Growing a Business with Impact

People are doing business differently. They're addressing social injustices, elevating women & people of colour in a range of industries & making sure customers are connected with purpose-led businesses making a positive impact in the world.

One Roof is proud to present a panel of women who are paving the way in impact-led businesses. They'll be sharing their journey to starting their businesses, the mission & values that underpin them and how they make sure that impact is not just a marketing tactic.

You'll learn:

• How to ensure mission, values & impact is ingrained in all aspects of your business
• Maintaining cash flow whilst ensuring your business is sustainable and ethical
• How to be an effective leader in an impact-led business

About the speakers

Zoe Condliffe
Zoë Condliffe is a data activist, gender advocate, researcher and Founder & CEO of She’s A Crowd, the biggest geospatial dataset of sexual assault and gender-based violence in the world and has collected upwards of 100,000 reports from survivors. She's A Crowd works with local governments, the transport sector and other decision-makers to support them to make cities safer for women and gender-diverse people. She's A Crowd is the National Winner for the Telstra Best of Business Awards, 2022. Zoe is listed on the Victorian Honour Roll of Women, and has been named one of the Top 100 most influential, creative and provocative people in Melbourne by The Age, one of the Women’s Weekly Women of the Future for Innovation and Technology in 2019 and her company was listed on the Smart Company Smart30 List for in 2018 and 2019. 

Abbey Pantano
Few people would see a global pandemic as an opportunity to open a cowork and event space, but this is exactly what Abbey did in May 2020. As a retail marketing specialist of 12 years, and eco side hustle owner for two, it was a stream of devastating world events and climate anxiety that led to a new dream... What if we brought together a community of impact-led entrepreneurs, dedicated to using their business as a force for good? The arrival of COVID created the platform Abbey needed to take the leap. Using a redundancy package, learnings from 12 years of big business and a failed purpose-built start up – Seed Spaces was born. Today the cowork and event space, based on the outskirts of Sydney’s CBD, has blossomed into an Australia-wide digital membership with 60+ social impact businesses in the mix (and growing!). With the power of community and a collaboration over competition mindset, there no limit to what Abbey hopes this incredible network can achieve.

Shelin David

Shelin is a start-up and scale-up advisor at CFOWorx, with a focus on finance, strategy, operations, growth and capital raising. She has a passion for innovative and technology-led products/services that change the way traditional business models work. Besides CFOWorx, Shelin is also the co-founder for Women For Impact and sits on a couple of advisory and non-for profit boards as well. She works closely with start-ups, scale-ups and other business models to create sustainable growth and revenue models as well as their social purpose and impact.

Jenni Harding
Jenni founded Greatest Good to address the ongoing challenges she witnessed in the for-purpose sector, drawing on her experience providing volunteer and pro-bono/low bono consulting. Greatest Good is a directory, community and marketplace that helps conscious consumers to find and support social enterprises, charities/other not-for-profits and B Corps aligned with their values. It elevates the visibility and broadens the reach of these organisations. Their purpose is to simultaneously grow the sector, while building a community collectively tackling social problems. Jenni is also an experienced director, C-suite executive, entrepreneur, consultant and board advisor - working in the investment industry for 35+ years, combined with 30+ years volunteering in the for-purpose sector.