Megan Dalla-Camina has had a wide spanning business career across Australia, Asia and the US, working in business strategy, marketing, business development and management roles. In her current role as Director of Strategy for IBM, she is responsible for developing both the short and long term IBM business strategies, with a focus on strategic growth initiatives and operational excellence.

Megan is also an active member of the IBM Diversity Council with a focus on the women in the workplace, workforce flexibility and work life balance initiatives, and is the Executive Sponsor for the Advancement of Women in IBM.

Anne Summers is a best-selling author and journalist who has had a long career in politics and the media. Her political background includes her time as a political adviser to Prime Minister Paul Keating prior to the 1993 federal elections and she ran the Office of the Status of Women for Prime Minister Bob Hawke from 1983 to 1986. From 2000-2006 she was Chair of the board of Greenpeace International, and is currently Deputy President of Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum.

Taren Hocking is a Director of Champion Event Management Pty Ltd and co-founder of the Serious Women’s Business Conference. Champion Events was established 1999 as an offshoot to Champion Travel. Over the last few years the business has become an emerging force in the MICE industry. The directors have since expanded the organisation to encompass Champion Sports a national distributor & agency for a range of international golfing brands. Taren has over 10 years experience in the event industry, has served as a board member of Unifem Australia and is a member of the International Entrepreneurs' Association.

AMANDA J MOSTYN, Grad Cert HRM, GAICD

Ms Mostyn was appointed General Manager, People & Development of ASX Limited in December 2006 following the merger of the Australian Stock Exchange and the Sydney Futures Exchange.

Ms Mostyn is responsible for ASX’s HR Business Services, Remuneration & Benefits, Learning & Development and ASX in the Community functions.  She represents ASX as a Director of ASX /Reuters Charity Foundation and is a member of the Serious Women’s Business (SWB) Annual Conference Organising Committee.

Ms Mostyn has held a number of senior management roles in Administration and Human Resources in the Finance and Manufacturing sectors.

Wilma Stevens
Most of Wilma's lengthy career has been within Human Resources, particularly Employee Relations and Diversity. For many years Wilma was the Commonwealth Bank's National Diversity Manager before taking up an Executive role at the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency, (EOWA).  Then moving on to a role with an EAP provider as its Global Work/Life Manager, Wilma now proudly works for KPMG as its Manager People and Culture.

Wilma is a long time member of the NSW EEO Practitioners Association, many years on the executive committee and is a founding member of the Australian National Diversity Think Tank.  She is passionate and energetic around the issues of diversity and work/life balance.

Wilma was honoured to receive EOWA's National Diversity Leader for The Advancement of Women award at the 2002 Business Achievement awards.

Jo Reed 

Elise Morris Group People & Performance Manager - Pacific Brands

Elise is an experienced HR professional currently in the role of Group People & Performance Manager, Home Comfort for Pacific Brands, one of Australia’s largest consumer goods companies. Pacific Brands employs over 9,000 people globally and 6,000 in Australia and New Zealand. The company has sales of over $2.2 billion across apparel, underwear, footwear, leisure goods, and homewares. Key brands include Bonds, Sheridan, Holeproof, Yakka, Dunlop, Mossimo, Everlast, Grosby, Clarks and Hush Puppies. Prior to joining Pacific Brands in 2003, Elise spent time working across a number of different industries including, retail, manufacturing, and emergency services in roles within HR, Sales, Business Management and Marketing. Elise has a particular interest in behavioural change, team alignment, talent development and cultural diversity.

Andrea Bell - Human Resources Manager, Organisation Development - Freehills

Andrea Bell is an experienced HR professional who currently leads the Organisational Development and Learning Group at Freehills, a leading Australian commercial law firm. Freehills has around 1,000 lawyers, including over 200 partners, throughout Australia and South-East Asia. They act for more than 75 per cent of Australia’s top 100 listed companies, addressing some of their most important and complex business issues.

Andrea has designed and implemented throughout Freehills progressive leadership, dialogue and cultural development programs. She is responsible for the ongoing development of a national learning curriculum focusing on talent and excellence, and leads the development of firm wide initiatives including strategies and programs to support the retention and development of talented women, organisational design and development solutions, and strategies to increase retention and engagement of employees and to support and further extend Freehills’ high performance culture.

Snez Jankulovski, Diversity Manager, Telstra Corporation Ltd
[B.A.(Hons), University of Melbourne, 1994]

Snez Jankulovski is the Diversity Manager at Telstra Corporation Ltd, specialising in the areas of Diversity, Equity, Talent Management and Organisational Development. Snez leads a Diversity Council consisting of Telstra’s Group Managing Directors and senior executives whose charter is to maximise the business benefits of diversity.

Regarded as an expert in Equity and Diversity management in large and complex organisations, Snez has a distinguished record of success in cultural and demographic change.  In 2005, Snez was nominated for a national Diversity @ Work Leadership in Diversity Award and was also elected as Deputy Chair of the National Diversity Think Tank.

 

Sarah Taylor, Client Relationship Manager - Hewitt Associates Pty Ltd

Sarah is an international executive specializing in sales and marketing communication and processes. Her clients include organizations wanting to grow global brands, align culture, brand and customers, create high performance sales teams, and individuals working to develop or strengthen their personal brand.

She has an intimate knowledge of the application of commercial practices to intellectual property (products and solutions), gained in a range of environments including internet start-up's, professional service firms, and Australia/USA/Asia's leading companies.

Sarah has consulted extensively in programmes delivering market acquisition and growth, brand repositioning, brand extension, strategic alliances, product development, product roll-out, business transition, team development, culture change, and operational performance improvement.

Sandra Pigdon
Alcoa World Alumina - Australia Booragoon, WA

Sandra J. Pigdon is Alcoa’s Controller - Projects.

In this role, she is provides specialist financial and commercial advice to the Project Leadership team and Executive Management in the areas of accounting, finance, tax, project management, audit, research and development, business process controls and compliance requirements.

She was appointed to this role in July 2007.

Her previous role was Regional Financial Accounting Manager and was responsible monthend close and reporting, monthly forecasting and annual planning, administration of accounting and business policies and compliance with A IFRS and US GAAP. One of the major achievements was the successful implementation of A IFRS for Alcoa of Australia.

In her career with Alcoa, Ms Pigdon has held senior accounting positions at most of the Australian locations.

Ms Pigdon joined Alcoa in 1988 as an Internal Auditor at the then corporate office in Melbourne after working as an accountant at Melbourne Water.

Ms Pigdon has a Bachelors Degree in Accounting from Swinburne University, a Masters of Business Administration from Curtin University and is a Certified Practicing Accountant.

She has served on a number of non profit organisation Boards in treasury and honorary audit positions.

She lives in Mandurah WA with her husband and two sons.