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The art of zoning: How this KPMG partner ignores team calls

It’s an ongoing challenge for many working adults, leaving work at work to be totally present at home. One professional has found the answer.

Hannah Tattersall

Every evening when Naomi Mitchell gets home from work, she gets out of her car and heads into the house she shares with her husband and three daughters, leaving her briefcase, iPhone and Apple Watch in the car.

By day, Mitchell is 100 per cent focused on her work role as national managing partner of KPMG’s private client practice, Enterprise. By night, until her children, aged 9, 12 and 15 are asleep, she is fully present at home.

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Hannah Tattersall is a work and careers reporter for The Australian Financial Review and writes about executive education. Email Hannah at hannah.tattersall@afr.com.au

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