Nikki Beaumont, CEO & Founder Beaumont People has dedicated her 30 year career to helping people find their next career step. With the tagline, Placing People First, Nikki has embedded this philosophy within her business. Her response to the Global Financial Crisis downturn was to introduce a low cost recruitment...
Nadine Bates, Creative Director and Kristen Souvlis, Managing Director are co-founders of award winning production company Like a Photon Creative. Like a Photon Creative produces animated children’s content with a focus on diversity and gender parity both onscreen and behind screen, but mostly they create joy. Founded in 2012, Like...
So, you’ve been in your current role for about two years. You’re starting to consider if there is a future in the business for you. You have an awesome boss who has worked with you to ensure you have a clear pathway for your future mapped out, with identified milestones...
Florence Drummond, Co-Founder of Indigenous Women in Mining & Resources Australia (IWIMRA), is on a mission to connect every Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander woman working in the mining and resources industry across Australia, to support each other in their career journey. From her home base in Weipa, Florence and...
Elise Stevens founded her business Age Defying Careers to help women over 40 learn new skills and embrace change and transformation to reach their career goals. Elise’s own successful career in project management led her to begin Podcasting, seeking out, connecting with and sharing the career stories of other women...
Catherine Fox, Director of Diversity at Women & Leadership Australia (WLA), author, columnist and broadcaster, has spent more than 20 years finding out how we can get more women into the workplace. She is speaking at WLA’s forthcoming Australian Women’s Leadership Symposiums, delivering a fascinating session entitled Women Kind: Unlocking...
Lyndell Fogarty CEO performHR started her business 10 years ago, with a vision of providing a HR service model that allowed business leaders to focus on leading, growing and protecting their organisations. Ten years on and performHR is leading the way in how professional HR delivery can be – pragmatic, agile and...
Louise Bezzina created and launched the first incredibly successful Bleach* The Gold Coast Festival in just 6 months. As CEO and Artistic Director of Bleach*, Louise has since 2011 established the Festival’s reputation as a leading Queensland Arts organisation. Last year, this lead to Bleach* featuring as part of the...
Queensland is built by amazing Queenslanders. Every day women are moving Queensland forward. We want to make sure their voices are heard, and their faces known. History is stacked with invisible women. The 2016 Women in Media report stated that women are 21% of quoted media sources and this drops...
Pinky McKay is Australia’s most recognised breastfeeding expert (you’ve probably seen her on the telly), best-selling author of four books on parenting, breastfeeding and baby sleep, as well as being an entrepreneur and the creator of Boobie Bikkies lactation cookies. Boobie Bikkies were created in 2012, and now export internationally....
Many women don’t feel successful I have long been disturbed by the number of accomplished, intelligent women I have met who feel overwhelmed and conflicted, rather than proud of, their successes. Success, particularly feeling successful, has become a challenging concept for women living in western democracies such as Australia. This...
In 2016 Michelle Redfern made the risky leap from corporate executive to entrepreneur, founding Advancing Women with the mission to improve gender diversity in the business and sporting arenas. She has carefully curated a diverse portfolio career, which includes: Founder of Women Who Get It (WWGI), a professional women’s networking...
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