to her people.

In 2010, Reid was selected as Australia’s Indigenous Female Youth Delegate to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, where she was elected by the delegates to become the secretariat of the World Indigenous Youth Caucus.

When asked what she thinks about her own leadership, Teela tells Kate Mills that the idea of it sits a little bit uncomfortably with her. As she explains, in the Aboriginal community, leaders are elders, so she wouldn’t consider herself one.

Instead, she’s just trying to channel her anger, frustration, and glimmers of hope into advocacy and conversations that will make a difference for First Nations people.

“I’m not settling for the status quo; I’m trying to create a world that is fairer and a world that is prepared to dismantle racism within its institutions.”

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Her story is one of untold resilience, and it’s one she admits she probably never would have believed if you’d told her several years ago.

She shares her story with Kate Mills on The Leadership Lessons, and how it's shaped her leadership going into the decade ahead.

“I’d like to see a lot more incidental inclusion of disability. For it to become less of something you really have to think about and push and encourage. For it to be a normal thing to do.”

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She spent more than two decades at Microsoft, initially starting in a junior position before finishing up as the tech giant's Australia country head. Last year, she was appointed to lead Salesforce in Australia, before later expanding that role to lead ASEAN.

So how did she make it happen? In this episode, she shares more on the journey. including how being upfron about her career ambitions has helped -- and is something that she would advise other people, rejecting the idea that it may sound arrogant or like you lack humility.

She shares with Kate Mills more on how major companies -- and their leaders -- can be forces for good on major progressive issues, as well as much more in this wide-ranging episode.

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She grew up playing a variety of different sports, and found a deep passion for rugby league. Watching the NRL was one of the ways she connected with her family and being an Eels supporter was a major part of her family life.

Women's sport has experienced massive growth in the past seven years, thanks to women like Mary advocated from the sidelines, and it's place in the future will be vital in determining community connections, getting more social issues heard and generally promoting healthier bodies and minds.

Mary talks to Kate Mills on the latest episode of The Leadership Lessons, a Women’s Agenda podcast supported by Salesforce, the growth of women’s sport over the past seven years has totally changed her relationship with men’s sport.

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Shirley's currently the CEO of the GO Foundation, an organisation founded by former AFL stars Adam Goodes and Michael O’Loughlin.

She believes right now is an opportunity to turn the dial, if we chose to take it.

“This an opportunity for us to reset and course correct on environment, on disadvantage, on equity, on Indigenous engagement and reconciliation,” she tells host Kate Mills.

Staying humble. Being collaborative and inclusive are essential lessons Shirley says she's learnt.

Find out more by taking a listen, and check out our profile on Shirley on our website.

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And she says it's essential that we push to set the record straight.

A Yuin woman, Sonja is the newly appointed CEO of the Law Society of NSW and the Chair of the GO Foundation.

In this episode, she describes her "baptism of fire" in school. It was where she learnt to deal with bad behaviour, racism, and unconscious and blatant bias. As she's become more senior in her law career, she says the attitudes from other people haven't gone away, but she has become more equipped to deal with it.

"The thing that I found most challenging is confronting people’s negative biases and assumptions and perceptions that they have about Aboriginal people and what we can do," Sonja says.

"That we could be the CEO of the Law Society, Chair of the GO Foundation or whatever it is that we aspire to be."

She shares more on challenging assumptions with host of The Leadership Lessons, Kate Mills.

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Jo Masters has been there, starting in a new role and figuring things out as she goes. It's aided her career and seen her build a significant media profile commenting on some of the most important economic issues of our time.

Jo is currently EY Oceania’s Chief Economist, and has spent her career dabbling between economics, and finance strategy, trading and FX Sales.

Jo covers a lot in this episode, including her passion for breaking economics down and making it accessible for everyone.

Also some of the lessons she's learnt about the 'grey area' in economics, and why it's ok to keep asking questions.

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There was an audience of 700 people, and looking back, Kirsty admits that she probably wasn’t quite ready for such a big gig, and “barely had any jokes” to offer.

She got up and did it. And it changed her life.

And taught her the biggest lesson that makes a leader: to seize the opportunity when it comes up, regardless of how terrifying it seems.

Kirsty Webeck shares that and other lessons on the latest episode of The Leadership Lessons.

She speaks with our host Kate Mills.

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She has a LOT of experience in leadership, and a lot to say on the need for diversity that goes beyond gender, as well as for kindness, empathy and honesty in leadership.

And, importantly right now, extreme transparency about what's really going on. Just telling people to "be kind" is not going to cut it.

Kirstin shares her career journey and what she's learnt over the years, as well as her best tips and advice on how to lead for the decade ahead.

She speaks with our host Kate Mills.

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Have a wide ranging career that gets significant work done.

Electrical engineer Dr Raji Ambikairajah, who has held a number of CEO positions across tech startups, finance and the not-for-profit sector, shares how purpose and passion has enabled her wide ranging career.

She believes right now, during the pandemic, is the opportunity to create better systems and build a better world, particularly for women in the workplace.

There's much to learn once again in this episode of The Leadership Lessons, as Raji speaks with host Kate Mills on how to lead for the critical decade ahead.

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As she shares in her conversation with Kate Mills, leadership can come to you unexpectedly. And at an age and time when you may not think you're ready.

Brianna is now the CEO of Foodbank Australia, aiming to fight Australia’s hunger and sourcing food to people across the country who need it. As a working parent, she's also proud of the organisation’s culture of flexibility which she says has been a significant enabler for her success.

In this wide-ranging conversation, she shares what's worked for her leadership and why -- offering some excellent lessons for all of us.

You can read more on this interview here.

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Listen to her excellent conversation on leadership with Kate Mills: sharing the leadership traits that matter, the need to get young people heard, the value of kindness and so much more.

Yasmin is just 21, but her list of leadership credentials is so extensive it’s almost impossible to image how she’s managed to fit it all in since leaving high school not so many years ago.

She’s the Chair of the Victorian Government’s Youth Congress that represents over a million young Australians, she’s led the global business development of 180 Degrees Consulting. She is Plan International’s Youth Ambassador, the newly appointed non-executive board director at Oz Harvest and has represented Australian youth at APEC and the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

You can read more on this interview here.

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She says we need so many more women at the top, but urges those chasing such ambitions to stay optimistic, but also be aware of what's ahead as "Sexism and its manifestations are universal.”

In this chat with Kate Mills, she also shares what's she's learnt from other political leaders including Theresa May, Hillary Clinton, Jacinda Ardern, Erna Solberg, Michelle Bachalet and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

These women come from all around the world, some well known in the West, and some not. But what is revealed, is that despite some key differences in their situations– for example, Bachelet, who served as the President of Chile, was imprisoned and tortured under the Pinochet regime – there was so much about their lived experiences that was similar.

“There was a great deal of focus on appearance, on family structures, a sense that they were on a tightrope – if they came across as too strong, too tough, people would react adversely to that. But if they came across as too caring, too nurturing, people who go ‘she’s far too weak to lead the country’,” Gillard says.

During the pandemic, Gillard says we have seen a lot of the “strongman style of leadership”. Blustering leadership, she called it, where leaders don’t care about the facts and will happily claim that black is white, and pink is purple.

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Through conversations with prominent female leaders, we'll examine how to lead on the critical decade ahead.

Because if 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that female leadership is more critical than ever.

To cement real progress and build the future we envision, we need more dynamic women with purposeful agendas and unwavering drive.

We need leadership lessons from those we trust to guide us through.

The Leadership Lessons is an Agenda Media production, executive produced by Tarla Lambert & Angela Priestley.

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