Podcasts about westpac women

IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL DISCOVER:What is the Possibility world viewWhy is ‘with' such an important concept in todays world?Why design is critical for an accessible future.ABOUT MINNIEMinnie Baragwanath is a renowned access innovator in Aotearoa and globally. Her work and study in this space spans 30 years and has included many diverse roles. She is also a highly sought after independent author, coach and consultant.Minnie recently released her book about her life and work as a blind woman and social entrepreneur, ‘Blindingly Obvious'.  Not only is this a book about social change and accessibility in our world today, it also strives to be the most accessible book ever produced. In addition to her work as an independent consultant, coach and author,  Minnie is currently the Chief Possibility Officer and Founder of the Global Centre of Possibility . Minnie is currently working on a very ambitious 25-year initiative here in Aotearoa, to create the first ever City of Possibility in the world.Minnie has been awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit, the Sir Peter Blake Leadership Award, the Westpac Women of Influence Diversity award, the Zonta women's award and was placed as a top 10 finalist for the Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year. CONNECT WITH MINNIEVisit Minnie's Website www.minnieb.co.nzFind out about the Global Centre for Possibility - www.gcop.co.nzCheck out the Wikipedia page for Minnie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnie_Baragwanath 

Today's guest is Dr Lucy Hone - a truly remarkable woman who is a renowned global expert on resilience, a best-selling author and, she delivered one of the most popular Ted Talks in 2020. Lucy is the Director of the New Zealand Institute of Wellbeing & Resilience. I had the privilege of seeing her speak a year ago at the Westpac Women of Influence Breakfast, and I have been wanting to chat to her on this podcast ever since. Fair to say, she did NOT disappoint!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In a past career, she was a top wool handler and wool classer who's been in the shearing industry all her life, representing New Zealand in Wool Handling in 2005 and 2013. Last night she was crowned the winner of the Primary Industry Award at the Westpac Women of Influence Awards. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Alexia Hilbertidou is a sought-after speaker who has spoken to more than 80,000 people in corporate offices, government agencies and schools. Alexia's passion for Science Technology, Engineering, Maths leadership and entrepreneurship led her to create GirlBoss New Zealand when she was just 16 years old. GirlBoss NZ has now become a 13,500 strong network for ambitious, young New Zealand women. With over 33 Honours and Awards to her name, Alexia was named the most influential New Zealand woman under 25 at the Westpac Women of Influence Awards and the 2020 Pacific Young Entrepreneur of the Year. She was selected from over 20,000 nominations to be named a Queen's Young Leader and receive a medal for Services to the Commonwealth at Buckingham Palace from Her Majesty The Queen, the youngest Commonwealth citizen to ever receive this honour. Alexia joins us on the line to talk about Girl Boss NZ and the GirlBoss Awards and nationwide search for trailblazing young women. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Leonie Freeman is the Chief Executive of Property Council New Zealand and has had an extensive and accomplished career in the NZ property industry, in both the public and private sectors. Her previous work has included: creating the concept of what is now realestate.co.nz buying and transforming her own residential property management business strategic property advisor during the establishment of the Auckland Council General Manager Asset Development for Housing New Zealand leading an independent philanthropic institute to solve Auckland's housing crisis Leonie has been widely recognised for her contributions including in 2017 being a finalist in the Westpac Women of Influence Awards and was also awarded the Property Institute's Supreme Property Award the same year. "Put your hand up to speak at an event, to chair something, to get on a committee, to take a leadership opportunity in your organization. Put your hand up rather than wait for somebody to come."

Anita dropped out of school at 13 and spent many years working with the team at Nutrimetics. When the 3rd party contractor was no longer able to fulfil their commitments, Anita put her hand up and said that she would take over the opportunity. After consulting with her family, she decided to take the leap and immersed herself into launching the business. Over the years they have restructured many times, to create a safe place for their team to ultimately become a 2020 finalist in the Westpac Women of Influence Awards. With her team comprising of 95% young females from diverse backgrounds, Anita is able to deeply relate to them, and knows that they are depending on her bravery, courage and often crazy traits to be able to keep it all going.

As a Maori Indigenous Woman, Rachel is an advocate for gender equality with a strong focus on empowering indigenous women, an innate characteristic that she embodied as she grew up, and observing the roles of women in her community. Launching Rise2025 Global, Rachel left the safety of her corporate role and jumped into the unknown as something didn't quite fill her cup. The stats for women in leadership were dismal, she always took her mistakes as learnings and often called it out for women to let the ladder down for other women. Through daily mindful walking, the practice of gratitude and reciting the Maori Karakia - prayers used to invoke spiritual guidance and protection, Rachel has a big year ahead lead by growth, scale, opportunity and partnerships. As the co-author of Take Your Space a book for all women, supported by interviews with 14 women and their secrets to success. A 2020 Westpac Women of Influence, Global category finalist amongst other international accolades she continues to lead the way for Indigenous women. https://www.onetree-house.com/product-page/take-your-space She calls on all women to make and create space for other women, through support, coaching, mentoring and connecting and leading the next generation with great role models.

This week I had the pleasure of Robbie Sefton joining me on AgTalk. Robbie is the founder and managing director of Seftons, a communication agency providing services in corporate affairs, government and media relations, strategic communications and marketing, digital and social media, event management, facilitation and community consultation programs. Robbie specialises in facilitating groups through contentious and challenging issues. A producer of wool, meat and grains, Robbie is a graduate of the Australian Rural Leadership Program, the 2002 RIRDC NSW Rural Woman of the Year and a member of numerous boards and advisory groups for governments, businesses and not-for-profits. Since 1990 she has lived, worked and traveled all over regional, rural and remote Australia as a rural leader and advocate. She is known and respected by farmers, agribusiness, Ministers, and people at all levels in between. Robbie was listed in 2015 as a Westpac Women of Influence and last but not least we had the pleasure of Robbie's presentation at the 2018 Marcus Oldham Rural Leadership Dinner. I consider myself fortunate on several occasions to have spent some time with Robbie discussing the issues of rural Australia and have always found her engaging and insightful and who best to invite on to the 20th episode of Marcus AgTalk podcast to discuss why farmers need to care about social license and how Australian agriculture need to position itself in a post COVID-19 world.

Dr Monique Faleafa has worked in the health sector over the past 20 years in clinical management, governance and consultancy roles.  She was the founding Chief Executive of Le Va a national NGO focused on Pacific people’s wellbeing.  She is a clinical psychologist and advocate for improving equity in health and social outcomes for Pacific and disadvantaged communities. Dr Faleafa was deputy chair of the New Zealand Psychologists board for 9 years, and currently serves on two crown entities as Deputy Chair of the Health Promotion Agency, and the Health Research Council of New Zealand. In 2016, Monique was awarded as a Member of the NZ Order of Merit and a finalist in the Westpac Women of Influence awards. Dr Faleafa is now a wellbeing consultant to the government and private sector. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

Mahsa Mohaghegh is a Senior Lecturer and also Director of Women in Tech in AUT's School of Computer, Engineering, and Mathematical Sciences. She is a well-recognised leader in Artificial Intelligence and machine learning. She is also the founder of the charitable trust She Sharp, a women's technology networking and learning group, where she works to encourage young New Zealand girls to consider what a career in technology offers. For the past seven years, Mahsa had organised and led Google CS4HS (Computer Science for High Schools) workshops in Auckland, with a recent focus on providing high school teachers with the skills to implement New Zealand's new digital technologies curriculum. She was named winner of the Emerging Leader category in the 2013 Westpac Women of Influence Awards and was one of ten finalists for 2018 Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year. In 2019 she was the Champion Award winner of the YWCA Equal Pay awards, and in 2020 presented with the Massey University Distinguished Alumni Award. "Stop trying to change yourself too much. Focus more on your own capability. Never give up, and you just need to keep pressing on. Don't let anyone ever tell you that you cannot do it. Technology fields, they need females. They do really need them."

Alexia is the founder and CEO of GirlBoss NZ - an 11,000 strong army of young women who are determined to achieve gender equality in their lifetimes.Dismayed by the under representation of women in leadership roles Alexia founded GirlBoss when she was just 16. Encouraging young women to embrace STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths), leadership and entrepreneurship, GirlBoss is now New Zealand’s largest organisation for young women. It’s members are shrugging off the statistics and preparing themselves to take their seats at the table - the boardroom table that is.At 17, Alexia was the youngest person to lead a research project at the New Zealand Treasury - and at 18 - she was selected to seek new stars and planets on the NASA SOFIA mission.She was named the most influential young leader under the age of 25 at the Westpac Women of Influence awards and recently returned from Buckingham Palace where she received the Queen’s Young Leader medal for services to the commonwealth. She is the youngest Commonwealth citizen to ever receive this honour.Alexia proves that you are never too young (or too short) to be an agitator for change

Cheryl is a leadership futurist and expert in education and in this interview we combine the two into a far reaching discussion about what is to come in relation to the future of learning.  We also talked about her background as a school principal, the impact of a child dying of abuse on an entire school community, the recent Future of Learning conference she co-organised with Hamish Duff (from Recalibrate) as well as her work at Think Beyond. c.doig@thinkbeyond.co.nz https://www.thinkbeyond.co.nz https://business.facebook.com/futureoflearningnz/ https://futureoflearning.nz @nzstevenmoe  Cheryl is a leadership futurist who sees exponential technologies as an opportunity to amplify our human characteristics. She loves challenging organisations to think differently in order to adapt to a rapidly changing and complex world. This world must consider equity, ethics and social impact as our preferred future. Cheryl has been an award-winning principal and is involved in a number of strategic roles and foresight projects. This includes Grow Waitaha, a project supporting Christchurch schools through the change process. In 2017 Cheryl was a finalist in the Westpac Women of Influence Awards, in the Innovation and Science category. She is currently a Board Chair of the NZ Brain Research Institute,  Establishment Board Chair of Haeata Community Campus and serves as a trustee for Limitless and Food for Thought Trusts. Cheryl is a member of the Association of Professional Futurists and the World Future Society.

At 16 Alexia Hilbertidou looked around and saw that she was the only girl in her IT and physics class, then the next year the only young women in advanced physics.What was going on? How did women go from the forefront of coding to underrepresentation at a time when it is meant to be more accessible than ever? Well, to change the ratio you have to change the structure. So Alexia decided to take the message to young women while still choosing what subjects they would take, and so founded GirlBoss NZ, an organisation which encourages young women to embrace STEM, Entrepreneurship and higher leadership. In just 18 months, GirlBoss NZ is New Zealand’s second largest network of women with nearly 8000 members. At 18-years-old, just finished high-school, Alexia has spoken to nearly 20,000 young people, teachers and business professionals about gender equity, STEM, and the future of work. This passion for future-focussed education has seen her named a Top 30 Global Teen Leader, a Top 5 Young Leader by the Ministry of Youth Development, and the most influential New Zealand woman under the age of 25 at the 2016 Westpac Women of Influence Awards. A serial entrepreneur Alexia also was the National Winner of the Unitec Coding App Competition, at 16, receiving a $30,000 prize for KaiShare - an online food redistribution platform. …To talk changing the ratio, and her work, Alexia joins us now. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dr Ranjana Srivastava is a well-decorated oncologist that also holds numerous accolades, including the Westpac Women of Influence Award, recipient of the Medal of the Order of Australia for her service to medicine in the field of doctor-patient communication, and award-winning