2020 Resilience Awards

Mentwell founder Nikki Williams wants the startup to be the missing link in solving the mental health crisis for consumers and businesses.

Longer-term funding opportunities are on the table for the states and territories as part of a proposed five-year National Skills Agreement (NSA) to be nutted out this year.

A slight improvement in the national gender pay gap to 13.3% has been reported, bringing the current status quo to Australian women pocketing, on average, 87 cents for their work to every dollar earned by a man.

Allowing pensioners to get back in the workforce could empower the cohort and solve the staff shortage crisis as 30,000 retail jobs remain vacant across Australia, the retailers association says.

Businesses have been put on notice about getting more women into top roles after NSW Treasurer Matt Kean set formal gender diversity targets for state-owned and public financial corporations.

When coronavirus lockdowns first came into effect, half of the Work Healthy Australia team could no longer do their regular tasks.

For Linktree co-founder Alex Zaccaria, 2020 has taught him not to underestimate the importance of team culture when growing a business.

When Cynch Security switched to remote working, co-owner Susie Jones says her biggest concern was the wellbeing of her people.

While many businesses were standing down or letting go employees when the pandemic hit, Payright was facing a very different challenge.

For Kath Blackham’s digital agency Versa, the pandemic simply reinforced the company’s belief that “happy people create outstanding work”.