We can end the climate wars

Independent MP Zali Steggall knows a thing or two about making
career leaps. She’s done it successfully multiple times, moving
from the heights of professional sport, as Australia’s most
successful alpine skier, to the law and then head first into
federal politics.


Along the way, she managed to topple a former Prime Minister and
is now determined to represent her electorate by putting climate
action on the agenda in parliament.


She finds that her combination of careers, and the skills learnt
within them, that have enabled her to do the work she's doing
now.


And that includes working to end the climate wars in Australia:
to see this country taking real action on climate change.


She highlights the need to keep the pressure on policymakers,
particularly the government, to commit to what's needed.


Steggall speaks with Kate Mills in this episode of The Leadership
Lessons, made possible thanks to the support of Salesforce, where
we examine the leadership that's needed for the critical decade
ahead.


She describes how so much of her character was built in sport,
and the lessons within for all areas of leadership.


"I started ski racing at 4. I was very young. But I was always
one of those really competitive kids where I gave it 110%. I
trained really hard. And I really put in. I listened to the
coaches. I don't like cutting corners. I like doing the full
sets, the full reps, everything that needs to be done. I never
took no for an answer in the sense of anyone telling me what my
limitations were."


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