How COVID-19 redefined leadership for these award-winning women

There can be no leaders without followers – and the pandemic reminded us that followers respond best when treated like human beings and not like machines.

Euan BlackWork and careers reporter

Jun 25, 2024 – 5.00am

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Leaders who thought before the pandemic that people’s personal and professional lives were entirely separate would have had their beliefs tested by the COVID-19 lockdowns.

If our smartphones had blurred these boundaries before the pandemic forced us to work from home, then the sight of a colleague’s child bursting onto our computer screens during a Zoom call was enough to shatter them.

Euan Black is a work and careers reporter at The Australian Financial Review. Email Euan at euan.black@afr.com