Strong Women, Strong Regions: A 10-Week Program for Women in Business & Professions

Are you ready to grow your business, develop your professional skills or strengthen your community impact? Strong Women, Strong Regions is a supportive 10-week program designed to empower you to lead with confidence, clarity and creativity.

Join other like-minded regional women as we explore practical skills, inspiring ideas and real strategies to build a career and life that aligns with your vision and values. Each week you’ll connect, learn and grow through workshops covering topics including:

August 29: Leveraging Your Life — Identify your unique strengths and story to shape your business or career path.
September 5: Let’s Get Creative — Unlock fresh ideas, innovation and problem-solving.
September 12: Habit Overhaul — Build daily habits that align with your goals and boost your productivity.
September 19: Vision & Mission — Define or refine your ‘why’ to guide your direction and decisions.
September 26: Marketing & Socials — Practical tools to promote yourself and your business with confidence.
October 17: Alignment & Connections — Find the right partnerships and align your work with your values.
October 24: Money Money Money — Get comfortable with pricing, profit and financial wellbeing.
October 31: Inclusive Leadership — Lead authentically and inclusively.
November 7: Wellbeing & The Blur — Manage stress and balance life when work and home overlap.
November 14: Business Panel — Hear real stories and insights from inspiring rural women in business.

This program is about connection, practical skills and real results — so you can strengthen your business, lead with purpose and help your region thrive.

Who should attend?
Rural women at any stage of business or professional life — whether you’re starting out, growing an idea, or ready to level up.

Where: Mount Barker Community Centre, 3 Dumas Street
When: Weekly sessions, August 29 – November 14 (2 week break for October school holidays)
Cost: Free!

Our facilitator, Rachel Titley is a fourth-generation farmer from Sherlock in the Murray Mallee. Now working off-farm as a consultant, speaker, and facilitator, the heart of Rachel’s work lies in purposeful leadership and wellbeing, particularly within rural and regional settings.

Rachel is the founder of SheFarmer, a platform designed to empower ambitious rural women to ‘build and scale business, life and the blur in-between’ through evidence-based business coaching, high-impact workshops, strategic communication, and real-world resilience tools. SheFarmer hosts monthly ‘Sisterhood’ gatherings in Adelaide and proudly anchors its community work in the annual United Nations ‘International Day of Rural Women (Adelaide)’ on the second Friday in October, an event Rachel curates and manages, now recognised as South Australia’s largest celebration of its kind.

Rachel’s expertise spans community activation, strategic narrative development, and high-level stakeholder engagement across Australia's agricultural, regional, and policymaking sectors. She is passionate about reframing the rural experience to drive systemic change and foster stronger, healthier, and more connected communities.

Rachel is a:

· 2025 Fearless Innovator Award Finalist

· 2025 Telstra Best of Business Awards Finalist (Accelerating Women & Building Communities)

· 2025 Joy Noble Medal Nominee (SA & NT Volunteer of the Year)

· 2025 Champion Small Business Award Finalist (Business Coach)

· 2023–2025 Rural Community Leader (SA) Australian Farmer of the Year Awards

Through every facet of her work, Rachel champions integrity, innovation, and the transformative power of collective leadership and to shaping a thriving, equitable, and resilient future for rural and regional people.

This is a Connecting Communities Event sponsored by the Department of Primary Industries and Regions under the Family and Business Support Program as part of the State Government’s $73 million Drought Support Package.