Impact Gathering: Supporting Women in Impact-Led Business

Join us for the sixth webinar of the Impact Gathering series: Candid Conversations with Purpose-led Women, where we'll explore 'Supporting Women in Impact-Led Business. Hear from female change-makers; Cinnamon Evans, Donna de Zwart, Emma-Kate Rose and Jo Cavanagh. Connect and share during the Q&A session.

About this Event

In this webinar brought to you by Impact Boom and Mumma Got Skills, we are providing a space to connect on real issues pertaining to women in business, specifically impact-led enterprise. We hope to inspire action, provide insights and create a safe space for women to learn and share.

This is not a regular panel. You will have an exclusive opportunity to engage in meaningful discussion through a live Q&A at the end of the session. We want you to shape the conversation to draw out some of the greater 'whys' surrounding impact-led female enterprises.  

Find further details below of the panelists below. 

When: Friday 30th October, 2020

Where: This is a virtual event. We will share the link with registered audience members 24 hours prior to the event.

Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm AEST (Brisbane, Australia)

Cost: This is a 'pay-what-you-like' event, with free tickets available for those who have been affected by COVID. 

Impact Boom is a certified social enterprise and reinvests back into initiatives that create a better world. 

Panelists:

Cinnamon Evans

CEO of CERES Community Environment Park and Chair of SENVIC (Social Enterprise Network Victoria). Cinnamon is an experienced leader in the social enterprise and not-for-profit sectors. Skilled in group facilitation, holding space and public speaking. Cinnamon is particularly passionate about the role of social enterprise within a broader movement for economic localisation and a transition to a regenerative society. 

Donna de Zwart

Chief Executive Officer of Fitted for Work, a not-for-profit dedicated to helping women in Australia experiencing disadvantage to get work, keep work and navigate through working life with success. Over the past 15 years, Fitted for Work has supported almost 40,000 women to build economic security through employment. 

In her previous leadership roles in the commercial, VET and Higher Education sectors, Donna worked on empowering disadvantaged people with diversity and inclusion strategies. Donna believes every woman has the right to employment and a sustainable future. Because when a woman is fitted for work, she is fitted for life. 

Emma-Kate Rose

Emma-Kate is a Program Director at The Next Economy, drawing on over 30 years’ experience working in business, social enterprise development, environmental sustainability, food justice and bottom-up economic development. In addition to her role at The Next Economy, she also leads Food Connect, a social enterprise which has led the way in transforming the local food system, using principles of ecological agriculture to engage ethically with family farms and local communities for over 14 years. Emma-Kate is one of four Fellows of the Yunus Centre for Social Business at Griffith University. Now in her second year as Chair of Queensland Social Enterprise Council, she has helped secure philanthropic and government funding to coordinate a sector-wide strategy to scale impact across Queensland.

Jo Cavanagh

Principal of Jo Cavanagh Consulting. Jo is an experienced Non Executive Director, Board Chair, Chief Executive, and social entrepreneur committed to creating impact for social good. Jo's social innovation mindset for social justice is the key driver of her professional journey. As a successful visionary leader Jo engages with diverse stakeholders to co-design solutions for complex problems. Jo works with government and community agencies as an informed voice committed to improving the lives of many.

Together we translate knowledge and experience into action for outcomes to shape a fairer and more just world. Social justice is always the starting point and the end goal of my activities, and at the core of Jo's entrepreneurial efforts. Every voice is valued in pursuit of a vision for a fair world where people are empowered, and can live ethically and in harmony with each other and the planet.