About this episode

Esther Colwill shares how climbing the seven summits has influenced her professional and personal life.

From a young age, Esther Colwill, a former partner at Deloitte and now country head for Australia at Korn Ferry, dreamt of climbing the highest peaks on each of the seven continents, including, of course, Mount Everest. Colwill succeeded, emerging with critical lessons that have helped her in both her private and professional life. On this week’s episode, BOSS editor Sally Patten finds out how having a goal outside work spurred on this executive’s professional career. This podcast was sponsored by Aussie Broadband . Further reading: Do what others won’t do: AFL great Chris Judd’s formula for success The former sports star and founder and portfolio manager of Cerutty Macro Fund has one rule that changed the course of his career. This exec left banking to buy a caravan park. Now he runs an empire Grant Wilckens co-founded G’day Group in 2004 and never looked back – apart from the time when he could have lost everything. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Host: Sally Patten

Guest: Esther Colwill

Topics covered

• personal development
• goal setting
• professional growth
• mountaineering
• leadership

Keywords

• seven summits
• Esther Colwill
• mountaineering
• professional development
• goal setting

Sponsors

Aussie Broadband

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Deloitte, Korn Ferry, G’day Group

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