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Kate Milburn: Making a difference to gender equity one pebble at a time

For Kate Milburn, Umbrella’s newest team member, psychology always simply made sense. Throughout her schooling, she enjoyed science and people, so “psychology provided the lens to get the best out of both”. Now, more than two decades later, she’s as certain as ever of her decision. Over that time, [...]

2021-04-29T14:51:41+12:00April 29th, 2021|

The work life juggle for women working from home

We are living in a time where more households are likely to have both parents holding down complex and demanding work roles. We also often hear people trying to cram more into life. For example, being a worker, parent, caregiver or minder, the dog walker, the taxi driver to the [...]

2021-04-27T19:08:16+12:00April 27th, 2021|

Amplifying the wellbeing strengths of working women

It is not always useful to draw definitive lines in the sand when it comes to gender. So many of the differences we find between genders are due to complex social and societal expectations, as opposed to innate differences (as critiques of the “Men are from Mars, women are [...]

2021-04-27T15:04:55+12:00April 27th, 2021|

Neurodiversity in the workplace: Different not less

April is Autism Awareness/Acceptance/Celebration month, making now a good time to talk about neurodiversity in the workplace, as an opportunity for organisations and their people to thrive. Neurodiversity refers to the idea that some brains work quite differently to others and encompasses a range of diagnoses (sometimes referred to [...]

2022-11-18T09:20:24+13:00March 26th, 2021|