15. Meet my boss! Leadership lessons and navigating the unknown with Anna Tichborne, General Counsel, Megaport

Anna is a General Counsel with over 17 years' experience working for large and small-medium sized organisations in NZ, Australia and the USA. Anna has experience across varied practice areas including corporate/ M&A, competition and consumer law, privacy, dispute resolution and employment law across multiple jurisdictions. In this episode, we discuss: - what it’s like to work for entrepreneurs who move fast and need quick and pragmatic legal advice; - extending yourself outside purely legal work in the start-up environment when things just need to get done; - what it takes to lead a company from start up to ASX200 and what Anna is most proud of in her time at Megaport; - how Anna successfully manages a globally dispersed team; - why lawyers make excellent NFP board directors; and - Anna’s (not one but) two best pieces of career advice. Connect with Anna: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-tichborne-a9647946/ Website: https://www.facebook.com/CherishWomensCancerFoundation/ Connect with Mel: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissastoreyscott/ Counsel Podcast page on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/counsel-podcast Clubhouse: @inhouselawyer Instagram: @theinhouselawyer Email: [email protected]