Sonia Mcdonald

Jan 8, 2025 | smartcompany.com.au | David Adams |Steph Clarke |Sonia Mcdonald

You can’t learn everything about a person by the watch they wear. But Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to wear a US$900,000 timepiece, while announcing the end of fact-checking on Meta platforms, shows the billionaire’s changing relationship to physical displays of power and wealth.

Dec 3, 2024 | smartcompany.com.au | Ian Whitworth |Chryssie Swarbrick |Sonia Mcdonald

It’s a little depressing when a brand you’ve trusted all your life turns its back on what made it great. I have no inside information on what caused it. But there’s strong feeling of a C-Something person in there who can’t resist the sweet taste of large labour cuts, enabled by shiny new tech. Like the sweet purple taste of Grimace Shake, there’s an upfront pleasure hit. But the jury is very much out on the long-term health effects.

Apr 16, 2024 | smartcompany.com.au | Sonia Mcdonald

It is going to take a lot more than installing women’s toilets to correct the deep-seated gender imbalances in the construction industry. The entire sector needs a transformation — an educational overhaul where men learn to collaborate effectively with women on-site, and women are empowered to remain confident and assertive in their roles.

Mar 7, 2024 | kochiesbusinessbuilders.com.au | Sonia Mcdonald

Award-winning author and leadership advisor Sonia McDonald shares how her determination to be a role model and provide for her daughter has led to an international career; and what this year’s IWD theme, Count Her In, means to her. I was one of the girls at school who had a picture journal with cutouts of my dream life of getting married and having children in that house with the white picket fence. Yeah, right…maybe it was all the Disney storybooks.