Happy Valentines Day everyone!  I have to say, a 3 minute speech is a first for me… so I referred to the wisdom of Winston Churchill who once said… “a good speech should be like a woman’s skirt, long enough to cover the subject, short enough to create interest”.  Given that I’m past the age [...] Read more

Is it? Or are business leaders making it so by their beliefs and actions? Over the years there have been countless studies from Hewitt, Gallup, Tower Watson and others that link high performance to employee engagement. Hewitt Best Employers consistently outperform companies with lower engagement in all facets of business performance from lower staff turnover, [...] Read more

We’ve all heard the exhortations to, “do what you love”. Many (most?) of us believe there’s a fundamental truth in the idea that we will achieve our greatest success by finding and pursuing that which we were “meant” to do. Most of us probably also believe that while this is a nice idea in theory [...] Read more

Lloyds International Pty Ltd is a subsidiary of Lloyds Banking Group plc, one of the world’s largest financial services organisations providing retail, business and corporate banking and financial services to more than 30 million individual and corporate customers. In Australia, through their Capital Finance and BOS International businesses Lloyd’s offer a range of asset finance [...] Read more

Have you ever experienced the good luck of finding someone who seems to have the answers you are looking for at their fingertips? You know, the kind of person who has “been there and done that” and who makes your quandaries and dilemmas seem normal. Someone who can show you the stepping-stones on a path [...] Read more