An online learning event as part of WASEC's Learning Community Series, supported by SEDI

Join WASEC this August for an engaging online panel showcasing the diverse leadership approaches of WA changemakers who are empowering microenterprises to thrive.

What you’ll gain
Hear from local West Australian leaders breaking down social, physical, and professional barriers - supporting people to learn the skills they need to run and grow their own businesses.
You'll leave with fresh insights into how micro social enterprises can build individual capacity, strengthen communities, and create new pathways to participation.

Learn how different models work, why they matter, and how you can support the growth of microenterprise in your own work.

Who should attend?
This session is designed for social enterprises, purpose-driven businesses, and community organisations interested in learning about the diverse approaches being used to support microenterprise across WA.

Want to learn more?
Sign up to our event page to stay in the loop about upcoming Learning Community sessions, or contact Rosie at hello@wasec.org.au for more information.

About our speakers

Stacie Mei Laccohee-Duffield

Stacie Mei (She/Her) is the Founding Director and QCEO of Queer and Diverse Pathways Pty Ltd, a lived experience-led social enterprise supporting LGBTQIA+SB and neurodivergent communities. Her work centres on the intersections of queerness, neurodiversity, and systemic change, grounded in the belief that no young person should have to live a journey like hers.

With over 25 years’ experience across engineering, mental health, the public sector, and now community services, Stacie Mei brings a rare blend of strategic leadership and lived experience. She has held senior roles in business and governance, but her heart remains grounded in grassroots peer work. As a suicide prevention peer worker and trans woman, her approach is anchored in social justice, relational care, and the power of collective action took take an identity first approach to meeting people where they are at!

Through Queer and Diverse Pathways, she is building sustainable, peer-led micro-enterprises that reinvest directly into community - proving that real change doesn’t need permission from broken systems or political willpower. Change starts with us - we believe in the power of By community, for community.

Clare Wood

Clare is the Director of Enterprise Partnerships WA, working with First Nations women in the Kimberley using entrepreneurship as a pathway to healing, leadership, economic empowerment and self determination.

Clare uses a trauma informed and decolonising approach to enterprise development, which promotes economic inclusion whilst fostering connection to country, culture and language.

Clare facilitate’s women to hope, dream and build leadership and entrepreneurial skills with a focus on the health and wellbeing of their families and communities.

Sharna Jarvis

Coming from a corporate background, Sharna saw an opportunity to better support young people with disabilities to live the life they choose. In 2022 Sharna founded Microenterprise People and Microenterprise Launchpad to support people with disabilities to achieve their employment goals, and run a network of disability support providers empowering individuals through customised employment. Microenterprise People now operates several commercial enterprises in Perth city.

This event is delivered as a part of WASEC's Peer Learning and Support (PL&S) learning community focused on supporting micro social enterprises in Western Australia with skills and knowledge to sustain themselves and thrive. Commissioned by Social Enterprise Australia as part of the Australian Government’s Social Enterprise Development Initiative (SEDI), these learning communities help build sector capability to grow social impact.

Explore WASEC’s online workshops and resources for microenterprises across Western Australia on our website.