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.

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