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KAMILA WOLYNIEC
Building a Killer Personal Brand
Women often get overlooked for opportunities and not given the credit they deserve, because they lack a credible personal brand and visibility amongst the key people in the organisation. Research shows that women are also more reluctant to self-promote and leverage their relationships, and the notion of personal brand is foreign to many female leaders. We all have a brand and it is our responsibility to actively build and promote it! In this workshop, you will learn how to do exactly that.
Five Takeaways:
– Key components of personal brand and your value proposition
– Why congruence and authenticity are key to your brand success
– 4Cs formula to a killer personal brand that will transform your reputation
– Why professional success and marketing have a lot in common
– How to promote your brand with an equal measure of grit and grace
Kamila is a Career Success Coach, empowering women with tools to authentically back themselves, fast-track to success and thrive in their career.
Kamila brings over a decade of HR experience working with leaders across a range of industries, including finance, technology, education, and healthcare. During talent reviews and succession planning meetings in male-dominated organisations, Kamila frequently witnessed women being overlooked and undermined due to lack of visibility and presence.
Recognising the importance of taking ownership of our career success, Kamila set out on a mission to empower women to break through barriers to self-promotion and self-advocacy.
As an accredited Meta Dynamics™ Coach, psychometric profiler and a trained #IamRemarkable facilitator, Kamila has at her disposal a range of tools that help her clients transform their career outcomes and thrive.
Building High-Performing Teams with the Right Culture
Inspiring, encouraging and managing people is often the biggest challenge we face in business. Being able to harness a team is what differentiates poor managers from great ones. “In this highly practical workshop, learn about the real challenges leaders face in creating high performing teams and how you can build a highly functioning team in today’s dynamic business landscape.
Tina Daisley is a self-proclaimed warrior for positive leadership! She is passionate about working with individuals and businesses to not only get through change but to genuinely transform while building organisational and individual resilience. She works with businesses and individuals like you to emerge from change with super-charged courage, confidence and capability.
How does she do that? There’s no magic wand, no silver bullet. Through determined listening to understand and by leveraging her own experience, she provides support where it is needed, driven by the firm belief that we are all capable of positive transformation. It is all possible; long-term sustained leadership capability development, long-term sustainable transformation for improved business outcomes, engagement and culture.
KISTIN GUNNIS
Valuing Your Worth
LEESA TONGOULIDIS
Reimagining Personal Career Success in a Climate of Uncertainty and Continual Change
Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity (VUCA) is here to stay. No matter what industry or sector you work in, we all need to show up differently, learn new skills and continually adapt. But how?
Takeaways
- Tapping into your Authentic Voice
- Letting go of “Othering”
- Reframing Mindsets and Attitudes
- Negotiating your Worth
Using the lens of an artist, Leesa and her team help individuals, leaders and organisations develop the skills, support and confidence needed to thrive in times of uncertainty.
Leesa has worked with hundreds of individuals from school leavers to CEO’s to help them reimagine their career, and improve their leadership skills. She has also led a diverse range of successful organisational change programs. With over 30 years in the field, she has become deeply attuned to the wide range of interplay between human experience, commercial and cultural realities that are critical to success. Her curiosity and love of learning has helped her to develop cutting edge solutions that leverage the latest in design thinking, neuroscience, heart based leadership. Leesa’s corporate career spans multiple sectors, including many top 20 ASX and multi-nationals across IT, Financial Services, Utilities, Government, Consulting, Managed Services, Recruitment, Education, Health and Telecommunications.
Leesa is a positive agent of change and is actively involved in shaping the future of work through public speaking events, volunteering and mentoring.
LINLEY WATSON
Exhausted to Energised: 5 Secrets to Sustaining your Energy, Performance & Success
Are you successful in your career but so consumed by work that you have little time or energy for anyone or anything else, let alone yourself? Juggling endless work and personal commitments can leave you feeling physically unhealthy, mentally exhausted, emotionally depleted and socially disconnected.
Take the next step in attaining a sense of calm, balance and focus as you reshape your life to align with your priorities.
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- Learn why self-first is not selfish
- Align your goals with your intentions to emphasise who you want to be as much as what you want to achieve
- Revisit what’s most important to you and let your values not your job dictate how you spend your time and energy
- Practice some easy wellbeing techniques to help you relax and replenish your energy, so you are better equipped to deal with everyday stress and overwhelm
- Share ideas to help keep your whole life not just your work life on track
Linley Watson is owner and CEO of Peak Performance International and founder of REIDARTM. Over the past two decades, Linley and her team has assessed, trained, mentored, coached or advised over ten thousand leaders in a wide range of industry sectors including finance, telecommunications and professional services.
Linley has seen firsthand how the relentless demands of professional life can negatively impact people’s health and wellbeing, their relationships and their performance. That’s why she created REIDARTM Holistic Executive Coaching, to help leaders achieve success in all areas of their life.
Business leader, wife, mother of four (including triplets), walking enthusiast, aspiring yogi and Reiki practitioner are some of the roles and experiences that Linley brings to REIDARTM.
Alongside her professional qualifications that include a Bachelor of Commerce, ICF accredited Diploma in Leadership, Coaching and Mentoring, certificates in Neuro Coaching, Emotional Intelligence, Reiki Science and more, Linley has invested thousands of hours in her own personal development. Balancing her career ambitions, hectic home life and personal wellbeing has always been core to who she is.
Now Linley and her team of holistic coaches are combining their passion for coaching and energy healing to empower professionals to live a more balanced, healthy and happy life.
CHANDELL LABBOZZETTA
Leading with Influence & Integrity – 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.
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.
CLAIRE BRAUND
Factoring Boards & Committees Into Your Career
Are boards and committees open to younger women, entrepreneurs, small business owners or those with little board experience? The answer is yes, but as in business, its finding your niche and understanding how you can match and market your skills and experience to the right board or committee. You will come away with an action plan that you can develop at your own pace. As a special offer, Women on Boards is also giving a $50 discount on membership to anyone who attends the workshop.
In this 75 minutes presentation by Claire Braund, co-founder of Women on Boards in both Australia and the UK, you will learn:
- Why you might consider boards & committees.
- When is the right time to start.
- How to assess your boardroom potential.
- What boards are looking for in candidates.
- Where to focus your efforts in seeking a board / committee role.
Claire is a former journalist and public relations manager who used her high level advocacy skills to co-found Women on Boards in Australia. She is a highly respected speaker on gender balance and related business issues, Claire an informed and entertaining presenter, a renowned networker and skilled at building relationships for common benefit. She became a Churchill Fellow in 2011 for her research into the effect of gender quotas on public listed company boards in Norway, the UK and France which led to the establishment of Women on Boards in the UK in 2012. Claire is a director of the Central Coast Conservatorium (of Music), a past director of the Foundation for Australian Agricultural Women and The Women’s Club and a graduate of the Benevolent Society’s Sydney Social Leadership Program.
CORIEN VERMAAK
Being Cyber Safe – A Personal & Parent’s Guide.
Today we are overwhelmed with news about breaches and the risks to both us and our children. Often being proactive seems impossible with the need to outpace the bad guys. Corien Veermak, an experienced online safety advocate, offers valuable insights into the potential pitfalls that young family members may encounter while navigating the digital world. She will share stories from her forensic background.
Take aways:
- An understanding of the risks associated with the internet,
- Proactive tips on how to educate your children
- How to create a culture of security for you & your family
- Risks & Best practices for online security both at home & work
Corien Vermaak started her career as a technology law specialist within the telecommunication space and soon fell in love with data privacy and the legal structures governing cybercrime. In her career, Corien specialised in Cybercrime legislation and Data privacy while representing large multinational on these matters.
She holds a master’s degree in law specialising in cybercrime and data privacy. She has been involved in the writing of legislation in this regard as well as consulting to Africa Union and Interpol on issues relating to cybercrimes and privacy.
Corien is a Qualified Digital Forensic Auditor, Lead ISO 27001 auditor and C|CISO. Corien has been a CISO Advisor for the Cisco Security center of excellence in the Asia Pacific, Japan and China region where she has led market leadership projects.
She has used her lab and investigative experience to instruct and develop training focused on educating children on the dangers in the digital world. She has been running a pro-bono campaign educating over 52,000 children on cyberbullying and digital privacy. In 2022, Corien released her book Hacker Mom – the practical guide to keeping your kids safe online.
Corien is one of the global heads of Cisco Woman in Cyber Security and has been both an executive and non-executive board member for Woman in ICT.
She is currently Cisco’s director of cybersecurity for Australia & New Zealand.