How Helen Lynch broke the rules to lend to a future chief justice
The trailblazing businesswoman approved the loan to Susan Kiefel even though it was outside the guidelines and her authority.
You will never reach your full potential unless you are true to your values, love what you do, try new things and are challenged in your role, says Helen Lynch. Dominic Lorrimer
It was 1983 when Helen Lynch, a commercial lending manager for Westpac in Brisbane, met a young barrister who had applied for a loan to finance her legal studies.
The woman had left school at 15 and worked her way up from receptionist to law student to solicitor to barrister. Lynch, who’d also left school at 15, was forging a career in banking after becoming Australia’s first female bank branch manager in Westpac, Rockhampton.
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