She is a Partner at SLF Lawyers who has over 12 years of experience in commercial litigation during which time I have focused predominantly in practice areas of property, strata, debt recovery and insolvency. She is passionate about achieving results for her clients and willing to face the challenges of litigation head-on.

Some of her time is spent teaching with the Australian National University in their post-graduate law courses where she enjoys enabling the next generation of lawyers. Being fluent in Italian has also enabled her to assist clients and mentees from a non-English speaking background in resolving their legal disputes and navigating their way through the legal system.

Annie commenced her career in Recruitment in 1994 and over the past 20 years prior to co-founding Sprout Recruitment Annie held Senior Management roles within some of the worlds largest recruitment organisations including Select, Manpower and People Infrastructure.

Annie has delivered successful business outcomes for organisations from small family businesses to global organisations across a diverse range of industries.

Holding formal qualifications in Communications, Psychology and business management Annie is Passionate about leadership, people and believes that communication is the key to both personal and business success.

When not working Annie enjoys time with her family and friends on the beautiful NSW Central Coast and has a keen interest in Horse Racing. Annie is passionate about PT by the waterfront and skiing in Winter to maintain balance in a hectic crazy world.

Shilpa is an Executive Architect for Oracle’ Strategic Clients in APAC. She works with her clients as a trusted advisor to help them make the right choices for their business when partnering with Oracle across data, applications, platform, infrastructure and industry solutions.

She has over 20 years of global experience with large organizations in a variety of consulting, strategy and delivery roles. She has helped multiple clients shape their investments to achieve strategic business outcomes and realize sustainable long term value from their technology investments.

Shilpa is a thought leader with extensive experience in Financial Services & Banking. With a customer centric approach, she is passionate about solving complex problems for enterprises.

Shilpa holds a Bachelor’s in Finance and Master’s in Computers. She grew up in India and lived in the UK before moving to Sydney. She enjoys playing board games and travelling with family in her spare time. She is always ready for a good chat – work or otherwise.

She is a people and culture expert and Founder, Human Art – Career and Leadership Coaching. Leesa has over 15 years in Human Resource and Organisational Development with a strong track record leading strategic business partnering, diversity and inclusion, and culture transformation projects in complex, challenging and ambiguous circumstances.

Her key strengths are helping leaders and organisations navigate change and uncertainty, connecting people, ideas and opportunity. Leesa has worked in multiple industry sectors including IT, government, private education, financial services, property, telecommunications, and managed services. Prior to working in HR, Leesa managed a number of key change projects and led high performing operational teams in sales and customer service.

Leesa is an IECL Level 2 Certified Executive Coach, and is also Certified in Career Coaching, Mental Health First Aid, Psychological Safety, DiSC and the Hogan Personality Inventory. Leesa set up her own consulting, career and leadership coaching business – Human Art, 6 years ago. Her coaching practice is heart centred and leverages the latest research in neuroscience, and future of work studies.

She loves working with forward thinking leaders, emerging talent and start up founders, helping them create and craft their own style of leadership and entrepreneurship. Leesa is passionate about enabling individuals and organisations to reimagine and create a more positive and productive relationship with work. Leesa also enjoys mentoring women, youth and refugees on a pro-bono basis. She is an accomplished speaker and facilitator.

Kris has been a health & wellness advocate since she was 15! She has studied Science, Exercise Physiology, PE and nutrition, and spends her time writing, speaking, and consulting on all things health, wellness, Travel & Spa. 

Her career in the health and fitness industry spans 30 years, accumulating a wealth of knowledge and experience, including facilitating health & wellness workshops in both Australia and over seas.

She has authored several books, with her latest book, The Low HI Diet (New Holland) has sold globally.

She publishes Travel, Wellness & Spa magazine and blog (travelwellnessandspa.com.au) a media platform  inspiring readers to achieve an abundance of vitality and wellness in their everyday lives. And owns a results-driven fitness studio (icycleinside.com) which feeds her love for helping people push beyond their comfort zone.

For more of Kris’s work, to join her blog, to try one of her programs or join one of her retreats visit krisabbey.com.au or follow @spagirlkris.

Pia is a business leader with a career built over 20+ years in the technology community. She has worked with global and local IT channel organisations to grow and expand their reach and yield to achieve financial and business goals. Pia has built high performing teams with outcomes focused mindsets; and has supported the career growth and personal development of many individuals throughout her career.

Pia has a passion for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and had led the creation of DEI councils and initiatives across the industry to drive a culture of openness, inclusion, and allyship within teams; and to empower individuals to bring their whole selves to work.

Pia’s career history and personal journey includes many transitions and challenges including a complete career and industry change; the decision to take time off to become the primary caregiver,  re entering the workforce as a working mum (her kids are now  teens – yikes!); transitioning from being an individual contributor, to team leader, back to individual contributor, to manager, to now business leader. Through these transitions Pia has approached the challenges and opportunities by cultivating a strong sense of self-belief.

Simone Filetti is passionate about people, partnership and teams in the ICT industry. Simone has consistently brought her energy, skills and capabilities to her roles to effectively contribute to business operations and play an active part in fostering work cultures of inclusivity and empowerment. She strives in building high performance teams and driving customer value through innovation.

Simone also supports and encourages a balance of genders and generations, and different cultural, religious and educational backgrounds. Simone leads working groups across the business to highlight the importance of diverse teams which in turn enable outstanding results and creativity.

Simultaneously to this, Simone is active in her leadership and participation in HPE-partner events like Lean In Circles and Virtual Coffee Session, as well as community activities including volunteering at the Smith family, Our big Kitchen and Foodbank.

In addition to the above, Simone also makes herself available to coach and mentor young employees and early career hires through one-on-one sessions. Not only does she offer this opportunity to team members within the organisations where she has worked, but also broadly to anyone in the ICT industry, often at times connecting through social media or via word-of-mouth recommendations from her current and previous colleagues.

CEO/Founder, Taurus Marketing

Dedicated to Entrepreneurship Sharon is a pioneer in the Australian agency industry and a Fellow of the Public Relations Institute of Australia. In 1995, she established Taurus, a boutique integrated marketing PR agency after a successful career in marketing and management across the UK, Europe and Asia. Taurus has since gone on to help over 1000 businesses.

Under Sharon’s leadership, Taurus is now recognised as one of Australia’s highest profile agencies, offering unparalleled levels of service to entrepreneurs and global corporations including Dicker Data and HCL Technologies.

Sharon was instrumental in helping founding client KAZ Group go from media obscurity to one of Australia’s highest-profile and largest information communications technology companies. Public speaker, personal brand expert, blogger, CEO, media commentator, ‘no bull’ international marketer, entrepreneur, editorial contributor and Mother – Sharon’s experience and knowledge is an unbeatable combination.

Rebecca Moroney brings over 20 years of ICT experience, having worked for some of the largest global brands and her own consultancy business, helping clients to develop transformation strategies within their own environment and initiatives those organizations can take to market.

Bek’s is currently ANZ Director, Strategic Pursuits Practice at VMware – leading a broad team of consultants, architects and commercial analysts to strategically pursue larger transformation engagements in VMware’s top 26 clients. Prior to that, Bek was State Government and Health Industry Leader at IBM, where she was responsible for the leadership of key pursuit initiatives and brand differentiation to Market. Prior to IBM, Bek was Northern Region Business director at HP, where she was responsible for the strategy development and team build of the Managed Services business for End User Compute, leading the business to 200% growth YoY over 5 years and teams to acquire several >$100mil new logo business deals. Bek’s professional passions are engaging with and building successful teams, developing pursuit initiatives that are unique to each client and leading businesses to successful change.

As the Head of Alliances and Marketing of Outcomex in Australia, Sharlie Raymond works with technology vendors to best position their products within her company’s portfolio. Having completed a Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing and a Master’s Degree in IT Project Management, Sharlie leverages her decade of experience to develop new partnerships with key industry players, and to increase brand awareness, loyalty, and credibility. Alongside these responsibilities, she manages a team, distributed across three states, and encourages them to find innovative ways to promote the value of Outcomex’s solutions for customers.

In recognition for her contribution to the technology industry, Sharlie was awarded ARN’s Emerging Leaders Award: 30 under 30 in 2019, and was a finalist for the ARN Women in ICT: Rising Star award in 2017 and 2020.

Sharlie is dedicated to promoting the next generation of women and give them the confidence and guidance to achieve their own goals and realise their full potential.

Celine Dickson is currently the National Manager of Allianz Financial Institutions Partnerships Division, leading a sales team of 25 people, 23 banking Partnerships and a business portfolio in excess of $286 Million.

Celine’s record of success has been achieved in driving growth for both direct, intermediated and partnership channels which has been underpinned by a diverse range of interpersonal, strategic and technical skills developed over 18 years.

In 2017, Celine was selected to lead a major Global Transformation project leading to the merger and acquisition of one of the US leading InsureTech companies which redefined customer experience and growth in the insurance industry.

Katrin has been Chief Operations Officer at Steadfast Underwriting Agencies between April 2018 and April 2022, where she has led multiple performance enhancing projects, particularly within the technologies and robotics space.

Steadfast Underwriting Agencies is the largest insurance underwriting agency group in Australasia with 24 agencies and 100+ products.

Katrin is well recognised for her technical insurance knowledge, her ability to challenge the status quo and to drive new business enhancing solutions. She believes that technology should take away the ordinary tasks and enable people to do the extraordinary.

Katrin has been recognised as one of the “Elite Women in Insurance 2021” in the 10.04 issue of the “Insurance Business Australia” magazine.

Katrin is also a strong advocate of the DiveIn festival, a global festival which supports diversity and inclusion in insurance.

In addition, she was a committee member of Steadfast’s Reconciliation Action Plan, which aims to encourage a deeper understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Lastly, Katrin is an ambassador for the Children’s Cancer Institute, CEO Dare to Cure event. The number one priority of the Institute is to deliver the research that will lead to ZERO childhood cancer.

Empowering women to be who they are, and do what they want, without the self-sacrifice that is engrained in many of us is a mission close to my heart. I am fulfilled when I can help facilitate someone to first understand and then breakthrough what has been holding them back.

I have led teams in global and regional senior leadership positions in the technology industry, I have developed many training and development programs and mentoring programs, and most recently in the middle of a pandemic, decided to throw it all in to follow my dreams of being a coach and running my own business. From imposter syndrome, perfectionism, self-judgment, our inner-critic, conditional self-esteem, our fear of “being seen”, caring what others think, the worry of being misunderstood, feeling unheard…. I’ve seen, and experienced it all.

Now as a coach, my unique approach promotes shifts in thinking and behavioural patterns getting at the heart of what has been getting in my clients way, and helping women to move from uncertain to unstoppable leadership by building the clarity, confidence, communication skills and capability needed for success.

I look forward to giving back through Mentor Mornings, and look forward to meeting you soon.

After partnering with Jeep, United Colors of Benetton, and Sesame Street, I built a global manufacturing company in my twenties. Collaborating locally to secure media coverage, distribution in David Jones, Target, and Big W plus a promotion with Huggies Nappies enabled me to turn over $1+million in my first year, before scaling to a global company.

After successfully selling my first company, I moved into ecommerce with $500m ASX listed company, Grays Commerce Group I led partnerships and social revenue before moving into a General Manager role in their jewellery division – selling over $7 million worth of precious diamonds and gems nationally.

I now work with the big brands collaborating with The Block, Selling Houses Australia, Three Birds Renovations, and identities like Shelley Craft to secure these high-profile brands a constant stream of content, build credibility, and grow sales.

I am an engaging, passionate speaker, mentor to women in small business, and ambassador for Inspiring Rare Birds.  At home in Sydney, you’ll find me playing Rummy with my two teenage sons while my husband is in the garage restoring his vintage car or enjoying a cocktail by the harbour with my girlfriends.