Where would Diane Grady be if her boss hadn’t handed her half of his notes on the way into an important meeting and said: “Here, you do the presentation”?
That boss was Fred Hilmer, when he was managing the McKinsey & Company’s practice in this country. Grady is now one of Australia’s best-known independent directors (on the board of Macquarie Group) and she became the first female McKinsey partner outside the US.
But would Grady have got her foot in that door without the-then chairman of Lend Lease, Stuart Hornery, deciding to go against his aversion to consultants, to appoint her to his company’s board?
Read full article – “Top female directors need more than luck” by Fiona Smith, AFR, 13 November 2013
