After 18 years in Sydney’s financial industry and a career as a Charles Sturt University lecturer, Kym Treharne has taken up a new role as chief executive at Wagga Business Chamber.
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Nightmarish commutes and a frustration with the metropolitan lifestyle led Ms Treharne to lure her husband back to her hometown to “make their own luck” in 2003.
“We wanted to lead a big life in a small city rather than the reverse,” Ms Treharne said.
“We found a block of land that backed onto the golf course and that lured my husband in.”
Having worked as an economist, marketing and business consultant, Ms Treharne got her MBA at the prestigious Australian School of Management before leaving Sydney, experience she will bring to the table in her new job.
“There’s a great entrepreneurial spirit here and there are so many ways we can develop it further,” Ms Treharne said. “In business you have to wear so many hats… we can support them to do what they do well.”
Ms Treharne is one of a number of metropolitan high-flyers making the tree-change to regional areas like Wagga.
“I was born and bred here, a good product of Wagga,” she said.
Stephen Mudd
Stephen Mudd is a journalist for Fairfax Media west of the great divide. He loves music, dogs and travel.
Stephen Mudd is a journalist for Fairfax Media west of the great divide. He loves music, dogs and travel.
