by Samantha Cotgrave | Oct 8, 2021 | Interchange Bench, The Slade Report
Remember 2019? It was late that year when I took the Melbourne-based role of General Manager for Slade Group and the Interchange Bench. I’d come fresh off an extended break, including giving myself the time to do the Camino De Santiago Trail, to find some ‘me time’...
by Samantha Cotgrave | Jun 26, 2020 | Interchange Bench, The Slade Report
If we don’t see ourselves as Professional Services Consultants, then why should our clients? I finished my tertiary study as an Economics Graduate with many options for a career, yet can’t imagine any other role could have given me the sense of purpose and...
by Samantha Cotgrave | Apr 22, 2020 | Interchange Bench
My grandfather was a Digger – a Navigator for the RAAF in WW2 in New Guinea and the Coral Sea. He saw the best and worst in men, fighting on both sides. He rarely spoke of it, but when I was nine years old, he took our whole family on a trip, by boat, to deepen our...
by Samantha Cotgrave | Apr 7, 2020 | Interchange Bench
It was while waiting to cross at the lights on Spring Street last week, standing (suitably) apart from a couple on my walk home, when I overheard one say, “Things will really get bad when Bunnings closes.” I wanted to step closer and join that conversation. Unable to,...
