Enabling women-owned businesses to step into their future

Are you ready to take on the big end of town?

Are you a woman in business dreaming big and ready to do business with corporates?

This is your opportunity to ensure you are ready, learn about their needs, the resources you will need.

The Big Deals in Heels Workshop is on

Thursday 28th April or Tuesday 17th May

It is a workshop like no other drawing from 20 years of corporate buying experience & presented by Lisa Sweeney.

We will prepare you to do business with corporates. This is a day of interaction resulting in you really understanding the needs of corporates and in anticipation, you will develop your pitch for each corporate ready for Day 2. Learn from the panel discussions and other successful entrepreneurs who have existing corporate partnerships. Then you will have plenty of time to refine & develop your pitch for the different corporates in attendance.

Thursday 19th May, WEConnect International will hold its Regional Forum – Corporate Pitching.

This internationally recognized event brings together female entrepreneurs & business owners from all over Australia, representatives of multinational & Australian corporations, to discuss women’s economic empowerment, business growth, and supplier diversity and inclusion.

Learn from the panels

Be connected

Build relationships

And those businesses certified will have the opportunity to pitch to the corporates.

Unique in its kind, this forum will feature panels, networking sessions, an opportunity to pitch your business. The aim is to foster business connections between corporations and women-owned businesses while exchanging key information about market opportunities and business strategies.

If you are a women business enterprise interested in growing your company or if you are a representative of a corporation that seeks to make its value chain more diverse and inclusive, you cannot miss this opportunity to learn and exploit everything that doing business with women-owned companies can offer.

Currently, less than 2% of global supply contracts go to women-owned & led businesses. The corporates in attendance have KPI’s to change this but require certification so they can do business in confidence. So they are keen to meet you.

IMPORTANT In order to pitch you must be a WEConnect certified business, this means 51% must be women-owned & led.

Certification takes at least 7 working days to complete so ticket sales for those requiring certification will close 7th May

All other tickets will close Tuesday 13th May

LEARN MORE ABOUT CERTIFICATION

BIG DEALS IN HEELS WORKSHOP

8.30 am Start Networking & introductions

9.00 am Overview of the day

9.15 am Are you financially ready for doing business with a Corporate

9.45 am Panel Trading terms & Expectations

10.15 am Break

10.30 am What does that mean for You

11.00 am Panel Financing options

11.30 am Break

11.45 am Know your Market, Know your corporate& your Unique Sales Proposition

12.30 pm Lunch

1.00 pm Panel The Corporate perspective.

1.30 pm Activity Develop your proposition

2.00 pm Present this to small groups & get feedback. Refine

2.30 pm Panel Successful Business Owners to discuss what worked for them

3.00 pm Break

3.15 pm Pitching with Impact

3.45 pm Developing your own Pitch deck

4.30 pm Your turn to Pitch

5.30 Close

Thank you so much for a very intense day of learning how to pitch to large corporates. I appreciated the small group size, the fabulous feedback and working through my pitch. I now feel much more confident to move forward with pitch day in a few weeks.

Trudy Rice

I recently participated in a “Big Deals in Heals” workshop run by Business in Heels. The workshop was of the highest standard, in typical Business in Heels style. The individual sessions flowed from one to the next building on our knowledge base of the ways in which to work with and develop long term partnerships with corporates. All presenters were relevant, interesting and engaging and hearing from other successful women and how they work with corporates gave us insights into the process. The individual mentoring sessions were the icing on the cake. Thank you Business in Heels for being such a fabulous connector and for giving women in business these opportunities.

Deborah Fairfull

AUSTRALIAN FORUM

9.oo am Start Keynote

9.30 am Building diverse infrastructure

10.00 am Leveraging Supplier diversity

10.30 am Morning tea

10.50 -12.50 pm Pitch Session ( Certified Businesses)

10.50 – 12.50 pm Open Forum (Non – certified)

WEConnects these corporations globally.

Meet the Entrepreneurs

BRONWYN REID

DIRECTOR 4 T Consultants

LYLY GRECA

CEO Miei Fiori

ALICIA BEACHLEY

CEO April 5 Agency

ENRICA CENTORAME

CEO Global Forwarding

Meet the Corporate Buyers

LISA ATKINSON

TJX Manager of Global Supplier Diversity

AMY CROOKES

EY APAC Environmental Social Governance Services Leader

CANDY BOEY (YIU)

ORGANON Assoc Director Sourcing & Procurement ANZ

DAVE ANDREWS

MICROSOFT Procurement Lead ANZ

AMANDA WORLDON

MSD Sourcing & Procurement

DAVID IMMANUEL SIHOMBING

UNILEVER Procurement Manager ANZ

RITA PERIVOLARYS

ACCENTURE Supplier Inclusion and Sustainability Lead

MICHELE CREEVEY

BOEING Australian Supplier Diversity and Social Procurement Community of Practice

(Joy) Guo Yan SZ Zhou

IBM Supplier Diversity Program Manager

CUILI NG

CARTIER Regional Head of Corporate Communications at Cartier

MICHAEL JILWAN

DIAGEO Market Category Manager – Media, Digital, A&C | APAC Supplier Diversity & Inclusion Lead

CHONTELLE KELLY

DIAGEO APAC Market Category Manager – HR Services

Meet the WEConnect International Team

MRINALINI (MINNIE) VENKATACHALAM

Regional Director, South East Asia and Oceania

CHERYL GRAY

Australian representative

HURRY PLACES TO THE WORKSHOP ARE STRICTLY LIMITED

Only certified businesses are allowed to pitch

You must allow 7 days to be certified

Keen to learn more?

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