Friends at Five Thirty
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Join us for a fun, inspiring, and insightful evening at our third Friends at Five Thirty for 2026!
This special event is designed to bring our community together and showcase the incredible talents and stories of people from within it.
We ask our speakers to share a story about a topic of their choosing; their why, what inspires them, what makes them tick.
You'll need to be in the room to hear it, secure your seat today.
A huge thank you to our Friends at Five Thirty sponsor, Sotheby's International Realty.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Event Schedule
- 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Drinks and canapés
Enjoy mingling with fellow guests over delicious drinks and canapés.
- 6:00 pm - 6:45 pm
Speakers Commence
This time, we have three very impressive Alumnae joining us. Each of our speakers will take the stage for around 15 minutes to share their inspiring stories.
- 6:45 pm - 7:00 pm
Panel Q&A
We will wrap up with a panel Q&A, which is your opportunity to ask our speakers anything!
Our Speaker Lineup
Anna Johnstone - Founder & CEO The Female Career, Rangi Ruru Alumna
Anna Johnstone is the Founder and CEO of The Female Career, a coaching and consulting organisation that improves gender balance at work in Aotearoa. Anna holds an MSc in Applied Psychology and an MBA from IMD Business School in Switzerland. She spent 17 years working overseas in senior HR and commercial roles for global organisations such as Shell and Mars before returning home to Aotearoa in 2020. She loves coaching women to thrive in their work and careers and hosts a top-ranking podcast where kiwi women share their career stories. She’s also a māmā to 3 energetic boys.
Lucy Pink - Co-Founder & Director Contented, Rangi Ruru Alumna
Lucy Pink is a self-taught developer and the co-founder of Contented. She learned to code because the AI tools she wanted didn't exist yet. Contented records conversations and transforms them into templated documents, insights, analysis, charts and marketing content. The platform has grown exponentially and is now trusted by 400 companies around the world. Those customers span industries and sizes, from financial services firms like Craigs Investment Partners to media organisations like Stuff. Lucy works at the intersection of technology and people. She's drawn to building software that uses AI in a way that's both safe and powerful, without losing what makes the work human.
Miranda Satterthwaite - CEO Aotearoa Aerospace Academy, Rangi Ruru Alumna
Miranda Satterthwaite grew up under the stars of the Dark Sky Reserve, Lake Tekapo, developing a love for astronomy. She studied sciences at University of Otago and Digital Technologies at University of Canterbury. She holds both a Masters Degree in International Law - Space Law and a Masters Degree in Educational Leadership. She is also qualified as an International Alpine Ski Coach and Instructor and is a registered teacher. Miranda was selected to train in STEM education through a range of NASA bases in the USA, including NASA Marshall Flight Centre, NASA Kennedy Centre, NASA Armstrong Flight Centre and NASA Ames Centre and she has flown twice with NASA Sofia on astronomy Missions about the Antarctic Circle. She has worked at both Ara Institute of Canterbury and University of Canterbury Engineering Schools in STEM education and outreach. She is the former Academy Director for the International Antarctic Centre where she guided astro-tourism in 787 Aircraft about the Aurora in the Southern Skies. There she developed the Mission to Space programmes where, within a curriculum-based framework, students are led through interactive programmes along themes ranging from the survival in extreme environments to technology tested for space exploration. Since then she has been a Rocket Lab Educator, the Academy Manager at Aerospace New Zealand and currently is the CEO of the Aotearoa Aerospace Academy. Most recently she was selected as a Prime Minister’s Scholar to Asia visiting India and Thailand and she is currently a Judge for the Prime Minister’s Space Prize.
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