Carole-Anne Priest

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Directors’ and Officers’ Liabilities: Are You Covered If Things Go Wrong?

By Carole-Anne Priest

If you hold a position as a Director or Officer within a company, you are legally responsible for managing the company’s business activities.

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Topics: Insurance, Imalia, Directors & Officers Cover


Insurance For Home-Based Business Owners: Are You Covered?

By Carole-Anne Priest

Government statistics show that over six hundred thousand women in Australia operate their own small business.

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Topics: Insurance, Women, Home Business Insurance, Home Business, Small Business


Keeping Your Professional And Community Board Life Covered

By Carole-Anne Priest

Serving on boards is an ambition many of us strive for.

In the commercial space, board positions allow individuals to drive strategy and take responsibility for the aspirations of employees, and the financial returns expected by shareholders.

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Topics: Personal Director's Cover, Community Life, Board Life, Non-Profit, Board Member


Global Sisters Making Independence A Reality For Financially-Excluded Women

By Carole-Anne Priest

Those of us with financial independence can sometimes take it for granted.  We have steady incomes, we’re confident in our ability to manage our outgoings, we have built careers that underpin this fundamental human need, we have social networks that support us, and we have partnerships with loved ones who share the load.

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Topics: Global Sisters, Financial Independence, Mandy Richards, Disadvantaged women


Why We Need More Women In The C-Suite

By Carole-Anne Priest

Did you know that fewer large Australian companies are run by women than are run by men named John? Just 19 ASX200 companies are run by women as CEO or chair, compared to 85 by men named John, Peter and David. That’s less than ten per cent.

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Topics: C-Suite, Women in the C-Suite, Gender Gap


Six Crucial Lessons When Launching Your Own Business

By Carole-Anne Priest

Most small businesses (including those that grow to become very large ones) start with a passion for a product, a vision for an improvement, to disrupt the status quo, perhaps to create a better world.

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Topics: Financial Literacy, Business Profile, Wellbeing For Dogs, Launching your own business, Helen McNall


What Is Your Relationship To Money?

By Carole-Anne Priest

Many of us spend a significant amount of time worrying about the scarcity of money in our lives. A large number of us have also bought into the prevailing norm that money is a scarce commodity, one that needs to be relentlessly pursued, often at any cost.

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Topics: Imalia, Empowering Women, The Soul of Money


Financial Literacy: What It Is and Why It Is Important For Women

By Carole-Anne Priest

ASICs 2014-2017 Financial Literacy Strategy document makes it clear why financial literacy is so important for women.

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Topics: Women, Imalia, Financial Literacy


Empowering Women - Models That Work: Grameen Bank

By Carole-Anne Priest

Western cultural norms often condition us to believe that doing things differently isn’t possible. The marketing and PR of large institutions with vested interests in maintaining the status quo have served to influence these perspectives.

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Topics: Imalia, Models That Work, Grameen Bank, Empowering Women


Meet Imalia Founder Carole-Anne Priest, disrupting the financial services sector

By Carole-Anne Priest

I have always been passionate, and oftentimes angry, at the injustices and imbalances I see in our society. And no more so when this injustice involves women and their equal place in all aspects of our world.

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Topics: Insurance, Finance, Women, Imalia, Carole-Anne Priest, Financial Literacy



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