As part of the Ansett collapse 10 years ago now, we are celebrating our 10 year anniversary in September 2011. It has been an amazing 10 years of transition and change for me and 17,000 other Ansett employees. I have been encouraged to collect your stories of inspiration, and change, and present them in a wonderful book which will be launched on our anniversary this year, September 2011.

So if you are an Ansett person who is interested in broadcasting their story, telling it like it was at the time of the collapse, as well as updating us on what you have learnt about change and transition,…. l want to hear from you. The collapse changed my life, and made me review my nature of work. I now assist people with change and transition, rather then administer it.. in a corporate HR role.

At this mornings, leadership and Entrepreneurs breakfast we listened to the experienced Ern Prentice - Australian Sports Leadership Network, who has spent over 15 years perfecting positive behaviour in sporting teams. Ern has worked with AFL (Australian Football League) teams, Soccer and Netball sporting teams on monitoring success and successful performance.

I  had the wonderful opportunity to listen to the amazing and newly improved much thinner Kevin Sheedy sports star, ex footballer, and Ex Coach of Essendon football Club the other night. He gave a keynote address, and it was just what l needed! Kevin reminded us about life’s responsibilities for us. He said that “Life was a gift from our parents’! Wow yes that’s right it is. We need to recognise the people around us that inspire us. They could be neighbours, family, sporting groups, etc. There are many mentors and support crew around us all the time. I wondered if I really kept all of mine up to date with all that l was doing, and thought, probably not?