Success Stories From Catherine Robson

In this week's Success Story, world class property expert Tanya Cox talks with Catherine Robson about the resilience required to ride out multiple financial crises, the challenges of balancing a portfolio of non-executive roles and her 2 best investments.

In this week's Success Story, Siobhan Hayden, Board Advisor and Chief Operating Officer of innovative fintech startup HashChing, Australia’s first online marketplace for home loans talks with Catherine Robson about working on the front line of Australia's ballooning mortgage market, the role martial arts have played in her career and the profound impact surviving a rare type of cancer has had on her life.

In this week's Success Story, Dr Kelly Rogers, an expert in advanced microscopy, talks with Catherine Robson about the challenges of her early days at Institut Pasteur in Paris, how WEHI supports their scientists in balancing family life and why images from her lab have been transformed into an popular annual art exhibition.

In this week’s Success Story, Trena Blair, Founder and CEO of FD Global Connections, chats with Catherine Robson about what it takes to launch in the USA, why NYC in a hotspot for female entrepreneurs and her simple investing tip for growing a nest egg.

In this week’s Success Story, Alison Kitchen, the first female National Chairman of KPMG, chats with Catherine Robson about her journey from accounting practitioner to senior leadership and why her earliest career decision was based on a dislike of green trousers.

In this week’s Success Story, Jessica Ellerm, Co-Founder and CEO of Australian fintech Zuper, chats with Catherine Robson about her windy road to startup success and how Zuper is set to shake up the super industry.

In this week’s Success Story, Professor Gabrielle Belz, an award-winning scientist and Laboratory Head of the Molecular Immunology division at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI) explains to Catherine Robson the importance of nurturing a healthy gut, shares career advice for young scientists and her productivity hacks for managing the ‘reasonably unreasonable’ time demands of a career in science.

In this week’s Success Story, Megan Caywood, Chief Platform Officer at Starling Bank in the UK speaks with Catherine Robson about what the future of banking looks like and why taking action and not waiting to be chosen is the key to getting ahead in your career.

In this week’s success story, Michelle Dixon, CEO of Maddocks speaks with Catherine Robson about how she ‘accidentally’ became the CEO and her experience as one of only a handful of women leading large professional services firms.

In this week’s Success Story with Catherine Robson, Uschi Schreiber Chair, Global Accounts Committee and Global Vice Chair, Markets at EY talks on what it means to ‘live between times’ and how companies can respond and thrive as the era of smart technology pushes relentlessly forward.

In this week’s Success Story, Susan Lloyd Hurwitz speaks with Catherine Robson about overhauling Mirvac’s strategic approach in response to the changing property market, the housing affordability crisis and the green future of urban living.  

In this week’s Success Story with Catherine Robson, Julia French tells Catherine what she looks for in a startup, why business is like kitesurfing and how women can shrink the knowledge gap among Aussie startup founders.

In this week’s Success Story with Catherine Robson, Emma Weston, co-founder and CEO of AgriDigital chats about the experience of building and selling a successful business and then returning to market with a new startup. She shares her best productivity hacks and explains why the technology her company is developing could revolutionise the biggest industry on earth.

In this week’s Success Story with Catherine Robson, Clara busts myths around A.I; explaining how the technology is creating a seismic shift in financial services with radical customer personalization. She also reveals that the secret to her stellar career success is having a great sense of humour.

In this week's Success Story, Dr Gillian Opie shares with Catherine Robson the profound impact nutrition has in the very early stages of life, the importance of breast milk banks but why she’d like to see them become redundant.

In this week’s Success Story with Catherine Robson, Josephine Sukkar shares why she keeps family values at the heart of a multi-million-dollar business and how women are making up ground in rugby union.

A remarkable and relatable leader, Annette Kimmitt’s boundless energy and enthusiasm in supporting professional women is changing the playing field for female entrepreneurs in Australia. Annette is EY’s Global Growth Markets Leader and Asia-Pacific Accounts Leader and co-founder of Australia’s first female-focused seed capital organisation SCALE. In this week’s Success Story, Annette chats with Catherine Robson about the big issues women entrepreneurs face when starting a business, coping with self-doubt and the courage to take bold action.

Skipp Williamson is Managing Director of Partners in Performance, a global consulting firm spanning Europe, Africa, North and Latin America, Asia and Australia. She’s been named in the Australian Financial Review and Westpac Group 100 Women of Influence awards but the advice of her high school careers advisor was to get a job as a builders labourer. In this week’s success story Skipp talks with Catherine about how her consulting career started with a free flight, the challenges of consulting in Australia and why she embraced a digital workforce.

Professor Jane Visvader is one of the world’s leading breast cancer researchers and joint head of stem cells and cancer research at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research. She is at the forefront of giving women carrying the faulty BRCA1 gene, a precursor to breast cancer, preemptive treatment choices beyond the surgically invasive options of a mastectomy or oophorectomy (removal of the ovaries). Her impressive career spans various areas of science but a remarkable opportunity in 1998 led to her blazing the path of breast cancer treatment she’s on today. Speaking with Catherine Robson in this week’s Success Story, Jane talks about what it’s like to work alongside her husband, the scientific setbacks she’s faced, and her advice for young scientists.

Romilly Madew is the determined Chief Executive Officer of the Green Building Council of Australia. For more than a decade, she’s been at the helm of creating change for sustainable building in Australia. Author of the report The Dollars and Sense of Green Building 2008, Romilly has played an influential role in shaping the environmental impact of Australian buildings. In addition to her duties as CEO, this family oriented, extroverted leader has spun together an eclectic mix of board roles and community responsibilities to create full and rewarding life. Romilly speaks with Catherine Robson in this week’s Success Story on Australia’s journey to a greener future and how being in the right place at the right time has played a role in her success.