Skip to site contents

Fairfax Business Media network websites:

 

Saturday, 13 March 2010 - 3:55 AM EST

Young Executive of the Year 2010. Enter now!

The annual AFR BOSS Young Executive of the Year Awards are run in association with global talent management consultancy DDI. The awards, now in their seventh year, recognise the achievements of aspiring future leaders. We aim to identify six young Australians with the skills, talent and drive needed to make a successful future leader.

Entries are open now. Entries close 5pm, Monday, March 29. The winners will be announced in the JUNE 2010 issue of AFR BOSS.

>>Download the entry form here.

THE 2009 WINNERS

THE TALENT SCOUT

Amber Drum, 35
general manager
IPA recruitment
Melbourne

    

THE INNOVATOR

Paul Voges, 35
SMB & partner director
Microsoft Australia

    

THE CHANGE MANAGER

Cate Collins, 31
head of sustainability
Lend Lease Asia Pacific

    

THE STRATEGIST

David Perram, 35
development director
Mirvac Group

    

THE FORWARD THINKER

Matt Paterson, 35
head of operational
transformation
ING Australia

    

THE MOTIVATOR

Natalie Moore, 32
regional manager, Greater
Brisbane, Stockland

BOSS YOUNG EXECUTIVES OF THE YEAR 2009 JUDGING PANEL

BONNIE BOEZEMAN, AO

Chairman of PayPal Australia and deputy chair of the NSW State Lottery. Bonnie has been a judge of the AFR BOSS Young Executive of the Year Awards since 2004.

PATRICK GRIER

Director and former CEO of listed health care operator Ramsay Health Care.

STEVE VAMOS

President of the Society for Knowledge Economics, former vice president Microsoft International, Online Services Group and managing director Microsoft Australia.

AFR BOSS this month

AFR Boss magazine
AFR BOSS 10TH ANNIVERSARY

AFR BOSS celebrates a decade of publishing. We look back and check out the fads and the things that stuck that changed the way we work, live and do business.

REGULAR COLUMNS

workspace

WORK SPACE


A weekly look at work, people and performance. First published in Tuesday's AFR. Click here.


catherine fox

CORPORATE WOMAN


Catherine Fox's corporate woman column. Click here.



BOSS Guru: a guide to the unwritten laws of the workplace
Check out our online section dedicated to your questions to BOSS Guru.



AFR BOSS TV

Bruce Watt, DDI

workspaceBruce Watt, MD of Development Dimensions International tells AFR BOSS editor Narelle Hooper what the 'Young Executive of the Year' assessment and process involves, and what it takes to be a winner. Click here to view the video.

Welcome to AFR BOSS

Narellehooper MARCH issue out now!

AFR BOSS was a stripling newbie in March 2000. Readers asked then - as they do now - why name it BOSS? It's so hierarchical, it smacks of the things we want to see change about the rigidities of corporate life. Yes, we talk to the boss - and our conversations with leaders at all levels of the organisation help us learn from each other.

>> Read more

GOOD, BAD, UGLY 2009

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY

Strategies for the challenges faced by investors in 2009; the upside and the downside according to respected economists. Click here.

CAREER SURVIVAL GUIDE

Tips for managing your career in a volatile environment. Click here.