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INTERVIEWS WITH LEADERS

CLW's interviews with prominent national and international female and male leaders, focus on several issues including their reflections about how they became leaders, their understanding of leadership, their vision, the influence others have had on them and their perceptions about women.  Each leader who is featured below has travelled a unique path to reach their position of leadership. The unedited interviews offer an insight into their values, courage and aspirations.   All of the interviews are researched and conducted by Dr Diann Rodgers-Healey.

This Section will also feature the work of distinguished experts in different fields such as education, leadership and women's issues.

(Click on the names below to access the interview.)

 

Libby Davies

CEO of White Ribbon Australia
Helen Conway

Director of Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency (EOWA)
Associate Professor Carolyn Hannan

Director for the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women in New York (2001-2009)
Professors Diane Halpern and Fanny M. Cheung

Authors of Women at the Top

Professor Stephen Dinham


Research Director - Teaching, Learning and Leadership , Australian Council for Educational Research

The Hon Minister Tanya Pilbersek

Minister for Housing and the Minister for the Status of Women

Leila Conners

President & Founder of Tree Media

Mallen Baker

Director of Respect &
Strategic Advisor on Corporate Social Responsibility

Justice Nazhat Shameem

First woman appointed to the High Court of Fiji

Tony Ryan

Author of Thinkers Keys

Alexandra Harney

Author of The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage

Peter Hurst

International Labor Organisation

Sandra Janoff and Marvin Weisbord

Co-Directors, Future Search Network

Dr Charles Margerison and Dr Dick McCann

Authors of the Team Management Systems

Dr Katherine Benziger

Expert on the neuro-scientific bases for Dr. Carl Jung’s model of psychological type

Avril Henry

Executive Director, AH Revelations

Bernadette McMenamin AO

Chief Executive Officer of Childwise (Australian arm of End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes' (ECPAT), Australian of the Year (Victoria) 2004

Dr Fred Alan Wolf

Physicist, Lecturer, Author of 11 books including Taking the Quatum Leap, and presenter in the film, What the Bleep Do We Know?

Margaret Douglas

Chief Executive of Save the Children Australia

Michael Grose 

Author and speaker on parenting and family matters

Dr Kent M. Keith

Author of the 10 Paradoxical Commandments

Philippe Couturier 

Executive Director of  Médecins Sans Frontières in Australia

Dr Alan Berkowitz

Psychologist, Editor & Founder of The Report on Social Norms 

On Men’s Role in Ending Violence Against Women

Dr Noa Davenport

On Mobbing & Emotional Abuse in the American Workplace

Patricia Hughes    

Writer of best selling narrative, Daughters of Nazreth and Enough

Professor Sylvia Bashevkin  

Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto and widely published author and media commentator

Professor Margaret Reynolds  

President of the United Nations Association of Australia; Senator for Queensland 1983-1999; Minister for the Status of Women 1988-1990 

Dr Jean Shinoda Bolen  

Psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Author and Lecturer

Frances Hesselbein  

Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Leader-to-Leader Institute USA

Catherine Ryan Hyde   

Author of Pay it Forward 

Professor Fiona Stanley  

Australian of the Year 2003

Reverend Nic Frances MBE  

Executive Director of the Brotherhood of St Laurence

Dr Peter Spitzer MB BS, FACRRM

Chairman, Medical Director Humour Foundation, Churchill Fellow

Dr. Lynette J. Dumble PhD, MSc

Feminist medical & Environmental Scientist & Founder of the Global Sisterhood Network

Dr Roger Cole

Oncologist and Palliative Care Physician, Director of Palliative Care, Wollongong Hospital, NSW

Bola Olabisi

Founder, CEO and Managing Director of

Dianne McKissock 

Sociologist, Marriage & Family Therapist, Grief Therapist and Death Educator 

Rev. Dorothy McRae-McMahon  

Former Parish Minister with the Pitt Street Uniting Church in central Sydney and Author 

Dr John Yu

Former Chief Executive, New Children's Hospital; Chancellor of UNSW

Dr Simon Longstaff

Executive Director, St James Ethics Centre

Judge Margaret Sidis


District Court of New South Wales

Linda Jean Burney


Director General of the NSW Department of Aboriginal Affairs

The Hon Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG


Justice of the High Court of Australia

David Clutterbuck


Co-founder of The European Mentoring Centre and of The Item Group & Principal of Clutterbuck Associates 

Moira Rayner


Director, London Children's Rights Commissioner

Ruth Keszia Whiteside


Manager of the People 1st Programme, (PIP): Supporting People with an Intellectual Disability in Human Relationships, Self-esteem and Sexuality

Tom Keneally


Australian Author

Ellen Galinsky


President and Co-Founder of Families and Work Institute

Distinguished Professor Dexter Dunphy


 Professor of Management at the Australian Graduate School of Management, UNSW

 Liz Mullinar AM


Founder of ASCA and Australia's former leading Casting Consultant

Rt Hon Malcolm Fraser AC CH


Former Prime Minister of Australia, Chairperson CARE International

Professor Allan Fels


Chairman, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission 

Anita Roddick OBE


Founder and Chief Executive of
The Body Shop

Dr Jocelynne Scutt


Anti-Discrimination Commissioner, Tasmania

Sir Gustav Nossal AC, CBE, FAA, FRS

Scientist, Humanitarian, Australian of the Year 2000

 

More Interviews:

Rosemary Calder

First Assistant Secretary  Office of the Status of Women

Ann Sherry
Group Executive Human Resources Westpac Banking Corporation

Dr Elizabeth Reid Boyd
Director, Centre for Research for Women

Dr Carmen Lawrence
Shadow Minister for Industry, Technology and Innovation, and Shadow Minister for the Status of Women

Sarah Maddison
- Political Activist and Spokesperson, Women's Electoral Lobby NSW

Elizabeth Proust
- Group General Manager Corporate Affairs and Human Resources Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ)

Rosemary Stanton
- Nutritionist, Author, Companion of the Order of Australia

Natasha Stott Despoja
- Senator & Deputy Leader of the Australian Democrats Party

Shirley Stott Despoja
- Journalist and Mother of Natasha Stott Despoja

Professor Peter Sheldrake
- Head of School of Management, RMIT University

Robyn Henderson
- Global Networking Specialist, Author

Julie Boyd
- Director and CEO of Global learning Communities International and Managing Director of the Working Futures Group