After three decades more or less confined to the peanut gallery of the United Nations, the indications now are that Prime Minister Julia Gillard will support a bid by Australia to become an elected member of the United Nations Security Council (for which former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is widely acknowledged as having had considerable…
Category: Coffee cart
A lot goes on for our team besides what might end up in a client report, or as part of another paper that we are thinking about. For example, we are all involved in community service work, which often connects to our professional skills – but then there are also bunches of interesting things that happen in the swirl of our coffee-induced reality!!
Hear about all the extras and get the less formal headlines from our work here at the Coffee Cart.
What’s with the coffee thing?
Right from when we were first in business, our work was fuelled by our unashamed coffee habit – and not just for its welcome inspirational qualities! Our business model has been to have lower financial risks, and be more flexible for clients and for our team members, by the simple expedient of not having business…
2012 NSW Women of the Year Awards
The Strangers’ Dining Room of Parliament House was the scene this week for the 2012 NSW Women of the Year Awards, which saw a fantastic variety of women recognised for their professional, personal and community endeavours. Women who had been nominated as a Local Women of the Year by their Member of NSW Parliament were…
(No) Coffee on the road … in Japan!
Congratulations to our long time office support chap, Alan, as he leaves today for a scholarship semester at the Hijiyama University in Hiroshima, Japan. Alan, who has more recently become our adviser on languages, will study several subjects to complete a major in Japanese language as part of his degree programme. The innovation of having…
Coffee on the “road” … in Timor!
We really aren’t kidding about our whole coffee thing! This time around Managing Director Carolyn Evans and Creative Consultant Roslyn Hull have been experiencing the roads all around Timor Leste – no longer the most recent member of the United Nations but still awaiting their 10th anniversary of membership. Discovering “cafe Timor”, the local brew,…
Coffee on the road … somewhere in Peru!
When we say we are multi-lingual in coffee, we really mean it! The latest item in our repertoire came from two weeks in Peru for Managing Director Carolyn Evans and Principal Consultant Tanya van der Wall, on the road for one of our not-for-profit clients. Putting their bodies on the line for the team, they…
Putting the body on the line for the team (again!)
Many of our clients are highly engaged by our commitment to community service – which is not just pro bono work or having the firm kick the tin for a worthy cause. We like to walk this talk with most of the team involved directly in a range of worthy causes, whether through membership, fundraising…
All in a day’s work … or study
As they absorb Gen Y, like many employers universities are struggling to understand whether this generation is really any different – or perhaps if the larger challenge is that so many generations are in the workplace simultaneously. For example – are they more selfish and need to be taught the value of contributing to the…
Coffee on the (volunteering) road
Q: What do Chicago in winter, San Antonio in a hurricane, and Turin in late spring have in common? A: They are all places on the trail for our intrepid Managing Director while at work for her voluntary service with Zonta International – and rumour has it that they all have stellar coffee culture! “No…
Coffee on the road … in Aotearoa
We try to be polite about it, and not gloat, but one part of our work that we really love is exploring. Exploring a problem is the best deal in town, and when it comes with a side order of coffee in beautiful places, it is easy to do great work and find a fantastic…
All in a good cause!
Putting his body on the line for the team, our office assistant Alan went under the razor out at his university today to shave his head to support research into leukaemia. Go Al! Of course, let us know if you want to contribute to his fundraising for this worthwhile cause.
When too much coffee is really not enough …
In what many thought might be a moderately quiet year due to the much discussed GFC, our fearless leader, Carolyn, took the initiative to go back to uni – a big call when you were last in the hallowed halls of learning along about the time of the last ice age! So February 2009 saw…
Never stuck behind the desk
The Sydney Morning Herald today carried this article by Julia Talevski, in which she quoted from an interview with Carolyn Evans, Managing Director of ThinkEvans. The article also carried this image of Carolyn having a coffee meeting with ThinkEvans Principal Consultant Tanya van der Wall at Coogee beach in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. The full article…
Will too much coffee be enough?
No time for tender egos, our intrepid Managing Director is putting her money where her mouth is on professional development and returning to uni – no small thing after a break of more than 20 years! The last time she darkened the door of a campus, Carolyn was graduating from her MBA in 1988, after…
Shine on!
It would be hard to find anyone who becomes more immersed in their work than our Ros! Seen here “in character” as a fairy, just think how she looks when being “Mrs Bunyip” for which she is famous with thousands of school children who have visited Canberra in recent years. So just when you thought…
Shiny!
It is no secret that we are very proud of our up and coming team members – not least Sharna, who has been with us since graduating from her double degree and completing her honours year. But wait – there’s more! We have just received confirmation that Sharna has been accepted to commence her PhD…
Vail Alexander Solzhenitsyn, старший раскольник
Closer to the dawn of time, when I was at high school, the nerds of a generation got their illicit jollies by reading really daring, subversive things like One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Subversive for both left and right – left because it discredited the communist motherland, right because well, it was…
Vive le revolution!
We are big fans of the ‘marketing chick’ (of unknown gender) who lurks on the team of our local pub. How so? Point 1: the pub will gear up and ‘celebrate’ at the drop of a hat, and show no signs at all of the sentiments found elsewhere (say, around a randomly selected stockmarket over…