Founder of Women in CX, Clare is a a globally recognised leading CX practitioner, transforming businesses through human-centred design.

Passionate about amplifying the voices of women in the CX and tech industry, she founded the world's first online membership community for women in customer experience. Today it unites thousands of women, sponsors, and supporters in the pursuit of diversity, equity, and inclusion to revolutionize the future of CX.

Women in CX

Lavinia is an award-winning Blockchain business and Web3 thought leader and consultant with a focus on #DEI and female leadership.

The founder of Women in Blockchain Talks, the global networking and education blockchain platform that shines a spotlight on dynamic women in the Blockchain ecosystem.

Known to bring a fresh and accessible approach to complex subjects, Lavinia has a deep desire to uplift individuals, especially women, financially, professionally, and personally.

WiBT

Severine talks about authentic leadership, and her story to becoming a Chief Financial Officer.

A life changing conversation with a mentor inspired Severine to head to the top, and the steps she took across the worlds biggest FMCG businesses such as Coca-Cola and Unilever uncovered her ability for it, an authentic style that encourages others to be themselves at work too.

Dalal Mansour is a professional makeup artist with decades of industry experience. Creating looks for Fashion Weeks around the world and for the US TV show Dance wWith Me, Dalal talks about the plan she built to go in alone after a two decades working with MAC.

Her sparkling personality, mission to make people feel good about themselves has helped build a solid business & reputation across the Beauty industry.

Beauty by Dalal

Laura Shimili is a portrait photographer who specialises in professional images for founders and business leaders. She founded the campaign 40 over 40 where she photographs people over 40 & want to celebrate the milestones, achievements and challenges that have got them to where they are today.

Laura Shimili Photography

An Advertising Executive who worked around the world, Yvette’s life took a different direction when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. It prompted her to think about her legacy.

Becoming a business coach, Yvette has not only transformed her own life, but many others who have worked with her. Specialising in Human Design, her new skills along with prior experience helps her clients succeed.

Yvette Business Coaching

Founder of Bondi Beach Babes, Amy Lynch took matters into her own hands when she experienced loneliness during the pandemic. She was not alone, and by inviting people to a brunch, Amy soon realised the need to bring people together. Fast forward 3 years and the community has helped to forge hundreds of friendships and events which keep people active and having fun.

Bondi Beach Babes

Business Executive Silvia is one of the Young Leaders from the World Economic Forum. Spreading the word about positive leadership, she talks about the connection between her teams wellbeing and the wellbeing of the business.

Passionate about making the future an equitable place, Silvia is working to influence all involved in the building of the metaverse and ensuring its representative of all.

Silvia Wiesner

Tammy Maggs had to dig deep when a workplace injury meant her career would have to take a new direction. Through meditation and a determined attitude, she overcame this set back and discovered the Web3 community. Tammy is now a well respected digital artist and community builder in the emerging tech world. A fresh start indeed.

Tammy Maggs

Anna was voted one of the Top 50 CTO’s when in role at Telstra. After agreeing to co-author a book to help Boards protect their organisations from cyber crime, she decided to leave her corporate career to set up a consultancy helping businesses do just that, The Secure Board.

Having learnt to code at 8, Anna is a native 'Womean in Tech', but dispels the myth that learning to code is the only way into it.

Anna Leibel

Katy is a health and wellness guru, giving up alcohol in her 40’s and going on to train in breath work, she manages to attain a life of simplicity whilst also working in her role in tech sales.

The founder of Yoga Pod Sydney, she is especially focused on helping mums get time back for themselves, herself a busy Mum and step Mum.

The Yogapod Sydney

Gender Diversity and equality in STEM is what motivates Dr Beekhuyzens work. Through the Tech Girls Movement, she has educated and engaged hundreds if not thousands of girls to pursue a career in technology. Innovative in her approach, she authored a book called Tech Girls are Superheroes. Her mission never stops - but with great success - even flying out some of her students to Silicon Valley to showcase their work.

Tech Girls Movement

Lisa has forged her own career path & is now driving social impact in the regional and rural area’s she knows well. Feeling cut off from where the action happened - in city areas - Lisa built her own consultancy and soon built a formidable reputation in ESG. As Board Chair of a Government backed organisation, she made headway for women everywhere, not least those from rural areas.

Caffery Group

Sarah is an outstanding example of what you can achieve at 40. Completing a law degree was just one of the highlights. She also got married and had successful IVF treatment. Proud Mum to Toby, and to teenager Honey, Sarah is keen to ensure younger women know it is never too late to go after what matters to you.

Chelsea founded the Circular Economy Pioneers as she saw the potential in younger people helping us live better and save the planet. Sharing the principles of System’s Thinking, she encourages organisations and individuals to think differently when building a product or service, and to look to nature where this is no waste for solutions.

Circular Economy Pioneers

The Change and Future of Work consultant helps organisations thrive and individuals to adapt in changing work environments. She believes work will continue to evolve, and that trialling is the best way to understand what models can work best for employee and employer. Efficiency is one of the reasons she thinks Agile and Lean ways of working are the way forward.

Mariebelle Malo

Jocelyne is a CMO with an eye on the future. Having worked on luxury brands, she made the decision to move into emerging technology and was soon in FinTech and Blockchain based businesses. Using her skills in brand building and strategy, she likes to challenge herself and add benefit to a new industry. leading teams with humility underpins her approach.

Jocelyne Royer

The founder and CEO of River Media Group, Nicki credits the 29 years in business to her amazing team. This team, along with her drive to do good, helped form the first DE&I influencer talent agency in the UK, Reflect. The vision is a much more representative media, both made and featuring people from all backgrounds and abilities.

The River Group

Sherika has taken bet after bet on herself. This saw her take on a role in the White House, modernising and digitising their operations. Here she was exposed to the structures in place in powerful tech organisations such as Google. Motivated by the urgent need to drive diversity and inclusion in these business, she went to Silicon Valley to drive change implementing game changing DE&I policies.

Driven by impact, she agitates for change and talks about the behaviour needed to make such change occur.

Sherika Ekpo

It was her personal experience of identity theft that gave Cos the push to move her career into Cyber Security.

As an EA for 20 years, this meant re-skilling to get the desired qualifications. However, she shares the invaluable skills she learnt in her time as an EA that she relies upon in her Cyber career.

By 40 we’ve walked through some fires. Suzy is evidence of the termination we have within us when the going gets tough. A pandemic and marriage breakdown, all whilst in a new city, meant a trying time for Suzy. But through conscious effort, she found the things that would help her get through.

Inspiring us to pick up old skills and challenge ourselves learning new ones, Suzy rekindled her love of music. And also began running - setting her sights on running a marathon. Which she did (crossing the finish line with a big smile on her face)

Nicole is a fantastic example of how a career path can evolve as you follow your curiousity. Starting out as an Accountant at Coca-Cola, her ability to find solutions to team problems led her into sales and later, e-commerce.

The sectors she has worked in since demonstrates the adaptability we often have inside us should we dare to try. Her experience of cloud acceleration in the Australian mining industry & turning street art into NFT’s on the Blockchain is also a lesson in how to learn something new and go all in.

It was from personal experience that Jeannie-Marie began her tech start-up, Brenna. Her mother being in aged care opened her eyes to the need for a communication solution between the registered nurses, and the families of the patients.

Jeannie-Marie is now a key player in the AgeTech space. She talks about building her product and the skills she called upon to make it happen.

Brenna

Helen made the decision to move into the digital arm of the business she worked in a few years before COVID hit. It was a steep learning curve, but with 25 years of buying experience she knew she could add value.

The new role meant becoming digitally literate, and Helen talks of the importance of asking questions & checking your understanding as you go.

Her winning formula has helped establish and embed new teams - grasping both business operations and new technology.

In this episode we discussed communities that offer guidance and support to those who suspect they are victims of financial abuse.

Sharing a personal story of a toxic relationship and how many relationships of this sort can impact finances, the conversation covered financial abuse and how to gain agency over their finances, she shares tips on how to best achieve financial freedom.

PR professional Jules Brooke is the founder of the She’s the Boss. Bringing together hundreds of female leaders during the pandemic formed the basis of a supportive network that now meet in real life as well as online frequently, along with the inspiring stories shared on the podcast.

Jules is determined to make women in business more visible and her background in PR and hosting a TV show means she can expertly guide clients to speak up for themselves.

She's The Boss

Nikki Price is a publicist with an inspiring story. On approaching her 40th birthday she decided to address the low self-esteem she had suffered from for years. The transformation led her to her finding her authentic self, and soon she found herself ready to start her own business - Priceless Media.

Nikki shares how her love of film and of writing took her to Hollywood, and that as her self-belief grew, so did her confidence to further build on what she was good at. Now not only thriving in her career, she is energised by a love of her new hobbies, boxing and pole dancing.

Priceless Media

With a career spanning 25 years in TV and digital, Danika is now thriving in her role as the Chief Commercial Officer of WeAre8 - an opportunity that means she can do good, and change the way social media is done.

Interviewed at 46, Danika talks of the importance of her 4.45am exercise routine and her love of the sharpness she feels at this stage in life.

A mum of 3 boys, she wants to make the world a better place for younger generations.

WeAre8

Peace believes that investing in women is the most powerful way to change the world. By bringing women together through the Women's Business School she has helped thousands of women to achieve their dream of running successful and profitable businesses.

Peace founded AusMumpreneur with sister Katy Garner in 2009 and since then, the duo have made huge impact to assist in women’s success.

The author and TedX speaker talks about the important of wellbeing and knowing your ‘why’.

Women's Business School

Sharon turned 40 during lockdown, meaning a more subdued celebration. However, this period of her life was a time of great excitement and change as she applied her background in health and innovation to the somewhat marginalised area of FemTech.

A mother of 4, Sharon was recently approached to join a HealthTech start up. Now the CEO of Shela, her vision is becoming reality as she leads a team building an innovative new FemTech product to help women in key areas of health.

Shela

Natasha was working in fashion when she began a course in psychology. It was the implicit attitudes around ageing that particularly sparked her interest. Fast forward several years, and Natasha is a Research Fellow at the Futures Ageing Institute at the University of New South Wales.

Working with contributors across the world, Natasha shares research on the self perceptions of ageing & how we can make society more inclusive. This has seen her share research also on SBS.

Mobilising Wisdom Blog

Speaking in Sustainability Week, Shanya talks about the path that brought her to launching re-commerce platform RNTR.

Hustle & hard work is at the core of Shanya’s work ethic, as is her drive to change the impact of fashion on the planet.

RNTR

As a Sustainability professional Charmaine is fulfilling her purpose, and enjoys the ‘scale of impact’ she can have working In corporate business.

She gives guidance on how to succeed in a similar role - and the development she has undertaken personally.

Priya has nineteen years of experience in the technology and has enjoyed a successful career in Project, Program and Portfolio management.

Her sense of purpose drove her to explore how she could make gifts that were sustainable - both for the environment and in uplifting those that made them. The handloom fabric used to create the products is made using recycled yarn, developed by upcycling textile landfill waste - and the weavers that make them are in turn are able to enjoy safe careers whilst being paid fairly.

Punar Sustainable Gifting

With a career including global headquarter roles at Nike and Levi’s, Rosanna returned to Australia eager to make a difference using her experience in brand and business.

After sitting on a number of Not-For-Profit Boards, she decided to set up Growth Activists, a strategy and engagement consultancy that activates courageous organisations for a sustainable future.

Growth Activists

Jerry’s corporate career spanned the likes of UK retailer Sainsbury’s and Barclays Bank. But there was an entrepreneur inside. Having her first child opened her eyes to the scale of waste that was generated frequently buying new shoes for children that didn’t last.

She set out to understand how she could make children’s shoes better for the environment. Now the founder of Pip and Henry, Jeroo has a collection of beautiful children’s shoes, and is pioneering new methods in the manufacture of children’s footwear.

Pip and Henry

Casey’s personal story of transformation began when she was a fitness trainer and influencer and trainer in Bondi. After her Mum became unwell, she embarked on a journey focused on health and change.

Casey talks about he work she did on herself and her lifestyle change - a move to Byron Bay - whilst sharing the work she does supporting women in finding inner peace and living in line with their cycle.

Casey Maynard

Applying to be an astronaut twice, Lucy is an inventor with a sense of fun. Whilst studying to be an astronaut (she came close, whilst also creating a worldwide community of female astronaut applicants) - she authored a book ‘It’s only Rocket Science’ which covers how to get a rocket into space.

Lucy shares the many projects she has worked on, from robotics to her involvement in the development of AI. Having taught herself to become a great communicator, she is now sharing this skill more broadly, whilst testing life out as a Nomad.

Lucy Rogers

Face your fears! Linda Goodwin helps people overcome fears of the ocean at any age. The graphic designer moved to full time swim instructor during the pandemic and has become a popular and trusted teacher ever since.

Whether 5 or 50, Linda teaches people techniques that will help them stay calm in the water. She can attest to this herself with her training deep sea diving.

Good Swim

Káti is an inspiring leader and visionary. The CEO of the Fathering Project has had a career dedicated to driving change and making social impact. Now she is pushing for society to evolve and support Dad’s who want to be the hands on Dad’s they want to be. Her interview is a great call to action - and a reminder of how many of us may need to update our thinking, at home and work.

Káti on LinkedIn