How to Turn Your Idea Into a Business

Ready to turn your spark of an idea into a thriving side hustle? 

Join our hands-on, beginner-friendly virtual workshop created exclusively for South Asian women ready to take the first step. We'll share personalised guidance, real-world tools, and a supportive space to build something that's truly your own. No fluff. Just practical help to bring your vision to life!


By the end of this session, you will:

• Hold your own space, to clarify and articulate your business idea in a concise, compelling way

• Receive and give constructive peer feedback using a structured framework

• Identify your riskiest assumption and design a simple way to test your business idea

• Strengthen your confidence through collaborative learning and shared experience

• Build connections and accountability with other aspiring South Asian women entrepreneurs

Meet your facilitator:

Aruna Venkatachalam is a changemaker and design thinker with 15+ years experience in social impact, entrepreneurship and leadership. Aruna has lived and worked across Australia (including First Nations Australia), Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, the Philippines and India, where she led best-practice community initiatives and co-founded an environmental advocacy startup. As the founder of her own social impact consultancy, alongside her role as Head of Partnerships at Australian South Asian Centre, Aruna's focus is supporting Founders of Colour to thrive. Self-determination, cultural pride and strengths-based-approaches sit at the heart of her work. Aruna has co-designed world-leading entrepreneurial programs and facilitated, coached and supported hundreds of aspiring entrepreneurs across Australia and internationally, including youth, leaders and community organisations. Aruna was an Australian recipient of 2024's Asia Society Game Changer Award in Education and Research and has received recognition from the Rotary Foundation for her impactful work. She has also served on the Boards of Bendigo Bank and CQUniversity.

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This program is supported by the Victorian Government through Business Victoria.