Last night our daughter showed us a video recorded by the company she works for, during its Thursday Town hall meeting – an all-staff get together to talk about something topical. One of their directors is an African American called Charles and he spoke for fifteen to twenty minutes about his experiences as a black …
We were just talking about what an initiative on “well-being” might look like for our organisation and were at a bit of a loss to describe what its focus should be or how it would be represented so that it could be meaningful. We had Aisling Costello on the call, someone who we have been …
SeeBeyondCOVID-19 has become the focus for us all in one way or another. Beyond the hand sanitiser purchases, the working from home, the school closures, and the toilet paper mountains that someone must be climbing as a virtual challenge in their bathrooms, how do we spend our time in isolation to get ready to resume …
So it’s mid-morning on Friday and I’m making a cup of tea. Phath, our Operations Manager comes over to get a drink. “How’s progress?” I ask him casually. “What do you mean, ‘progress’?” he says with his characteristic wry smile. “Well you know. In your life.” “Well, I used to be a simple farmer and …
Photo credit: ABC Goldfields: Tom Joyner “So where’s home for you?” is a question we get a lot and one we don’t have a simple answer to. Home is where the heart is of course and in our lifetime we have shared our hearts out to a few places, but Australia is special. We settled …
Edward Shuttleworth is our CEO and he and his wife Kate live and work predominantly in Cambodia. He has written the following blog post on their bus journey on Monday. How can anyone know what goes on in a country like Cambodia if they are not based here? There is so much happening beneath the …
