#71 – Balancing Career and Family with Carina O’Brien

Doc Frank chats with Carina O'Brien from Melbourne in Australia. She is not only the Head of Strategy of a large multinational railway systems supplier, but has also initiated the Working Mumma project which includes a podcast and various other resources to support working parents.

Expect to learn important insights on how to balance career, family and passion projects, where to find support as a working parent, how diversity can help tackling the resource shortage in the railway industry, ways for attracting young women to railways, the importance of workforce flexibility, trends facing the Australian rail industry, the Australian interoperability challenge, and much more.

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Show notes:

1)      Carina’s Working Mumma project is an outstanding resource supporting women (and men) who want to combine parenting with a thriving professional career. Check out the website https://workingmumma.com.au/ where you also find links to the Working Mumma podcast.

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