Business As A Platform For Change

There is a rich science around the physiology of emotions, just like there is a rich science behind analysing and using data.

Our physical, mental and emotional wellbeing is our most important asset. The arrival of COVID-19 however has taken its toll on all facets of our health, impacting the very way we live our lives. We spoke with Dr Justine Gatt, Group Leader and Senior Research Scientist, at NeuRA and UNSW on the importance of prioritising your mental wellbeing and steps you can take to build mental resilience. 

We are developing a Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) to ensure that our contributions to equality are considered, impactful and measurable, and we are accountable and transparent in our actions.

Working and living at the intersection of the housed and the homeless, the haves and the have-nots, also means standing between love and hate. That’s a very fine line, says Jon Owen, Pastor…

Salesforce’s Lee-anne Knight talks with Geoff Martin, Professor of Strategy at the Melbourne Business School, on the importance of values within a company's strategy – and how you ensure the two work together. 

Schools Plus supports vulnerable students to succeed at school. And with education in Australia upended by back-to-back catastrophic events, the organisation’s work has become both more critical and more difficult. Schools Plus CEO Rosemary Conn shares her organisation’s current challenges and how we can all help overcome them. 

The businesses that will be remembered positively after COVID-19 are extending empathy and grace to their employees, customers and communities.  We’ve seen so many communities recently of people being their best selves –…

This year’s theme for National Volunteer Week is ‘Changing Communities. Changing lives’. It seems fitting given the current global shifts we have experienced over the past months.

Do companies that do good also do well, even in a pandemic? Just Capital, a nonprofit that assesses and ranks US employers for their business practices, found companies driving positive change on the issues the American public cares about most have continued to outperform the market through the COVID-19 crisis.

Equality has long been at the heart of our business – by being part of the Mardi Gras Festival, we say loud and proud “this is what matters to us”.