 It's about tapping into what they know, not changing the way that our people do business, but actually learning from them. How do they do business and how can we work together? I'm Dr Kerry Bodle. I'm a Waka Waka woman from Sherbourg. I studied accounting at Griffith University and I'm currently a senior lecturer in the Accounting Finance and Economics department. When I first started here, I felt like I was a duck out of water. I can remember saying to myself, I'm a mature age student. If I ever became a teacher, I know how I would teach differently. My favourite thing about my job is the First Peoples, doing research, teaching and obviously interacting with our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander business communities. It's just been a journey for me to try and fill in that gap of where do I come from? Who am I? Where do I belong? I get emotional when I talk about the journey that my grandmother and my mother had to go through. I just wanted to make sure that, you know, they didn't do it for nothing. Embracing the First Peoples has given me a new lease of life in my academic career. The legacy I want to leave is that I want to be a disruptor to the traditional way of teaching, especially in accounting and in business, starting to disrupt the way that we develop our courses, curriculum development, the way that we interact with the Aboriginal communities in our research and also in community engagement. The students that I've learnt that I closely connect to are from different cultures. If I can show them my vulnerability, then they can feel that they can express their own vulnerability. Now, unless we're brave enough and put ourselves out there, we won't see change.