Expat Playbook

From diplomatic service to leading across Asia's most dynamic markets, Penny Burtt joins the Expat Playbook to unpack a career in which she most recently served as President, Southeast Asia at Boeing. In a career spanning the business, government and nonprofit sectors, Penny Burtt has held leadership positions in the Asia-Pacific with global multinationals Visa Inc, the digital payments company and consulting firm McKinsey&Company, Stripe and Boeing. Penny led Australia’s leading ce...

From diplomatic service to leading across Asia's most dynamic markets, Penny Burtt joins the Expat Playbook to unpack a career in which she most recently served as President, Southeast Asia at Boeing. In a career spanning the business, government and nonprofit sectors, Penny Burtt has held leadership positions in the Asia-Pacific with global multinationals Visa Inc, the digital payments company and consulting firm McKinsey&Company, Stripe and Boeing. Penny led Australia’s leading ce...

In this episode of the Expat Playbook, we sit down with Ronald Poon, a Hong Kong-born, New Zealand-raised innovation program manager who spent four years living and working across Montreal and Toronto before returning to Melbourne. Ronald shares how a two-week university study tour to Canada about data science and AI sparked a journey that took him from Montreal to Toronto, where he joined a startup consultancy running hackathons and innovation programs for major corporates including McDonal...

In this episode of the Expat Playbook, we sit down with Antonia Robson, one of the first recipients of DFAT's Professional Placements Program under Australia's Invested: Southeast Asia Economic Strategy to 2040. Antonia spent three months embedded with Padang & Co in Singapore, working on innovation programs that connect corporates and startups to accelerate the green economy across Southeast Asia. Her highlight was working on the Sustainability Open Innovation Challenge, delivered...

From an accidental university exchange in Indonesia to closing renewable energy deals across Southeast Asia, Mikaylie Page's story is anything but the typical lawyer pipeline. A Renewables Lawyer at White & Case, Indonesian speaker, and self-described "not a city gal," Mikaylie chose Singapore over London, learned Bahasa Indonesia from scratch in Yogyakarta, and built a career niche at the intersection of Southeast Asia, renewable energy, and cross-cultural work. In this episode, we unpa...

Aidan Hoy chartered a unique path from Perth to Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Canberra and Singapore through saying yes. From an ACICIS exchange in Yogyakarta and election scrutineering in Timor-Leste, these experiences built the groundwork for a career that saw Aidan return to Indonesia through his work in Defence; and later return to Singapore to work on election safety across Asia with a major tech company. What does it take to build a career that spans Australia, Southeast Asia, and the t...