Why International Charities Need To Make Themselves Redundant
What is the purpose of international charity? Is it to perpetuate themselves, or leave a legacy behind, so that local people can solve their own problems?Here's my TEDx talk on the topic.
Leadership is about redundancy – what happens after you leave
In a growth obsessed world, we fawn over leaders who maximise profits in the shortest possible time frame, those who achieve exponential growth against expectations.But what if this form of leadership doesn’t help in the long term? What if we need leaders who are more tortoise than hare?
4 leadership principles that children understand better than adults
On 22nd October, 2018, I was invited to speak at my old school - Trinity Grammar School in Sydney, on the topic of leadership. Most talks of this nature set up adults as learned superiors. But given the lack of inspiring adult leaders, it got me thinking - maybe children intuitively know what leadership is?Here's a transcript of my speech.
What living in Asia taught me about inequality in Australia
My education about Australia started when I lived overseas. After 8 years of living in some of the poorest parts of Asia, I returned to Australia to find that there were huge issues here too. With your help, here's how I'd like to go about addressing them.
The myth of the heroic expat leader
After close to a decade of working in developing countries, and founding an initiative in Cambodia, I realised I had fallen into a trap. I was perpetuating a myth: that change comes from the heroics of foreigners like myself. The reality couldn't be further from the truth.