Prosple Profiles

It could have been challenging to juggle my family and work life if Hydro Tasmania didn’t value diversity and flexibility.

The whole course has been a journey to ask many questions to myself.

Emma Birch studied Bachelor of Civil Engineering and Bachelor of Science – Geology & Geophysics at the University of Sydney and is now the Head of Asset Management Program Management Office at Hydro Tasmania.

I undertook a Diploma of Project Management while working full time, and finished it off while on maternity leave.

Failure isn’t failure if you learn something from it – then it becomes a stepping stone. People don't like to talk about bad times so it's hard to know, but more ‘successful people’ than you may realise bombed at something else before they started succeeding.

The more generalised Masters of Business Administration gave me the most options in my career path.