Meet our Coaches: Karen Smith - Kademy - chunk 5

and their teams to develop, navigate change and create great results for their organisations. How did you first get into Communication? I was a journalist, working in travel, tourism and aviation trade press, and moved into a communication role for Ansett, then Australia’s biggest airline (this was the mid 1990s). It was only afterwards that I realised how much my aviation business acumen helped me make an immediate impact as a business partner (when I moved into another industry without that specialist industry expertise). What’s your proudest moment from being an in-house comms leader? Ansett is pretty hard to beat.