Arete Podcast With Richard Triggs

In this episode, I chat to Moira Harris, the managing director of Hygrade Water Australia, a family-owned startup. The company manufactures, imports and distributes specialised water-related products for the civil construction industry, and employs 25 people across its two branches in Brisbane and Sydney. Moira is a strong business leader with experience in operations management, sales management, negotiation, marketing and stakeholder relations - all roles she held since emigrating from Scotland to Australia in 2000. She shares the lessons she’s learned along the way as a female in male-dominated industries, and as the managing director of a ‘isolated’ startup in Australia. Moira also touches in the pressure to assimilate and how executive coaching has taught her to stay true to herself. Episode highlights: Background of Hygrade Water Australia - a startup of parent company, New Zealand-based Hynds Group Most of Hygrade Water’s products are brought in from Europe - specialised products Why the owner