February
‘You have to be at the top of your game to survive’
London’s legal market is famously competitive, something Adelaide lawyer Eloise Crompton has come to admire.
March 2024
The CEO who thinks men should wear fewer suits
Belinda Agnew, co-CEO of xEnabler, leads a team of 75. She says it’s important that women feel they can express their true selves in what they wear to work.
December 2023
8 of the year’s most awful jargon
The Eye-roll Awards highlight the words or phrases we hope to never see again.
December 2022
Slowbalise the workation! The year’s 10 worst bits of jargon
This year we have examined the words and phrases that professionals love to use, and what they’re really saying. Here are some we hope to never see again.
December 2021
The Eye-roll Awards: 11 of the year’s worst jargon examples
This tiring year has allowed professionals to deploy an almost unrelenting level of doublespeak and hyperbole that was simultaneously confusing and upsetting.
November 2021
Borders down: Young accountants, lawyers head overseas for adventure
After 20 months of closed borders, professional firms are bracing for an exodus of young talent. Business leaders expect pent-up demand will make the already tight labour market even tighter.
October 2021
Travel bans force Accenture’s Brady to exit early
Commitment to his family is causing Tara Brady to leave as the head of consultancy Accenture in Australia after just 14 months. He’s is set to be succeeded by a PwC recruit.
September 2021
Meet the professional who swapped fashion for consulting
Professionals are swapping careers as varied as medicine, fashion design, teaching and hospitality for consulting roles.
August 2021
How Andrew Yates plans to make KPMG an ‘employer of choice’
New KPMG CEO is determined to re-set the firm’s relationship with its staff after a difficult year of redundancies, pay cuts and piecemeal repayments.
July 2021
Meet the Matildas star building a consulting career on the side
Midfielder and MBA graduate Tameka Yallop works from hotels, her home and the Olympic Village doing remote project management work to set up her post-sport career.
Meet the Olympic athlete juggling a corporate law career on the side
Corrs Chambers Westgarth paralegal and future graduate lawyer Georgia Winkcup will be following in her grandmother’s footsteps when she hits the running track in Tokyo next week.
This KPMG consultant was promoted while working from home full-time
Working remotely has not hindered her career, says KPMG consultant Millie Di Maio. Others say face to face is the best way to deliver results.
EY auditor stranded in US for months due to visa rules
For Ann Zhuang, the government’s expansion of the skilled migrant list could end her 16 months of working from a studio apartment. All she needs now is a quarantine place.
More predictable: moving from consulting to L’Oréal
The ability to set your own deadlines – and the end of management-by-email – are the key benefits of leaving consulting, according to former Kearney adviser Christelle Young.
June 2021
Deloitte CEO sweeps aside old rules for ‘transparency’
Newly appointed Adam Powick is the first technology consultant to lead an accounting firm globally, and he is ready to break some industry rules.
Meet the lawyer teaching cello to corporate Australia
London’s Royal Albert Hall or the Sydney Opera House may seem a far cry from the NSW Supreme Court, but this corporate lawyer is at home in them all.
April 2021
From rock band drumming to management consulting
Jackson White has no regrets about going from drumming in a popular indie rock band to consulting at professional services firm Grant Thornton.
February 2021
Why Hong doesn’t call herself Julia any more
It took six months of living in Australia for Shao Hong to feel confident enough to use her Chinese name at work. She believes corporate Australia would benefit from migrants leaning into their heritage.
December 2020
Aussie CEOs 'reluctant to challenge status quo'
A lack of ambition and the hesitance of most leaders to push beyond their comfort zone constrains how much consultants can achieve, says Kearney executive.
October 2020
EY consultant picks pandemic opportunity for return to medical role
When Ernst & Young offered staff the option to take a three-month sabbatical in April as part of its pandemic cost-cutting, it likely did not expect them to use the break to go on the COVID-19 frontline.