Sally Patten
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- Aug 25, 2026
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Three hard truths about AI every CEO and director needs to hear (opens the original)
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In a recent survey of consumers by strategy consultant McKinsey, nearly a quarter of respondents said they used a generative artificial intelligence tool for financial tasks, such as budgeting or expense tracking, at least once a month. Nearly two-thirds said they would consider AI features, which include asking a chatbot how much they spent on groceries in the previous month or when their credit card payment is due, when selecting a bank and 30 per cent of those who had recently switched banks
Why your legal background is your secret C-suite superpower (opens the original)
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In this series, we talk to former lawyers in private practice who have stepped away from the profession and are making their mark on corporate Australia. Here we talk to Lisa Claes, president of Cotality in Australia. Lisa Claes, the president of data firm Cotality (formerly CoreLogic) in Australia, was in her mid-30s when she said goodbye to her legal career. And she wasn’t even looking for a change.
BOSS Young Executives: This exec thought she’d be a hairdresser. Her first job? Macquarie (opens the original)
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Nisha Pradhan was born in India, went to school in Mackay in Queensland and then moved with her parents and younger sister to the NSW coastal city of Wollongong. Pradhan – who is acting chief development officer at mining company PanAust and is today recognised as one of this year’s BOSS Young Executives – remembers being at school watching her friends eat chip sandwiches and telling her mother, who migrated to Australia with her husband as skilled migrants and who wanted her children to fit in,
Meet the senior CBA exec who started his career as a bank teller (opens the original)
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By all accounts, it took Aaron Bergstrum a few months to settle into his studies at university. Bergstrum, state manager for Queensland, Western Australia and South Australia for premier banking at Commonwealth Bank, first enrolled in sports science. The course involved too much anatomy, so he quit after a semester and switched to a business and finance degree. The content was fine, but after three months Bergstrum realised full-time university life was not for him.
‘The phone stopped ringing’: How retirement shock hit this Olympian (opens the original)
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In 2016 former Opals star player and Olympic medallist Lauren Jackson was forced to retire. She had had 17 knee operations and could not get on top of her injury. “At that point, I was really aware that my identity as a basketball player was gone. The phone stopped ringing. I didn’t have to go to the gym [in the] morning,” Jackson, chief strategy and basketball partnerships officer for the WNBL Australia, recalls.
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