Description
To celebrate International Women's Day Hub Southern Cross is hosting a discussion to shine a light on women in business, hosted by Shamila Gopolan (CEO and Founder of Herwit).
We invite you to join us as we share lunch, experiences, and stories. There will be 30 minutes of networking after the event. A light lunch is included and everyone is welcome!
This year's theme for International Women's Day is #EachforEqual, as we each have a role to play to help create an equal world.
With this in mind, we bring you “Courageous Conversations”, a panel discussion on the tough questions around taking courageous actions towards equality, diversity, economic impact, and inclusion in the workplace, in boardrooms, in the entrepreneurial community, and more.
Collectively, we can make change and help create an equal world.
Meet your panel:
Shamila Gopalan, Founder & CEO, HerWit [Moderator]
Shamila is an entrepreneur and a corporate leader having been at the helm of building businesses independently and in Fortune 500 firms globally, from CNN to National Geographic Channel through to Fox International and more. In 2016, she was awarded one of Asia Top 50 Female Leaders. She possesses the expertise to navigate the business world as a woman and recognises the power of having more female thought leaders and role models, which is how HerWit was born. She is on a social impact mission to help empower women to become the leaders, visionaries and achievers – role models they are meant to be by amplifying their business and personal brand through purposeful content, translating them into thought-provoking messages that start and shape important conversations to empower women and future generations of girls around the world.
Nina Gbor, Founder & Owner, Eco Styles
As the founder of Eco Styles and also Clothes Swap & Style, Nina Gbor is an award-winning advocate, stylist and public speaker. In addition to ethical fashion, Nina advocates for global female empowerment, social justice and equality. She coined the phrase ‘get off the fashion trendmill’ which means individuality and mindful consumerism should be the premise for consuming clothing, not fashion trends. Nina has a master’s degree in International Development and teaches sustainable fashion short courses at RMIT University. She hosts slow fashion clothes swaps & restyling workshops as a new system for reducing fashion waste to help minimise its impact on climate change. Nina was awarded Champion of the Year 2018 in the Canberra Women in Business Awards for social impact in sustainability.
Ariane Barker, CEO, Scale Investors
Ariane is the CEO of Scale Investors. Prior to leading Scale Investors, she has 20 years’ experience working in blue-chip financial services companies in senior executive management roles, including JBWere at National Australia Bank in Melbourne, prior to that in capital market roles with HSBC, Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch, in Hong Kong, Tokyo, New York and London. With a background in
international investment banking across a range of asset classes, particularly alternatives, Ariane brings a diversity of insight and perspectives to strategic decision-making. Ariane was awarded an AICD board diversity scholarship in 2011 and has a keen interest in Education, Healthcare and the Arts, thus her roles with
NFPs including The Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI), The Royal Eye and Ear Hospital (RVEEH) and the National Gallery of Victoria Women's Association (NGVWA).
Jean Darling, Founder & Director, Commune + Co and Cirque Du Soil
Jean is a Regenerative designer of the built environment and unapologetically driven by issues of climate emergency and community resilience, closed-loop food systems and collective strategies for social and environmental change. She has a transdisciplinary background in Architecture, Placemaking and Social enterprise and has a strategic whole systems approach to people and spaces. She sees the city as a "living laboratory" and loves creating deliberative and real human empowerment and connection through the design of urban interventions. She believes that regenerating the land we build on is one of the ways forward to solving our climate crisis, and has recently launched a precinct-focused food waste recovery start-up called Cirque du Soil, a hyperlocal alternative to our current waste management system. Jean is also Founder of Commune + Co, Co-founder of YIMBY (Yes in my Backyard) VIC, and an advocate for Better Development Outcomes.
Erika Johnsson, Head of Communication, SixPark
Erika Jonsson is head of communication at Six Park, a leading online investment management service. She is an accomplished storyteller who has worked as a writer and editor for more than 15 years. She studied journalism at RMIT and has worked in rural and suburban newsrooms as well as for the Victorian Government as a ministerial policy adviser. Erika loves travelling and running, and is an avid reader.
Rosie Mcalister, Talent Broker, S2M Digital
Rosie comes from an extensive facility management background, during her role as an operations coordinator she managed over 150 staff, in this role she looked after the hiring and resourcing of talent across the aquatics industry for a wide range of roles. She quickly realised her passion for connecting people with their dream job. Rosie followed that passion to S2M where she specialises in the Design and Development space. She is personally passionate about seeing more women in the technology space and she promotes diversity in the hiring process.
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