A practical approach
I’m proud to be featured on Moxie Top Minds, joining the most influential figures redefining business and technology in Australia.
It’s always great to collaborate with industry leaders from all aspects of the ecosystem: CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, CISOs and Founders.
I look forward to setting the market pace by sharing insights, shaping research data and collaborating among executive networks.
In this blog, I’m going to expand on my observations from working with Indigenous communities in Australia. I’ll adopt a more structured approach to reflective practice to crystallise the insights from my final project and the entire MBA journey.
A big moment at the 10x Demo Day with Edmond Sorich and Eléonore Cluzel.
Health 10x, in collaboration with The George Institute for Global Health, is a unique national program accelerating the business growth of startups building affordable and scalable solutions for major health challenges.
It was a privilege to support GLIA Diagnostics developing the first portable, accurate brain injury diagnostic device over the past twelve weeks as an advisor and mentor.
I had an absolute blast at the AI for Social Impact hackathon.
I had a chance to experiment with systems thinking, design thinking and other innovation tools to harness the power of AI for good.
Scenario analysis is a powerful tool to enhance strategic thinking and strategic responses. It aims to examine how our environment might play out in the future and can help organisations ask the right questions, reduce biases and prepare for the unexpected.
What are scenarios? Simply put, these are short explanatory stories with an attention- grabbing and easy-to-remember title. They define plausible futures and often based on trends and uncertainties.
I recently completed a masterclass on embedding sustainable leadership in organisations. The best part was the interactive simulation to identify the trade-offs necessary to achieve a balanced approach to decision making for both immediate business goals and long-term sustainability.
I have a keen interest in the not-for-profit sector because its commitment to mission aligns with my personal values and goals. As part of my Executive MBA studies, I completed the Social Impact course that provided me with an insight into complex problems in society and how I can leverage my skills to help tackle them.
One of my biggest learnings from this course relates to demonstrating social impact.
I previously viewed social impact measurement as a distraction from doing actual work imposed by funders and regulators. It was easier for me to focus on outputs rather than long-term outcomes and impact, because they were readily available and straightforward to report on. This course broadened my perspective and helped me distinguish between outputs and lasting social, economic and environmental effects.
Applying course concepts, particularly Theory of Change and Logic Models helped me see the benefits of social impact measurement like learning and personal development, increased accountability, transparency and trust and overall organisational improvement.
In this blog I’ll share some of the tools that can be used to analyse a particular problem. We will use homelessness as an example and compare how two organisations tackle this problem and demonstrate social impact.
Cyber security leaders deal with complex problems all the time, but only a few are well equipped to deal with such challenges effectively. Systems thinking is a discipline that can help CISOs improve their ability to see the bigger picture and move beyond simplistic linear cause-effect relationships and point-in-time snapshots.
Systems thinking is a mindset that encourages you to see interdependencies, processes and patterns of complex systems. Complex systems contain multiple interacting feedback loops and it is this feature that make them so challenging to understand, diagnose and improve.
In this blog I outline some examples of complex systems, recommend tools to begin to understand and influence them and demonstrate how these techniques can be applied to improve digital safety and security.
I’m happy to share that after a long review process, our paper on identifying and extracting scam stages and scripts is finally published.
It’s been a great collaboration with Macquarie University to analyse scammers’ strategies that built a foundation for developing a Conversational AI bot that wastes scammers’ time.
Read full paper here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.01965
I completed the Data Analytics and Decision Making course as part of my Executive MBA. In this blog, I summarise some of the insights and learnings that you can apply in your work too.
Cyber Security Leadership 