Meet the Winners Breakfast: Accelerating Gender Equity
📍 Geelong Heritage Library
📅 Wednesday 23rd July 2025 | 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Join us for a powerful morning of learning, connection, and action!
At the Meet the Winners Breakfast, we shine a light on what’s working right now to move the needle on gender equity. Hear directly from the inspirational winners of the 2022 and 2023 Gender Equity Awards as they share their stories, strategies, and the innovative policies that are making a real difference.
✅ Learn the behaviours and activities that accelerate gender equity
✅ Discover what’s motivating change inside leading organisations
✅ Find practical ideas you can adopt and tailor to your own workplace
✅ Connect with like-minded leaders, change-makers, and allies
All while enjoying a delicious cooked breakfast and fantastic coffee to kick-start your day.
Why attend?
Because change is contagious. It’s easier — and faster — to adopt and adapt proven best practices than to start from scratch. Together, we can create a ripple effect of actions that drive equality forward — helping to bring gender equity to reality well before 2130.
Our Vision:
Creating equality for all — one conversation, one action, one workplace at a time.
✨ Event Highlights:
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Live Panel Discussions with Past Winners
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Special Showcase of Community Partners and Sponsors
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Networking with Industry Leaders and Advocates
Be part of the groundswell.
Together, we rise. 🌟
Our Panellists
ROBYN VERRAL
CEO Harvesting Potential
REN ZHANG
COLES Engagement Manager
BELINDA PERISIC
Coulter Legal COO
SHAUN CUMMINGS
Barwon Water CEO
MEL MARTINELLI
Executive Director, Equity and Inclusion, Deakin University
RHIANNON TANNER
Senior Coordinator Primary Prevention – Equity and Inclusion, Deakin University
ANDY STEEDS
Head of Talent Acquisition | Australia & New Zealand at Capgemini
Our Sponsors



