CEO at 24: What you learn about leadership

What do you learn about leadership, when you take on a CEO role
at a young age?


Shelley Cable says she never planned to be a Chief Executive
Officer at the age of 24, but that’s exactly what happened when
she was appointed CEO of Generation One at the Minderoo
Foundation two years ago.


In this week’s episode of The Leadership Lessons, Cable tells
Shirley Chowdhary what the experience has been like, how it
happened, and what she's learning along the way.


A proud Nyoongar woman, Cable says her parents, who met working
in a bank and had an “entrepreneurial streak about them”,
instilled a love of business and finance in her. She also says
she grew up in an environment that gave her an “inner confidence”
which means she doesn’t get easily intimated by challenges that
come her way at her work.


Cable explains that she’s steadfastly focused on the primary
objective of Generation One, which is to help close the
employment gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
in one generation.


Some excellent tips in this ep once again.


The Leadership Lessons is made possible thanks to the
excellent support of Salesforce. It's produced by Agenda Media,
the publisher of Women's Agenda and mixed by our producer Allison
Ho.


You can check out our other podcasts, including The
Women's Agenda Podcast and The Women's Health Project.





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