Working with Bitches

by Meredith Fuller

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  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  Thanks to the people who saw something in me and nurtured that. From my childhood: Athol Shmith, Bambi Shmith, John Cato, Irene Mitchell, Tom Liddicoat. From adulthood: my fairy godmother Dr. Morna Sturrock A.M., my mentor Dr. Selby Markham, Anne Calvert, Ray Mooney, Barry Watts, Phil Kerr, my amazing mother, Judith, and my beloved husband, Brian Walsh.

  Thank you to all the contributors for trusting me to share your experiences and for your generosity in revealing how it feels to work with bitches in order to shed some light on and support women at work. Thanks to my colleagues and friends who have contributed: Sarah Marinos, Stephanie Osfield, Sonya Clancy, Jenny Stephens, Dr. Kay Stevens, my niece Jaya Fausch, Kathryn Ledson, Penny Sharples, Geraldine Richards, Ian Ball, Prue Oxford, Ginny Verberne, Anne Pugh, Denise Nelson, Elwin Hall, Sue White, Richard Nelson-Jones, Peter Geyer, Julie Weste, Isabel Davies, Julie Carr, Lou Beasley, Sandy Coghlan, Mike Slusher, Colleen Nordstrom, Carolyn Head, and Elizabeth Markham. I’m also indebted to the many contributors I found through the Women’s Network Australia, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

  Thanks to Andrea McNamara, for her faith, integrity, structure; Chantelle Sturt for her never-ending enthusiastic support; and Isabelle Bleecker, Carolyn Sobczak, and Patricia E. Boyd for their skills and suggestions. And thanks to Jordan Head for photography.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Meredith Fuller has thirty years’ experience as a psychologist, working in private practice and consulting for major organizations. She is a recognized specialist in career development and has worked with senior executives. Fuller’s extensive résumé includes being an author, a playwright, a magazine and newspaper columnist, a talk radio counselor, a TV panelist, a psychological profiler, and a professor. She is a media spokesperson for her professional association, the Australian Psychological Society, providing commentary and interviews on psychological issues, and she writes a regular blog for Psychology Today. Fuller lives in Melbourne, Australia, with her husband, fellow psychologist Brian Walsh.