“I’ve said before that when you’re only the only woman in the room, you’re all the women in the world.” Peggy O’Neal reflects on a magnificent eight years of leadership at Tigerland.
senior writer Konrad Marshall, the pioneering O’Neal spoke of the platform of financial stability Richmond pledged to establish before their rise up the ladder, as well as the famous 2016 gap analysis and football review that led the club to explore a new leadership model, eschewing “command and control” in favour of personal connection.
“Right away, early in 2017, I started hearing people talk differently, about how ‘It’s great to come back to work’ and ‘I really want to be there’, and I’m sure in 2016 people were going, ‘How soon can I get out of here?’”The entire experience of helping run a footy club in Melbourne has been an eye-opener for O’Neal, who also chats about everything from the importance of relocating the Richmond Cricket Club away from Punt Road Oval to her early education, reading books and learning about the...
“I’d never seen an ocean at that point. But I became very, very curious about the big world outside. Where I grew up, there was a very narrow worldview,” she says. “But at the same time, as with country people — or people who don’t live in big cities all over the world — you learn how to make do, you learn how to be pretty self-sufficient. You learn that there’s a community that helps you achieve things, and that at times, you’re called on to help, and at other times, you need to ask for help.
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