The launch and rise of TinyBeans with co-founder SJ Kurtini
Women on Boards I Making it Real
Release Date: 04/27/2020
Investing in human capital and improving diversity with Ian Pollard
Women on Boards I Making it Real
Ian Pollard joins Claire in today’s episode. Since the age of 25, Ian has served on countless boards and has passionately coached senior executives in roles of leadership for more than 20 years. His deepest single interest however, is how people, teams and organisations grow, starting with the individual. Hear why Ian thinks Australia needs to improve its diversity stance and why corporations should be investing in their human capital.
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Owning Your Story: How a mentor gave Carmel the courage to own her own story and share her secrets
Women on Boards I Making it Real
With more than 40 years’ experience in the marketing sector and 15 years as a Non-Executive Director, Carmel Macmillan’s CV is impressive, but it is the lived experience of caring for her son with many extraordinary abilities that has shaped her value proposition. In this episode, Carmel shares her journey, how WOB helped her to confidently articulate her story and what boards are really looking for.
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Affordable Housing: Creating respectful unrest "housing is an economic issue affecting all Australians"
Women on Boards I Making it Real
Robert Pradolin's message is clear: housing is not a social issue — it’s an economic issue.
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Challenge yourself as a leader: Aboriginality, diversity and executive coaching
Women on Boards I Making it Real
Claire speaks with Arabella Douglas, who has traditional ties to far North NSW and South East QLD. A specialist in diversity and indigenous insights into social and economic value, Arabella has served on boards for more than 10 years. Her heart work though is Currie Country, a cousin consortium consisting of her large extended family of 3000 people. Hear why Arabella thinks it’s important to steer away from your C Suite strengths in the boardroom and why connection to land is not an Aboriginal monopoly.
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How serving has shaped retired brigadier Alison Creagh’s board journey and approach to governance
Women on Boards I Making it Real
Fittingly released on Anzac Day, this podcast is from a fascinating WOBChat we held on 11 November 2020 (WOBChats are our fortnightly online member learning and networking events).
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How Leanne Heywood went from being made redundant to building an ASX portfolio career
Women on Boards I Making it Real
Once upon a time, this full-time NED for various ASX listed companies, worked one week a month in Mongolia in minus 40 degrees when she was the General Manager for Rio Tinto’s Global Copper Concentrate. Today she is often battling 40 degrees heat from her 1600-acre farm in Western NSW. Leanne latched onto the mining industry at a time when it wasn’t common for women and discrimination was overt. Leanne launched her portfolio career through hard work and preparation, and by not taking feedback personall
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Defying All Odds: Increasing female tradies, smashing assumptions and leading with courage
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Crushed by a 600kg horse in 2017 when training to qualify for the World Equestrian Games, doctors told Hacia Atherton she’d never walk again. Four years and 14 operations later, Hacia tells us how she has transformed her trauma into triumph. A CPA, CCO for her family’s manufacturing business, Committee Member for the CPA Australia Emerging Leaders Network and Advisory Board Member for Real Time Learning Australia, Hacia is passionate about increasing female tradies and smashing assumptions
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Education changed the course of my life: Former MP and OAM reveals all
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Ros Kelly, the former MP and OAM, joins Claire this week and shares the intimate story of her upbringing and professional life. Ros was elected the first woman member of the Australian Capital Territory House of Assembly, later became the first Labor woman federal minister in the House of Representatives and the first to give birth while holding office. Hear why it’s important to take opportunities, to know who you are and to choose the right partner, because we all need someone who has our back.
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How to improve board performance and the governance of your organisation
Women on Boards I Making it Real
Have you heard of the Governance Evaluator? If you’re on a Board or a Committee, it’s time you had. In this episode, Claire speaks with Maryanne Puli Vogels, Chair of Timboon and District Healthcare Services, about the Governance Evaluator — an intelligent technology solution with expert governance consultants. By baptism of fire, Maryanne became Chair and without GE, she and her Board would not be able to predict risks, identify gaps, create reports and generate insights for the future of their commu
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How Julie Green moved into board roles and found her core purpose – Membership, rural communities and Greening Australia
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Julie is one of those women who knows, deeply, what she is here to do. In this podcast, Julie shares her story of advising chartered firms in the UK and Australia for 10 years, including Ernst & Young, before changing career paths. She realised her core purpose was to use her financial acumen to promote healthier communities and today serves as NED for RAVC, Greening Australia and Loddon Mallee Waste & Resource Recovery Group Board, among other significant roles.
info_outlineSarah-Jane “S-J” Kurtini and Stephen O'Young founded Tinybeans in 2012. After moving to Australia with her husband and small daughter, SJ built a reputation as a savvy social media strategist while taking on part time work that she could do while her daughter was napping. This led to an introduction to Stephen O’Young.
Stephen had the idea for TinyBeans as he sought to track his second son's developmental milestones. Finding that no one would take him seriously as an Asian male trying to launch an App for children, he was looking for a female business partner with marketing expertise. He outlined his concept to SJ, who was sold on the idea after a 30-minute meeting. And the rest they say is history.
Hear how Stephen and SJ built TinyBeans to have more than three million users, 100+ million memories, App of the Day three times, AND how they learned about governance, drew straws to be on the board, flipped the board and listed on the ASX.
SJ gives a warts and all account of the eight year journey, which saw her move from Australia to New York (which she says was an amazing experience for her family) and now back to Australia's Central Coast, where she is now taking step back and having a six month sabbatical as she ponders her next project.