The Diversity Blog – SaaS, Cloud & Business Strategy

The other day I was tootling around Christchurch and bumped into a neighbour. Since it was the day after the election, David and I spent a bit of time discussing the results, doing the usual post-election forensic analysis that involves explaining why the people who voted differently from us were obviously wrong. We then got onto the reason for his perambulations: he was retu...

Like many Kiwis, I spent a couple of years in my twenties overseas. In my case, that meant cycling from the Middle East to Scandinavia in pursuit of the quintessential Scandinavian woman: high cheekbones, blonde hair, and that lovely social democrat sensibility. It ended, as these things do, in London and in heartbreak over said Danish girl, followed by six months dossing on ...

I’ve been thinking recently about standing out and how society encourages us to comply with social (and other!) norms. From birth, and certainly from adolescence, we are told to go with the flow, choose the safe jobs, hang out with the right people and dress the way we’re expected. All very glib and constrained.

It is, in my view, why in this country (and, to be fair, ...

I perpetually struggle with deciding whether I want to make a big change in a small part of the world, or a small impact that is broader. Part of the reason I have such a diverse range of roles is that I get to work at both ends of the spectrum, from very grassroots (being a firefighter in my local community, for example) to a little higher level (political advocacy or corpor...