Connect, Create, Collaborate Businesswomen's Event Wellington

Name: Connect, Create, Collaborate Businesswomen's Event Wellington
Start: 2026-10-14T16:30:00+1300
End: 2026-10-14T19:30:00+1300
Location: Business Central

Wed, 14 Oct, 4:30pm - 7:30pm NZDT

Business Central

Wellington, New Zealand

Carolyn Banks

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Connecting women. Creating opportunities. Building success together.

What happens when ambitious women, experienced business leaders, emerging entrepreneurs, and future changemakers come together in one room?

Something powerful happens.

Connections are formed. Ideas are created. Collaborations begin.

Connect, Create, Collaborate is about bringing women together to build relationships, spark new thinking, and discover opportunities that can shape the future of their businesses, careers, and leadership journeys. Because sometimes all it takes is one connection, one conversation, or one collaborative idea to create a breakthrough.

Join NZ Businesswomen, Business Central and Icehouse for a unique networking event that brings together women from different generations, industries, experiences, and stages of business and leadership.

We'll begin with facilitated networking, so there's no awkward standing around wondering who to talk to, move into engaging speed networking sessions, and finish with relaxed social networking, because we all know great things happen when inspiring women connect over a glass of wine.

Throughout the evening you'll have the opportunity to:

• Connect with inspiring women and expand your professional network
• Create new ideas, possibilities and opportunities through meaningful conversations
• Collaborate with women who share knowledge, experience and a genuine desire to see others succeed
• Gain fresh perspectives and insights
• Explore opportunities for growth, partnership and support
• Become part of a community that believes success is even more powerful when it's shared

Whether you're building a business, leading a team, growing your career, starting your entrepreneurial journey, or simply exploring what's possible next, this is your opportunity to surround yourself with women who understand that relationships aren't just nice to have, they're a growth strategy.

After all, your network really is your net worth - the right connection can create an opportunity, the right conversation can inspire a new idea, and the right collaboration can change everything! Growth happens when we put ourselves in rooms with people who challenge us to think bigger, dream bigger, and achieve more.

Say yes to the invitation. Say yes to the conversation. Say yes to the opportunity.

Join us at Connect, Create, Collaborate and discover what becomes possible when women come together with purpose, generosity and ambition.

Book your ticket today and be part of an evening of connection, opportunity and collaboration.

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Carolyn Banks

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Relationships Are a Business Strategy: Why Carolyn Banks Is Passionate About Helping Women Succeed

Carolyn Banks has spent more than four decades building businesses, leading teams, developing people, and helping organisations grow. Today, as CEO of New Zealand Businesswomen and New Zealand Business Academy, she leads two organisations dedicated to helping women build stronger businesses, stronger leadership capabilities, and stronger professional networks.

What makes Carolyn uniquely qualified to lead these organisations is that she understands the realities of business ownership firsthand.

Before joining NZ Businesswomen, she spent almost two decades running her own successful technology business, helping organisations implement solutions that improved performance and efficiency. Throughout that journey she experienced the challenges familiar to many business owners: making difficult decisions, managing growth, building teams, navigating uncertainty, and carrying the responsibility that comes with leadership.

Since becoming CEO in 2017, Carolyn has helped grow the NZ Businesswomen community, established the New Zealand Business Academy as its education arm, transitioned the organisation into a not-for-profit, and focused on building an organisation designed to create long-term impact for women in business throughout New Zealand.

She also serves on the EMA Members Advisory Board and as a Judge for Best Places to Work, giving her valuable insight into business leadership, workplace culture, organisational growth, and the challenges facing New Zealand businesses today.

But qualifications and experience are only part of the story.

At the heart of Carolyn's leadership philosophy is a simple belief:

Relationships are a business strategy.

In a business world often focused on transactions, Carolyn believes that genuine relationships are one of the most valuable and underutilised assets a business owner can have.

The strongest businesses are rarely built alone. They are built through trusted relationships, meaningful conversations, strategic partnerships, referrals, collaboration, mentoring, and communities of people who are willing to support one another's growth. Carolyn often talks about the fact that networking should never be about collecting contacts. It should be about creating opportunities. Opportunities that emerge through trust, authenticity, generosity, and a genuine desire to help others succeed.

Over her career, she has learned that some of the most important business opportunities begin with a simple conversation. A new client. A strategic partnership. A fresh idea. A word of encouragement. A valuable introduction. These moments often happen because someone took the time to build a relationship first.