Dr Cathryn Lloyd, Founder & Director Maverick Minds has just released her second book Seriously Playful Creativity: An A to Z of Creative Action and Reflection. Following on from her first book, The Story Cookbook: Practical Recipes for Change, which was a collaboration with Andrew Rixon, Seriously Playful Creativity is...
Kate Pearce, Director, Personified
Kate Pearce, Director Personified applies her background in business improvement and operations, allied with her coaching qualifications to drive effective communication across large scale projects to ensure that performance targets are met. As a project performance specialist, Kate focuses on identifying and resolving relationship and communication challenges before they start...
Gillian Corban & Amanda Blair, Owners, Corban & Blair
Gillian Corban and Amanda Blair, cousins and Co-Owners of Corban & Blair are continuous innovators, who have ridden the stormy waves of business together for thirty three years. With a keen eye for future trends, allied with a focus on sustainability and local production, the unique Australian products they create...
Supporting Women Owned Business: Lisa Carter, Clear Insurance
Femeconomy’s Supporting Women Owned Business mini-blog series is intended to amplify how women led and women owned businesses are supporting each other, and to encourage more businesses to include women led and women owned businesses in their purchasing decisions. Clear Insurance demystifies insurance and helps our clients to sensibly manage their...
How Women Owned Businesses Impact Women’s Economic Security
The number of Australian women operating their own businesses has steadily increased over the past 20 years. Internationally, Australia’s experience is similar to that of the United Kingdom, where in recent years the number of women in self-employment has been increasing at a faster rate than the number of men....
Binuo Erth, Founder & Managing Director, Vellum Group
Binuo Erth Managing Director of Vellum Group has recently expanded from Hong Kong to Australia to launch a new asset class for investors, a Build to Rent Fund (BTRF). Build to rent is focussed on property development and construction that is purely intended as large scale residential property, in which...
Advice from Men: How to be an Effective Male Ally
This article was originally published by Advancing Women, and authored by Michelle Redfern. WHAT DO MEN THINK? The term male ally has grown in popularity. Given how ubiquitous the term now is, it got me thinking, what does it really take to be a male ally – but from the perspective...
Supporting Women Owned Business: Kristal Kinsela, IPS Management Consultants
Femeconomy’s Supporting Women Owned Business mini-blog series is intended to amplify how women led and women owned businesses are supporting each other, and to encourage more businesses to include women led and women owned businesses in their purchasing decisions. IPS is a majority Indigenous-owned organisation providing innovative and focused consulting services...
Supporting Women Owned Business: Sheena Ireland, Specialists in Communications
Femeconomy’s Supporting Women Owned Business mini-blog series is intended to amplify how women led and women owned businesses are supporting each other, and to encourage more businesses to include women led and women owned businesses in their purchasing decisions. Specialists in Communications is the trusted adviser and reliable communications team for businesses...
Creating Gender Equality through Trading Opportunities – Laos, Vietnam and Australia
Procurement and trade are huge economic levers that also drive social change. Femeconomy have partnered with members Social Good Outpost’s Director Elise Stephenson and Temples and Markets Owner Judith Treanor to develop trade links between women owned businesses across Australia, Laos and Vietnam, through the “Creating Gender Equality Through Trading...
Femeconomy Retail Gender Equality Progress Report 2021
We recently updated our brand directory, with 37 brands joining the approved ranks, and 37 brands no longer approved. It’s an informative process of reviewing each record against our criteria, re-researching each brand’s leadership composition, and amending our website directory to reflect any changes. Over 860 brands meet our criteria. When...
Stacey Head, Managing Director and Founder, she wear
Stacey Head Managing Director and Founder of she wear is a continuous innovator. Her award winning business continues to expand, with export growth and the launch of a new range of work sneakers developed to cater to the needs of front line health care staff, nurses, and hospitality workers who...