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Wrapping up a great decade; Where are they now? Ashleigh’s story; From mentee to mentor – Lee Vo’s full circle story; The benefits of mentoring – Carolyn and Jennifer’s story

A recent collaboration between ABCN and American Express resulted in an exciting new two-day, leadership mentoring program – Leaders of Tomorrow. Designed to inspire Year 11 students from high-needs schools who demonstrate leadership potential, the program...

By taking part in our new one-day girls and women in leadership program, 50 female student leaders from six different ABCN partner schools were given the opportunity to learn from 25 senior business women at our biggest mentoring...

We were delighted to run our first CAREERx recently – a new one-day program designed for school career advisors. An ABCN initiative, it was borne from current global research that indicates a shift in the range of...

Our second annual Leadership Summit was held recently with 14 excited new scholars and their mentors arriving in Sydney – many flying in especially from interstate for the two-day national event. For most of the...

ABCN’s 2nd Annual Leadership Summit; CAREERx – upskilling careers advisors; The Future Influence-Her; Developing the leaders of tomorrow

Based in Queensland, Denise was one of our inaugural scholarship winners in 2013. Her mentor, Angela O’Sullivan is from Navitas.  The positive relationship they’ve developed is a wonderful example of how powerful the mentoring relationship can...

There was much excitement in the air recently as Year 11 Focus students from Sarah Redfern and Sir Joseph Banks high schools took part in a special session with the team from Dress for Success. Dress for Success is...

As a Year 9 student at Auburn Girls High School, Michelle (Htet) faced many challenges – some of these stemmed from financial difficulties, but looking back, she also remembers an overwhelming belief that she and...