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By Caroline Kennedy | Published October 26, 2026 Sydney is a city where business ambitions often extend well beyond the local market. It’s a major financial and corporate centre, and its technology sector includes companies such as Canva and Atlassian. In Tech Central, growing enterprises share a district with global technology firms and research…
By Caroline Kennedy | Published October 26, 2026 You can be experienced, respected and delivering results, yet still find that the same leadership problem keeps coming back. Decisions return to your desk after you have delegated them. A difficult relationship takes up more attention than it should. Or a larger role exposes habits that…
By Caroline Kennedy | Published October 15, 2026 When an organisation says it needs its people to embrace change, I want to know what its leaders are prepared to change themselves. Consider a team being asked to make faster decisions while every approval still travels through three layers of management. Or employees being encouraged…
By Caroline Kennedy | Published October 15, 2026 A business can be growing and still be heading towards a serious problem. Revenue might be increasing, new clients are coming in, and the team is getting bigger. Yet the owner is working longer hours, profitability isn’t improving at the same rate, and almost every important…
By Caroline Kennedy | Published October 08, 2026 For the past few years, most conversations I’ve had with leaders about AI have started in roughly the same place: productivity. Where can we save time? What can we automate? Those are still useful questions. But the conversation is moving somewhere more consequential, and it starts…
By Caroline Kennedy | Published September 18, 2026 Beyond Prompting: How AI Adoption Changes The Way Business Operates For the past couple of years, much of the conversation about using AI in business has centred on prompting. How do you write a better prompt? Which model should you use? How do you get a…
By Caroline Kennedy | Published September 14, 2026 From AI Productivity to AI Business Performance: What I’m Seeing Inside Australian Businesses I’ve spent quite a bit of time recently talking to Australian businesses about AI. Not theoretically. Actually sitting with business owners and leaders and looking at what they’re doing with it, what they could…
By Caroline Kennedy | Published September 9, 2026 There is an interesting contradiction emerging in AI. Organisations are using more of it, employees are becoming increasingly comfortable with it, and AI is spreading into more areas of the business. Yet meaningful enterprise value remains concentrated among a very small group. According to McKinsey’s State…
By Caroline Kennedy | Published August 26, 2026 How Can Leaders Help High Performers Do Their Best Work? One of the patterns I see in my work with leaders is that high performance can change the way people are managed. When someone consistently delivers, takes ownership and uses good judgement, leaders naturally trust them…
By Caroline Kennedy | Published August 12, 2026 Choosing a keynote speaker can look straightforward until you start comparing the options. With so many female leadership speakers available, a strong profile, an impressive showreel and a recognisable name can all help narrow the field. But none of them guarantee that a speaker is right…