Why ANZ’s Maile Carnegie told 200 bankers she was having a hot flush
Explaining tampons to men early in her career is just part of the reason the woman who could be ANZ’s next CEO is happy to get personal about menopause.
In 2022, Maile Carnegie, who runs ANZ’s Australian retail banking business, told a room of 200 of her colleagues that she was having a hot flush.
Presenting at a town hall meeting during the initial stages of ANZ’s $4.9 billion acquisition of Suncorp, Carnegie, the former chief executive of Google Australia, was seeking to pump up the confidence of key staff from both sides working on the deal.
Michelle BowesWealth reporterMichelle Bowes writes about wealth from our Sydney newsroom. She has more than 20 years of experience as a business journalist and is the author of Money Queens: Rule your Money, an award-winning personal finance book for teenage girls. Email Michelle at michelle.bowes@afr.com
