by Catherine DeVrye | Jul 19, 2021 | The world @work
As we’re more than half way through 2021 and those of us in Australia enter a new financial year amidst lockdown, the covid chaos of the past 18 months remains a challenge. Like many, I recently moved to a home office after selling my business premises. It took...
by Catherine DeVrye | Jun 5, 2020 | The world @work
Having left a secure executive position with IBM for the insecurity of starting my own business, I sometimes struggled in a home office before expanding into ‘real’ commercial office space to accommodate staff. Now, like many others, I find myself back working from...
by Catherine DeVrye | Mar 31, 2020 | The world @work
Yes, we indeed live in unprecedented times – but haven’t there always been unprecedented times in human history? There is no room for corona complacency during this current medical and economic crisis. Yet, in spite of cancelled travel, cancelled conferences and...
by Catherine DeVrye | Jun 5, 2019 | The world @work
How often do you get frustrated as a customer? Working part-time in hospitality to put herself through university, Catherine DeVrye had a customer centric work ethic drilled into her. Later in her professional life working at IBM in Japan, she became totally ingrained...
by Catherine DeVrye | Mar 27, 2017 | The world @work
Last week the Financial Review invited me to their two day top-tier business summit – possibly because it was on International Women’s Day and last year they included me in their Top 100 Women of Influence. As I headed home on the Manly ferry, I reviewed my...