Michelle has been with Amazon Web Services for over 7 years. In her current role as Head of Professional Services for Australia and New Zealand (ANZ), Michelle leads the ANZ team of experts who help customers achieve their desired business outcomes when using the AWS Cloud, providing specialist consulting expertise, prescriptive guidance and offerings to help customers achieve business outcomes.

Michelle has worked extensively in Australia and New Zealand, as well as holding Asia Pacific and global roles. Prior to AWS, she enjoyed a 23 year career in management consulting at Accenture, working with large enterprises on SAP transformation programs, project and program management; quality and risk roles; and sales effectiveness and enablement.

Michelle is passionate about inclusion and diversity, and is the Executive Sponsor for our Women at Amazon ANZ affinity group, which is focused on a range of activities across ‘attract and hire’ – including inspiring and educating our ‘next gen’ female technologists; ‘retain and develop’ – training and development, health and wellbeing plus opportunities to help influence job flexibility, work-life balance, and career paths for a diverse workforce; and marketing and community development initiatives.

Since the beginning of time women have been socialised and conditioned to “wait to be asked”. We are taught to be patient, to wait for be asked out, to wait to be asked for your hand in marriage and to wait for your promotion.

Whilst we are waiting, less qualified but confident people are moving ahead of us whilst we feel unheard, unrecognised, and exhausted.

In this session Christine will share:
• What are the fears making us wait and stopping us from asking?
• Tools and language to help you to ask for what you without shame or guilt.
• Understanding the cost and consequences of not asking for yourself and those around you.

Chandell is a best-selling author, Master Trainer of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), Sales Strategist, and Confidence Booster. Her personal sales close rate is over 100% thanks to satisfied client’s persuasive referrals and her clients experience measurable increases in their own sales success almost overnight as a result of her empowering approach. “Success comes from the inside, so I start with mindset,” says Chandell. “If you don’t fix your mindset, it doesn’t matter what techniques you use you’ll still be stuck on the sales rollercoaster.” Confidence leads to empowered decisions, wise choices, and profitable transactions which help you create the life you want and deserve even in times of uncertainty and tumult.

 How to have conversations that inspire action.

In this new era where the many are fighting to ‘win the war on talent’ you will learn how to create an environment that paints brightness of future for your team and attract quality candidates. Our Leaders are Confident to Communicate their Messages, Collaborate and Lead their Internal and External Stakeholders with Influence and Integrity.

In this workshop, Chandell will cover:

• How to Create Confidence in your Communication abilities to deliver with authenticity & integrity.
• Learn a simple methodology for solving problems and get results with Self/Others.
• Reduce the Complexity of Emotional Conversations while Harnessing Human Connection in Leadership and Eliminate ‘Confused’ Messaging in top down, bottom up reporting structures.

Conventional emphasis on predefined job titles leads to exclusion of talented diverse individuals whose capabilities and competencies are not taken into consideration. It’s a narrow approach affecting ability to assemble teams that are truly diverse.  

The INDEX way builds teams using our unique framework that is underpinned by SFIA to deliver capabilities, and help organisations build thriving modern workplaces. 

Takeaways:-  

Why Skills first is the key to unlocking diversity.  

 INDEX case study ( approach, index way ) 

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 Impact

Michele Levine was born with a passion for people and what makes them tick, social justice and an insatiable curiosity about life.
With over 30 years’ experience as a researcher, Michele has been responsible for thousands of surveys, including many of the largest research projects ever undertaken in Australia, many of which continue to play a critically important part in shaping our society today.
With a fundamental belief in the empowering value of information, Michele was instrumental in the development and refinement of Roy Morgan Single Source, the world’s leading consumer study (based on over 50,000 interviews a year) and, in 2010, the introduction of the Roy Morgan Business Survey.
Michele was ahead of her time in foreseeing the exponential growth of Big Data and, consequently the need for software (like ASTEROID) which can manage and order massive volumes of data – as well as the need for highly trained analysts who can help make sense
of it.

Roy Morgan CEO Michele Levine is a highly sought-after expert on market trends and factors that impact industries.

As well as providing an update on the current industry trends we are facing, Michele will provide insights into how she made her way to the top job as CEO of Australia’s largest independent market researcher and why this path is available to any woman who is prepared to challenge herself.