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What We Can Learn From Hyundai - Are They Disrupting Tesla?
Tesla has changed the automotive industry, and some competitors are catching up. Telsa proved that electric cars could be for everyone....
Mar 24, 20222 min read
Directors - What Should Be Within Your Cyber Strategy?
In December 2021, changes were made to Australian Directors Standards, requiring clear stepping stones that demonstrate an ongoing uplift...
Mar 17, 20223 min read
Solving Over Selling - Small Business Learnings
My wife and I wake on most mornings at six am and visit our favourite coffee shop, as do many other people. Over the past three years,...
Mar 10, 20222 min read
How In-Person Events Have Changed From "Talking At" To "Talking With" People - Keynote Speaker
As we open up, events are moving back in person, and my workshops are too. Here are some reflections on switching from on-screen to...
Mar 8, 20222 min read
Being a "Better" Leader During Uncertain Times
Here are some reflections from a range of conversations with leaders over the past couple of months as they looked into a new year....
Mar 3, 20223 min read
10 Types of CYBER Tech Directors Should Know
The implication for Australian company directors is they now appear more cyber-liable. Directors can no longer turn a blind eye or cite...
Feb 24, 20222 min read
Pointless Work in a Digital Ecosystem is Still Pointless
Last week, an organisation contacted me enquiring about what technology would enhance their customers' experience. It is similar to...
Feb 17, 20221 min read


$40 Million of Ransomware Paid for a Cyber-Attack - as a Non-Tech Exec, What Can You Do?
In March 2022, CNA Financial in the US paid a record $40 million in ransomware for a cyber-attack due to malware linked to a Russian...
Feb 10, 20222 min read


Outlook ... CYBER IQ, Meaningful Leadership, and What is Digital Now?
There is so much going on and here is some of what I am thinking about. CYBER IQ Cyber-attacks continue to increase, “cyber partisans”...
Feb 4, 20222 min read


BIG John – My Dad’s Legacy Lives On
As my close friends refer to him, my dad, BIG John, passed away on Friday the 21 January 2022 at 9.49 pm. Dad was born in 1938 at Benella...
Jan 28, 20222 min read
Our End of Year Message and Your Gift - ONE Girl
Season greetings... while working at Microsoft within International IT, I learned how the Gates Foundation through education was ending...
Dec 21, 20211 min read
The Nuances in Assessing Critical Systems, Networks and Data for Cybersecurity
Cyber-attacks are asymmetric in nature, with hackers having low risk, defenders high risks and an impossibly large surface area to...
Dec 16, 20212 min read
Cyber-Attackers "Greatest Hits" and How to Prepare
Cyber-attacks continue to increase, and the organisations being targeted are changing. Forty-three per cent of all Cyber-attacks are now...
Dec 9, 20212 min read
How We Can All Be More Cyber Educated
Many people are Cyber aware, but not Cyber educated, that is why I completed a 100 course with Harvard remotely on the topic! Here are...
Dec 2, 20212 min read
The Three Optimistic Strategic Initiatives, Plus a Non-Negotiable
I am offering 60-minute consultations to organisations to discuss their strategic initiatives (more about this below); feel free to...
Nov 25, 20212 min read
What Can We Learn From Australia’s Most Popular Political Leader?
‘Public service is about serving all the people, including the ones who are not like you.’ – Constance Wu In 2019, while appearing on the...
Nov 18, 20212 min read


What is the Metaverse? What is Facebook's involvement?
‘The next major technological platform for creative expansion of the mind will be cyberspace, or more specifically the Metaverse, a...
Nov 12, 20213 min read
The MACRO Consequences of Our Low Level of Trust?
"If you want to change the world, the go home and love your family." - Mother Teresa Our interconnected, changing world has seen more...
Nov 5, 20212 min read
The benefits beyond emissions for NET ZERO (originally published in CEO WORLD)
'Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable.’ – Lord Robertson The Australian...
Oct 29, 20212 min read


It is freedom eve, why does our family have anxiety?
Melbourne is almost out of lockdown, but I can't help but feel that some of us will be still in it. I am a positive person. I am that...
Oct 21, 20213 min read
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