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Tan Huynh is Co-Founder and CEO of Detexian which is a fast-growing Melbourne cybersecurity startup. Tan’s journey to becoming a startup founder was via a childhood in Vietnam, a career in investment banking in Australia and London and a soul-searching gap year combined with a Master’s degree at Stanford University. We caught up with Tan […]
Anthony Stevens is Co-Founder and CEO of 6clicks, which is a fast-growing startup that has developed a cloud-based technology solution designed to automate and manage risk assessment, risk management and compliance. The critical role Risk Management plays in businesses of all sizes has never been more obvious in light of the pandemic, OH&S issues, and […]
Joseph Healy is very well known in Financial Services and Banking circles both in Australia and internationally. His corporate career, spanning over 35 years, culminated in him leading Australia’s largest business bank as one of the top echelon of leaders in banking in the country. While many (most!) people would be happy with achieving that […]
Tom Dreyfus is Co-Founder and CEO of Josef which is a legal-tech startup, founded in Melbourne, that enables lawyers to easily build and scale their own intuitive legal bots to effectively and efficiently automate the legal workflow between lawyers and their clients. Josef has successfully grown its customer base globally and is now used by […]
Mark Armstrong is the Co-Founder of ASX listed RMA Global Limited which is the parent company of Australia’s number one real estate agent ratings and statistics website RateMyAgent. The business is a Melbourne success story that is now also building fast into the US and NZ markets. We caught up with Mark late last year, […]
I have been working with a few founders who are having challenges in motivating and engaging some of their team members while they are working from home. And they have been surprised as these are the team members who are usually quite high energy. So lately I have been talking with them about where their team members […]
Our Brains during Co-Vid19. Neuropsychologists know that all human brains like stability, predictability and feeling secure, this enables our brains to run with maximum efficiency. Yet in our current context, our brains are on hyper alert status and this feels, in the body, as if you are on edge. Three things that we are all facing right […]
Priming Your Brain for Productive WFH during the ISO Age! By Virginia Henningsen, Psychologist for Founders. I guess like me, you may have been reading about some tips to help people work productively at home, things like structuring your day, getting dressed for work, and working from a specific and regular place in your home. And […]
People leave managers, they don’t leave companies. If you feel this is true, your hunch is supported by a study completed by Gallup across 2.5 million manager-led teams around the world, where they measured the engagement of 27 million employees. Incredibly, this study reported, “that one in two employees have left their job to get away from their manager […]
No one would deny that your career is one of the important things in your life. It provides a source of income and financial security and gives you something worthwhile to do with your time every day. It can provide a feeling of self-worth, development, and progression in life while you are making a contribution to […]