HB Blog: Follow the journey
Celebrating the Return of the Island Sky from Antarctica
As we warmly welcomed back the intrepid women of Homeward Bound from their Ushuaia voyage last week, we are equally thrilled to celebrate the safe return of the Island Sky. The Island Sky embarked on its own adventure from Puerto Madryn, Argentina, on November 12....
Celebrating Excellence: Dr. Paola Magni
Homeward Bound extends our congratulations to Dr. Paola Magni, an alumna of Homeward Bound (HB6), a distinguished forensic scientist and an innovative thinker, for her recognition as a finalist in the 2024 Australian of the Year awards for Western Australia. Dr. Magni...
Celebrating the Return of the Ushuaia from Antarctica
We are overjoyed to welcome back the intrepid women of Homeward Bound who recently voyaged on the Ushuaia ship to Antarctica, marking the end of an incredible 19-day journey at sea. The Ushuaia has safely returned to its origin in Ushuaia, Argentina, carrying with it...
SBS World News – Biggest ever group of scientists’ head to Antarctica
On Saturday, 18 November 2023, SBS World News highlighted our remarkable contingent of Homeward Bound women, marking the biggest ever group of female scientists, as they journey to Antarctica. The extensive media coverage underscores their vision to inspire...
Jodi Schmidt, Expedition Leader on The Ushuaia, Antarctica
Meet Jodi Schmidt, Homeward Bound board chair and expedition leader of The Ushuaia voyage, currently navigating the waters of Antarctica. The heart and soul of Homeward Bound is with the 80+ women, with a STEMM background, accompanying Jodi on board, each bringing...
Christiana Figueres Inspires Women of Homeward Bound
This week, on November 3rd, one of Homeward Bound's two voyages to Antarctica departs from Ushuaia, Argentina, as part of Homeward Bounds largest all-women expedition. Prior to the upcoming voyages Christiana Figueres graced the Homeward Bound community with her...
Meet four extraordinary women representing Africa
Hailing from South Africa, Kenya, and Zimbabwe, these visionary individuals are part of the African cohort preparing for Homeward Bound's historic 19-day expedition to Antarctica this November. In a recent webinar hosted by Homeward Bound's CEO, Pamela Sutton-Legaud,...
Melissa Cristina Márquez from HB4 shares her Antarctica voyage experience
Meet Melissa Cristina Márquez a wildlife educator and marine scientist whose research focuses on the habitat use and media portrayal of Chondrichthyan (sharks, stingrays, skates, and chimaeras). She voyaged to Antarctica as part of HB4 and shares her experience. Read...
Celebrating Success: Homeward Bound’s Trailblazing Women’s Antarctica Expedition Launch Event
We're thrilled to share the resounding success of the recent launch event with our community in Melbourne, on September 19, 2023. It was a remarkable gathering that unveiled extraordinary perspectives on global action and women leaders with a STEMM background....
Meet Dr Deborah O’Connell, lead facilitator on The Island Sky voyage 2023
Dr Deborah O’Connell is the lead facilitator on the Homeward Bound The Island Sky voyage which departs Puerto Madryn, Argentina on November 12. She is a climate and disaster resilience specialist, a participant on the first Homeward Bound voyage (HB1) in 2016 and has...
Meet Kate MacMaster, lead facilitator on The Ushuaia 2023 voyage
Kate MacMaster is the lead facilitator on the Homeward Bound The Ushuaia voyage which departs Ushuaia, Argentina on November 3. Here she discusses the vast amount of preparation that goes into taking 88 women leaders with a STEMM background on the voyage.
Cécile Ndjebet awarded climate action prize
Homeward Bound Busara Circle member Cécile Ndjebet is a joint winner of the prestigious Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity which celebrates global climate action and solutions that inspire hope.
HB8 Spotlight: Emma J King
Meet Dr Emma J King from Homeward Bound 8: a neurodivergent science communicator, space enthusiast and entrepreneur with a background in physics and a passion for wildlife and conservation. Dr King was one of the top 2% of candidates in the 2021 European Space Agency astronaut selection process.
Faculty Spotlight: Aaniyah Martin, Science facilitator
Meet Aaniyah Martin, a science facilitator at Homeward Bound who has 15 years of experience in the conservation sector with a strong emphasis on finding the balance for what is good for the Earth and good for the people. Aaniyah lives in Cape Town, South Africa.
“It is so important to know yourself”: The Busara Circle’s Lori Campbell
Meet Lori Campbell: inaugural Associate Vice-President (Indigenous Engagement) at the University of Regina in Canada. Lori is a Two-Spirit Cree-Metis woman, the granddaughter of a residential school survivor, a survivor of the Sixties Scoop, and a new recruit to Homeward Bound’s Busara Circle, a group of women who Homeward Bound calls on for their wisdom, experience and leadership.
HB8 Spotlight: Lauren Fritz, marine advocate
Meet Lauren Fritz, a PhD student in marine mammal ecology based at the University of California who initially studied chemical engineering and developed a love for the ocean when she studied abroad in Perth, Australia. Lauren is a member of HB8.
“We can train our brains to do anything”: Meet fLorence Cotel from HB7
The neuroscientist, entrepreneur, endurance athlete and inspirational speaker wants to inspire people to realise their dreams and help prevent burnout.
“Diverse talented women” join the Homeward Bound 8 leadership initiative
We are proud to launch Homeward Bound 8: a cohort of more than 110 women from 18 countries and 25 nationalities, who were selected for our global leadership initiative based on their outstanding potential to lead and to create better outcomes for the planet.
“Leadership has the influence to change policies”: Filipina geochemist awarded Homeward Bound scholarship
Farrah Hiramis, a geothermal geochemist from the Philippines who is passionate about harnessing renewable energy, is the recipient of a Homeward Bound scholarship supported by BOC.
STEMM still a challenging place for women, say leaders
Four Homeward Bound 1 alumnae: environmental scientist Dr Anne Christianson, malariologist Dr Sarah Charnaud, sustainable buildings advocate Dr Samantha Hall and sociologist Professor Meredith Nash are featured in The Leadership Professional Development Videos launched today in partnership with The Leadership Film and Homeward Bound. The four case studies have been developed for use by professional facilitators, corporate trainers, educators and government managers to create awareness of systemic gender inequality, illustrate the significant personal impact of issues such as harrassment, imposter syndrome and the gender pay gap on women in STEMM and the wider female workforce, and motivate real and lasting change in the workplace.
World’s largest initiative to elevate the visibility of women heading to Antarctica
“Antarctica is the inspiration for collaboration for these leaders, a place to be inspired to work together,” Homeward Bound CEO Pamela Sutton-Legaud says. “Seeing first-hand this dramatic landscape under attack from the climate cements the intention for the women to collaborate as leaders.”
Homeward Bound is thrilled to announce that almost 180 women who are leaders from 25 countries will voyage on two ships to Antarctica with Homeward Bound in November to ensure the sustainability of the planet.
“If you don’t have African women, you don’t have Africa”
Meet Busara Circle recruit Cécile Ndjebet, a professional agronomist and social forestry engineer from Cameroon, who specialises in gender, and is a trainer and advisor in women’s leadership.
The outdoors has always been Betty Trummel’s classroom
Educator Betty Trummel from Homeward Bound 1 has travelled around the globe learning about and teaching environmental science, including several research trips to Antarctica.
I was a Meteorologist in Antarctica
Louise Carroll from #TeamHB7 has been a meteorologist at Davis, Casey and Macquarie Island and is planning to return for her fifth expedition this summer. The meteorologist at the Bureau of Meteorology in Canberra explains what drew her to the field of meteorology, and why she keeps returning to Antarctica.
“A safe space to reflect”: the importance of coaching at Homeward Bound
In the Homeward Bound program, participants will have one-on-one coaching sessions delivered by one of Homeward Bound’s 60+ global community of coaches who are accredited to use Human Synergistics’ Life Styles Inventory (LSI), a powerful assessment tool. In this interview, Homeward Bound’s Lead Coach Simon Osborne, and coach Natacha Wilson, describe the LSI and what participants can expect to gain from working with coaches in the program.
The Convergence: committed, compassionate and ready to lead
On completion of the virtual Homeward Bound program, participants become members of a global alumnae network called The Convergence. Here, Convergence members Jana Schniete (HB4), Roshni Sharma (HB5) and Katharina Heil (HB6) describe the purpose of the collaborative volunteer endeavour and some Convergence projects.
Curiosity, challenge and impact: an insight into Homeward Bound’s Leadership program
The Homeward Bound global leadership initiative is structured around four core program streams, each led by facilitators who have expert knowledge in those areas. Here, the facilitators of the Leadership stream in the current Homeward Bound 7 program, Jo Porter (left) and Christine Seddon, describe what participants learn about leadership in the Homeward Bound program.
‘Shifting the Culture’: HB alumna reflects on impactful program
Karin Verspoor was a computational linguist who worked at the intersection of technology, science, and medicine when she joined Homeward Bound’s third cohort, or TeamHB3, in 2018. In this interview, Professor Verspoor describes the impact of the Homeward Bound program on her leadership and career.
Homeward Bound announces scholarship opportunity for South Pacific woman in STEMM
Homeward Bound today announced a new scholarship supported by BOC that will provide one woman with a background in STEMM the opportunity to participate in the ground-breaking Homeward Bound leadership initiative. The full scholarship is open to women across the South Pacific region including Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, New Zealand or Australia.
HB7 Spotlight: Susan McDonald
Susan McDonald is an Electrical and Mechanical Engineer with over 11 years of experience in designing and overseeing major engineering infrastructure programmes in the power, utilities and renewables sector. She is the Energy Transition Lead within Deloitte‚ Net Zero Transformation Strategy team and she’s also been awarded for her work in reimagining at-home COVID19 tests to make them more inclusive and accessible.
Urgent effort needed to curb pandemic’s ‘astounding’ plastic problem
During COVID-19, 129 billion masks and 65 billion gloves are being consumed, while 42 billion plastic cups and 40 billion plastic bottles are being used on a monthly basis. This is contributing to a rise in major health and environmental issues such as entanglement of wildlife, microplastic bioaccumulation, even reproduction issues in people, eight women in STEMM from #TeamHB4 and #TeamHB5 have found.
“The world needs your unique gifts and insights”: The Busara Circle’s Hinemoa Elder
Dr Hinemoa Elder is a child and adolescent psychiatrist in New Zealand. She is of Ngāti Kuri, Te Aupōuri, Te Rarawa and Ngāpuhi descent and is a staunch advocate for Te Reo Māori me ōna tikanga, the Māori language and cultural lore. The HB4 participant is a new recruit to Homeward Bound’s Busara Circle, a group of women who Homeward Bound calls on for their wisdom, experience and leadership.
HB7 Spotlight: Linda Keyes
Women remain underrepresented in emergency medicine and in the niche fields of wilderness and high altitude medicine. We need women leaders as role models, and the women leaders we have need to actively raise up the next generation.
Homeward Bound’s statement on global conflict
“Leadership calls on us all not to ignore global human suffering.”
The board of Homeward Bound makes this statement in response to the wars being fought around the world.
Learning to Lead During the Global Pandemic: Bernie-Anne Freeman
I’ve just wrapped up the first part of an experience like no other. It all began in June 2019, when I was selected for the fifth cohort Homeward Bound (HB), a global leadership program for women in STEM. This connects likeminded women from around the globe for an intensive online leadership program that culminates with a voyage to Antarctica.
5 ways climate change boosts tsunami threat, from collapsing ice shelves to sea level rise
Most tsunamis are caused by earthquakes, but a significant percentage (about 15%) are caused by landslides or volcanoes. Some of these may be interlinked – for example, landslide tsunamis are often triggered by earthquakes or volcanic eruptions. But does climate change also play a role? #TeamHB6’s Jane Cunneen is a geologist specialising in plate tectonics, geophysics, earthquakes, tsunamis, and natural hazard mitigation.
Why tackling leadership capability might be one of the best things we can do to solve wicked problems
Right now our world is facing some wicked problems. Leading the field is the evident and pressing challenge of the climate crisis. We are heading towards a temperature and its consequences, with fierce determination.
Celebrating the “right kind” of leader
Homeward Bound wellbeing faculty member Sandra Radovini’s promotion to Professor at The University of Melbourne is an event to be celebrated because it is rare to find women like Sandra, who don’t follow the prescribed academic path, elevated to these roles.
Why women in STEMM need a whole of life personal strategy
Putting together a leadership program for women in STEMM with the potential to ensure the sustainability of the planet is not a task for the faint hearted. Kit Jackson was on board the Homeward Bound “ship” from the start, identifying early on that these women needed more than business strategy tools to be effective leaders. They needed a Personal Strategy.
Homeward Bound awarded for scientific and cultural relations between Australia and Spain
Homeward Bound has been chosen as the recipient of the IV Malaspina Award in recognition its global work advancing the leadership capability of women in STEMM.
Homeward Bound STEMM leaders take kids’ climate message to COP26
A giant banner of drawings by over 2500 children from around the world, including 1,891 Australian kids, will go on display this week at COP26 in Glasgow.
#HBClimateLeaders at COP26 Glasgow
The COP26 summit in Glasgow runs from 31 October until 1 November 2021, brining together governments and other parties from around the world to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Antarctica is running out of time: Homeward Bound collaboration calls for new MPA
AntarcticaNOW is an international group of women in Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths and Medicine (STEMM) with disciplinary fields ranging from Antarctic research to conservation biology and public policy. It was founded by members of #TeamHB4, during the world’s largest ever all-woman expedition to Antarctica in 2019. AntarcticaNOW members are united by a single cause: protecting the spectacular biodiversity of Antarctica.
Leadership lessons driving the race to net zero: Lorna Slater
Everything about our society is built on consuming as much as possible. Our economy, our social status, our success markers, our ‘normal’, is all built on buying more, more, more. Unfortunately this leads to a narrative that tackling the climate crisis means that we have to live poorer lives, when in fact is that it means that we can live lives that recognise what really matters: family, friends, time well spent, meaningful work, abundant nature.
Questions on leadership for #TeamHB5
This week marks the end of the virtual development journey for the 5th cohort of Homeward Bound, #TeamHB5. For the past 18 months, 80 incredible women in STEMM , from all over the world, have come together every month to strengthen their connections as a community and to evolve their leadership practice.
Why women’s visibility is a central pillar of Homeward Bound
“You can give women leaders the best training in leadership, strategy and science, but if they don’t know how to make themselves seen and their real capability remains invisible, then all that potential might go to waste. And we simply don’t have time for that to happen.” So say the directors of Visibility Co, the team behind Homeward Bound’s visibility stream.
Inclusion – space to recognise and challenge implicit bias
Implicit biases are based on our unconscious stereotypes and shape our social preferences and behaviour. We want to believe that we are not racist or sexist. However, being brought up in a certain cultural context makes unconscious biased reactions inevitable.
The #TeamHB4’s Katja Ovchinnikova learnt about bias studies, the more motivated she was to promote diversity and inclusion in STEMM.
Welcome our new CEO, Pamela Sutton-Legaud
The Board is excited to announce the appointment of Pamela Sutton-Legaud as the new CEO of Homeward Bound.
The leadership we need
Homeward Bound founder Fabian Dattner encourages men and women everywhere to be more as leaders and to expect and ask for more from leaders above them.
Eureka! Homeward Bound faculty Prof. Sharon Robinson.
Homeward Bound science stream facilitator Professor Sharon Robinson from the Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health at the University of Wollongong (UOW) is a finalist in the 2021 Australian Museum Eureka Prize for leadership in innovation and science.
Our Sunburnt Country – Anika Molesworth
#TeamHB4’s Anika Molesworth is a farmer, scientist and storyteller. Her book, Our Sunburnt Country, tells of the heartache the decade-long Millennium drought, climate change and her hope-filled vision for the future.
Leading the science – Nicole Webster #TeamHB1
“If I reflect on my time with Homeward Bound, I think probably one of the biggest take homes for me was just this eye-opening exposure to some of the challenges that my female colleagues had faced throughout their careers.”
‘Existential threat to our survival’: see the 19 Australian ecosystems already collapsing
Members of the Homeward Bound community has been part of a comprehensive evaluation of the environmental state of play in Australia, which shows major and iconic ecosystems are collapsing across the continent and into Antarctica.
This is our time podcast launch
Series 2 of the This Is Our Time podcast, recording during the 2018 voyage of Homeward Bound 2, was launched last week with an online celebration.
“Jailed Indefinitely”: #TeamHB6’s Liz Rickman on leadership
In June 2002 #TeamHB6’s Liz Rickman took her turn as a peaceful Greenpeace protestor chained aboard the M/S Fagervik at the Swedish port of Norrköping. When police boarded the ship, cutting through the chains and taking Liz and two companions into custody, she was calm and felt assured that the “normal process” would follow. But it didn’t.
Networks are key to advancing Women in STEM
A report from The Asia Foundation shows how women’s STEM networks, such as Homeward Bound, play an important role in overcoming barriers and advancing opportunities for women and girls; for example, to create and sustain a space for sharing, support, and mentorship.
Sylvia Earle – Filmed Faculty
Sylvia Earle, in her 80s, is mesmerising in her intelligence. Marine biologist, oceanographer, explorer, author, lecturer, explorer-in-residence since 1998 for National Geographic, first female chief scientist of the U.S. NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, and named by TIME as its first Hero for the Planet in 1998. She was interviewed in October 2016 by Fabian Dattner for Homeward Bound Projects. Hear her telling of decades old sexism and the facts of her leadership of the Tektite Project in 1970.
What are the drivers of wellbeing for leaders?
Giving women the skills to be willing and capable of taking their place as leaders means addressing and working on wellbeing. Homeward Bound is using the evidence-based set of tools in the Global Leadership Wellness Survey (GLWS) in the online component of the leadership program, helping participants gain a complete view of factors affecting energy, resilience, and wellbeing, and the resources to meaningfully improve them for themselves, their teams and their organisation.
HB scientist calls for a stronger high seas treaty
“We’ve got a closing window of opportunity to do the right thing! The High Seas treaty is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to change how we manage our global ocean.” Nichola Clarke, #TeamHB6
Love letter to Clare Bowditch – National Press Club
Clare Bowditch is a beloved Australian award-winning musician, actor, author, and speaker on topics of modern mental health, big-hearted business, and all things “being woman” and is part of the onboard filmed faculty for Homeward Bound. This week she spoke at the National Press Club of Australia on “Music, Meaning and Money”. HB’s visionary founder Fabian Dattner shares this love letter to a great leader.
Australian Bushfire impact
Following the 2019-2020 Australian bushfire season, a small group of women from #TeamHB4 took the lead on writing an open letter to the Prime Minister with the hope to influence Australia to switch from coal-burning to 100% renewable energy powered by the sun and wind.
Community is key to conservation – Moreangels Mbizah – #TeamHB6
We are the “community” and if we want to see lions in the wild, if we want our children and great grandchildren to see lions – then whether you live in the USA or in the UK or live alongside them in an African village, you have to be involved in their protection.
2021 Scholarships announced
Improving diversity and inclusion in our programs is a key priority for Homeward Bound, and and we are delighted to announce two scholarships that offer financial support to #TeamHB6.
Virus hunter Cassandra Berry inspires creativity in science
As females, perhaps our empathy with others drives us to succeed in ventures and dive deeper to understand different facets of problems to solve.
Jane Goodall – Filmed Faculty
In 2016 Homeward Bound founder Fabian Dattner flew around the world, talking to amazing women leaders about leadership for our planet.
This excerpt from Dr Jane Goodall explores the sort of leadership the world needs now.
HB6 Spotlight – Abeer Al Saud
The fuel in my being is energized by working and I enjoy the thrill of doing things that evoke my passion. Whenever I realize that my actions and beliefs change archaic routines, that stimulates me to move one.
An open letter to #TeamHB6
Homeward Bound is an inspirational, focused, pragmatic, global collaboration for and with women in STEMM, to role model and evolve a very different way of leading. We share common cause – to care for Earth as our home, and we have the expertise, intellect and will to do something about it.
Search for a new CEO begins
The Homeward Bound Board is excited to announce that Homeward Bound has begun the search for a new CEO to manage the next phase of expansion and growth of this incredible leadership initiative.
Leadership in times of trauma
… leadership is everywhere; not just in those positions labeled as such. All of us can apply the principles of trauma leadership every day. We can apply it to ourselves, our families and workplaces, and the way we show up in the world.
Leading for the greater good in times of crisis: Homeward Bound’s leadership stream
At the heart of Homeward Bound is the foundational belief in women with a STEMM background leading for the greater good.
Visibility: The Key That Can Unlock Potential in People, Organisations and the Wider World
In these days of unprecedented uncertainty with the spread of COVID-19, the power of and need for effective, strategic and consistent communication from leaders is in focus more than ever. Every word spoken by politicians, health policy experts and scientists is...
CEO to CEO – It is Time to be Part of the Story, Not Apart from It: Musimbi Kanyoro
Photo credit: Juan Gama de Cossío What does a drop in the ocean mean for you? Something small? Insignificant? I think about this a lot. Once upon a time big change came from powerful leaders. Now it is coming from many places and many people. As a CEO of...
Homeward Bound: Learning leadership in and from Antarctica
Cassandra Brooks (left) and Dr Justine Shaw (right). Image: Will Rogan Icy wind from the Antarctic continent stings our faces as we crouch in the zodiacs straining to hear the crackling of the ice. Water rises and falls around us as if it’s breathing. Small pieces of...
Te mana o Hinehukapapa. We are ancestors of the future.
Walking up the snowy peak in Antarctica I am pinching myself. High above the ocean, the strange shapes of icebergs make for a surreal panorama. It is quite literally awe inspiring. It is a place where our Mother Earth reigns supreme. I am not alone. I stand with 100...
Q and A on Collaboration with Aparna Lal
MAKING RESEARCH USEFUL: THE POWER OF DEEPER COLLABORATION BETWEEN ACADEMIA AND POLICYMAKERS Q&A with Aparna Lal and Julia May, Co-founder, Visibility stream, Homeward Bound Aparna Lal is an ecologist and public health researcher interested in how environmental...
Final Reflections from #TeamHB4 | Ingrid Albion and Dr. Amanda Hensley
Imagine travelling on a journey away from everything familiar to you, to spend three weeks on an intensive journey of self-discovery. On this journey you develop and hone your leadership skills with 100 other like-minded, purpose-driven women in STEMM to build a...
Seven Climate Reality Leaders Take Collective Action in Antarctica
I find myself on a ship, anchored on a harbour in Antarctica. Outside the window, the silken water is broken by clumps of ice and framed by soaring, snow-covered mountains. On the ship with me are 100 extraordinary women from 33 countries, all driven by the same...
Leadership and Trust: Associate Professor Sandra Radovini
What is trust? Trust is a key pillar of all good relationships; it is the foundation that supports strong and long-lasting collaborations. It is the base of effective team work. Trust can be thought of as an invitation: an invitation to openness, to communication, to...
Learning from a Century of Leadership
As a marine ecologist, I applied for Homeward Bound without having any idea of what leadership could mean for a scientist like me. For a long time, the word leadership was beyond my grasp, for the simple reason that the word has no translation in French. However, I...
Happy Birthday Antarctica | How Science Diplomacy Can Save the Planet
We are sailing across the Antarctic Peninsula with Homeward Bound, a global leadership initiative aiming to connect and train women scientists from around the world to influence the policies and decisions that will shape the future of our planet. This is the largest...
We Need Trust to Build Strong Leaders
As a young woman, I was involved in a dance community. Before dancing, we held each other’s arms in pairs and stared into each other’s eyes while taking deep breaths. We then touched each other’s foreheads with our fingers and together said “I trust you because...
Leadership and Inclusiveness: Fern Wickson
When I was offered the role of Lead Facilitator for Homeward Bound 4, I was extremely excited but also a little bit daunted. Part of my job as lead facilitator is to enable a faculty of twelve exceptional women leaders from all around the world to deliver a leadership...
Welcome to Homeward Bound 4
By Dr Jen Martin (Visibility Faculty - Onboard Sci-Comms Facilitator) The clouds were sitting low, obscuring the mountains as the one hundred women of Team HB4 finally came together in Ushuaia last night for our welcome dinner. As we gathered, the noise levels...
Brave leaders fall and stand up again | Evguenia Alechine #TeamHB4
Resilience is the ability to mentally or emotionally cope with a difficult situation and to recover quickly from it. For leaders, resilience is key since difficult situations arise on a regular basis, both in our personal or professional lives. And, if I...
Leadership and Resilience: Fabian Dattner
Don’t confuse resilience with determination, or grit, or bloody mindedness. Don’t confuse it with flexibility or adaptability. It is all these things, but so much more when we talk about women, leadership and the state of our planet. Perhaps men and women are entirely...
Leading the Way with #TeamHB4
In just over a week, the fourth edition of Homeward Bound will be setting sail from Ushuaia, Argentina to one of the most ecologically pristine environments in the world ̶ Antarctica. On this journey, nearly 100 women with a background in STEMM (science, technology,...
FOR A SATISFYING CAREER, ENQUIRE WITHIN: DR MARIE CLARK
Rampant gender bias aside, one of the most concerning aspects of scientific funding trends in Australia is that already well-established investigators are being funded at the expense of those who are still developing as leaders. In essence, scientists are eating their young.
ON THE PRESERVATION OF WILD SPACES…GALÁPAGOS ISLANDS: DR SOPHIE ADAMS
The world is facing many challenges at the moment, not the least of which is the climate emergency and the preservation of the world’s biodiversity. We know that climate change threatens what we have assumed would be eternal. We also know that our economic and political systems make it harder to protect the world’s wilderness.
Welcome #TeamHB5!
Come and meet our fifth cohort
If… reflections on International Women’s Day: Fabian Dattner
Imagine if we didn’t need an International Women’s Day. Imagine if men and women worked in equal numbers, if men and women were leading our governments, our corporations, our efforts to tackle the myriad of environmental issues our planet faces equally.
Returning from Homeward Bound: Kelsie Clarke
Settling back into my day to day life was a strange experience. I had been through something similar once before, following a secondment into an Aboriginal organisation in Sydney, Australia. It’s almost a feeling of reverse culture-shock coming back to a life you know so well and cherish
Reflections on my (39th) birthday: Stephanie Langerock
Last Saturday was my birthday. I turned 39, the final ‘stop’ before I turn 40, an age often considered a turning point in life. Remember, “Life begins at 40”.
Embracing change with open arms: Steph Gardner
How many of you would feel comfortable with being asked to shut your eyes, spun around a few times, and then submit to trusting your partner to guide you to a new destination? Or even asked to take a step forward without knowing what is ahead? Do you lean into the unknown?
Unfurling layers of transformation with Homeward Bound: Cindy Shellito
“Do you feel totally changed?” A friend asked me after my return home from our Homeward Bound journey to Antarctica. I’ve just participated in a year-long transformational leadership program. If I haven’t ‘transformed’, does that mean it’s all been a waste of time and money?
Another change, another way forward: Fabian Dattner
As #TeamHB3 make their way home from Antarctica after a life-changing experience, we share more photos and reflections from aboard the #MVUshuaia. Stay tuned for more updates as the women return to their homes, families and lives, and apply their leadership lessons....
Reflexion on my voyage from the tropics to Antarctica: Yalimay Jiménez
The first time I come across Homeward Bound Program, an Australian initiative for women in STEMM, was when my current PhD supervisor sent an email congratulating a former PhD student for her achievement.
Practicing Yoga in Antarctica: Kristin Mitchell
As #TeamHB3 make their way home from Antarctica after a life-changing experience, we share more photos and reflections from aboard the #MVUshuaia. Stay tuned for more updates as the women return to their homes, families and lives, and apply their leadership lessons. I...
Life on the Ushuaia (not a luxury cruise!): Fabian Dattner
As #TeamHB3 make their way home from Antarctica after a life-changing experience, we share more photos and reflections from aboard the #MVUshuaia. Stay tuned for more updates as the women return to their homes, families and lives, and apply their leadership lessons....
Balance, poise and trust with #TeamHB3: Tara Shine
As #TeamHB3 make their way home from Antarctica after a life-changing experience, we share more photos and reflections from aboard the #MVUshuaia. Stay tuned for more updates as the women return to their homes, families and lives, and apply their leadership lessons....
Kids care about climate change – Marji Puotinen
As #TeamHB3 make their way home from Antarctica after a life-changing experience, we share more photos and reflections from aboard the #MVUshuaia. Stay tuned for more updates as the women return to their homes, families and lives, and apply their leadership lessons. I...