Sitting on the verandah watching the world go by is a sure way to go nuts in retirement. Planning and patience are the key to achieving fulfilment in your latter years.

Not-for-profits are purpose-built to elevate and deliver on the hopes and aspirations of even those who cannot afford to pay for it. They will always own purpose.

As a matter of life and death, the COVID pandemic has delivered some pretty tough lessons for those professional communicators who seek to change or influence human behaviour.

Reflections on Ageism Awareness Day and how it should broaden its narrow focus on discrimination against older people.

Politics point to the almost inevitability that Australia will commit to net zero carbon emissions at COP26. The Morrison government will want put COVID behind it and woo inner city electorates on climate.

Sovereignty is now linked to manufacturing. This makes the Abbott government’s decision to euthanase the Australian auto industry look pretty naive.

Will the demand for writing diminish to almost the point of irrelevance to a generation consuming podcasts, images, vlogs and acronyms?

Exploring the difference between a socially cool startup and the less glamorous endeavour of running a small business.

Retirement savings can be dented by paying for excess insurance in your super fund in late career.

Diversity of membership for merging super funds must focus not only on the ‘acquisition’ of new members so they’re ‘stapled’, but also having a large base of older and wealthier members for when the staples fall out.

Australia’s 2021 Intergenerational Report suggests that one of the best things we can do for our kids is be as financially self-sufficient in retirement as possible.

A brief yarn about how we put together Australia’s first internet coverage of a Federal Election in 1996.

Getting involved as a board member for the UNESCO Western Port Biosphere gave me a greater sense that I could make a tangible contribution to tackling the big issues of climate change and environmental restoration by acting locally.

Disruption to the economy and personal finances wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic through 2020 is but one of the transformational changes that will shape Australia’s superannuation industry in the years ahead.

Recent crises and inquiries have torn the Bandaid off the propensity of politicians to avoid accountability from responsibilities clearly lying within their jurisdiction. It’s time accountability took centrestage.

We used to just like good customer service, but now we demand experiences - or do we? Too many marketers are now trying to deliver the impossible in some sectors. There’s a lot to be said for just great utility.

For organisations focused locally, there has never been a better time to build a presence and articulate a value proposition that can deliver tangible and demonstrable community outcomes.

COVID-19 is really the crisis Generations X and Y needed to stimulate and justify the final push to flush out the baby boomers hanging onto lucrative executive and board sinecures.

If the current health/economic crisis has done anything, it has reinforced the role of narrative in taking data science to the masses.

A consultancy business from home can conjure up many perceptions among prospective clients, one of which is an absolute killer - you’ll work for less.