People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together – Michelle Obama. In 2019, Nike created a tribute to women in sport, called Dream Crazier. The ad essentially takes the below negative portrayals of women in sport and...

According to a Forbes article, more data has been created in the past two years than in the entire previous history of the human race. In today's digital universe, our virtual movements are golden fodder for marketers, consumer insight-ers, and data miners such as...

This week I was in Auckland for work. As part of my visit, I was invited to speak at Lawfest – a legal technology and innovation conference. I found it interesting there was still a question about whether disruption of the legal sector is just hype. I also found it...

Warning: this post does not contain any explicit content. This week I saw the biopic On The Basis of Sex, which tells the story of the earlier life of Ruth Bader-Ginsberg - a young law student, wife, mother and American heroine. (In 1993, she was appointed a Justice...

When I was a lawyer on training wheels, I may or may not have snuck off after work to fashion illustration and pattern making classes. (FYI, I tanked at both). I may have moonlighted on the weekends as a retail sales associate for an Australian fashion label for 12...

Unless you have been hiding under a rock or gone off the grid, you’ll have seen the 10-year challenge online. Everywhere. It’s the first social media challenge for 2019, across Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. The premise of it is to post a photo of yourself from 2009...

My husband and I have a New Year ritual. In early January we sit down of an afternoon with some magazines. In beautiful silence, we each cut out pictures individually representing our goals for the year ahead. And then we assemble a vision board, together. Sometimes...

One of the most talked about events in 2018 was the debut of the exclusive capsule collection of Israel based tech inspired designer, called AI vs Humans. I hear that preparations for this first of its kind event were not easy and didn’t always go to plan. There were...

Ah, Innovation. Eternally Sexy. Relevant. Aspirational. Favourite Child. The Headline Act. With the dawn of the fourth industrial revolution, hail the evergreen buzzword and business badge of honour. It’s like a powerful Silicon Valley channelling cocktail designed to...

Fear. The mother of all avoidance, falsehood and untested assumptions. Fear. It slows us down, holds us back and has us second guess. Fear. It riddles us with doubt, messes with our confidence, and invites worry. Fear. It stares down at courage and is just as...