Breakthrough Podcast

Div Pillay is the CEO of MindTribes and Co-Founder of, social enterprise, Culturally Diverse Women [CDW]. With a background in behavioural economics, psychology, and qualitative data research, she is an expert in gender, race and cultural inclusion.

MindTribes offers a unique proposition – behaviourally solving for exclusion, creating an impact on the individual (voice & value) and organisation (brand & business metrics). As part of its social impact, MindTribes has created Culturally Diverse Women to ensure inclusion at the intersection of gender, culture, and age (career-life stages).

Prior to founding MindTribes in 2012, Div spent 14 years in People & Culture roles working across Australia, Asia and South Africa. Div was named as one of the 100 Women of Influence, 2018 (AFR & Qantas), was a past Board Director at STREAT, is a current Board Director at VicHealth, and is the National Chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee, American Chamber of Commerce.

Div is listed in 2021, as one of two Australians in a list of the 25 Global Influencers by the AACSB International, the world’s largest global business education alliance. She is committed to working with businesses to co-create systemic and sustainable change so that their workforces reflect the communities and customers they serve, especially at decision making levels.

In addition to her corporate background, Div is an engaging and authentic presenter, and powerful storyteller. A trailblazer for culturally and linguistic diverse peoples, Div draws upon her lived experiences and weaves in elements of education on bias through curated scenarios, encouraging audience members to reflect and consider actual steps that can be taken to combat bias.

Oluwayemi "Yemi" Adenuga is a Nigerian-Irish politician, community organizer and advocate for social justice initiatives. In May 2019, she became the first elected black female public representative in Ireland when she was elected to the Meath County Council. In addition, she is a high-impact keynote speaker, a People and Leadership Development Strategist and a DE&I Consultant.

Global Motivational TED Speaker 🔴| Transforming Leadership | CEO Mindset | Business Intelligence Coach | Woman of the Yr WIF | Finalist STEM Mentor 23 | Ex-Lieutenant | LeanIn Ireland CoFounder |

Inspire Resilience With over twenty years in the Reserve Defence Forces, Breda’s military training and coaching expertise culminates in a style that reignites, illuminates, empowers and resets focus. She coaches individuals, and small and large groups, from a wide range of backgrounds, from the start up community and small business owners, right through to career corporates in large multinationals. She is extremely passionate about the nature of her work and is determined to ensure an even playing field exists for everyone to take control of their own career path. As a Transformational Change specialist in Financial Services for almost 20 years, Breda has driven, embedded and overseen extensive change programmes across a number of large financial institutions in Ireland and the UK. She specialises in Technical, Innovative and Cultural change. Helping individuals and corporates to process and manage through change is second nature to this lady. Additionally Breda co-founded the Lean-In Ireland community and has co-chaired the organisation since its launch in 2017. Her passion for equality leads her to become involved with many companies, communities and networks, and she is often booked as keynote speaker to launch diversity programmes and to MC or facilitate diversity events and conferences. More recently, Breda has been in high demand for virtual events, with many of her talks and videos receiving high levels of click-rates. https://www.bredamccague.com/

Today's podcast is with the fabulous Fiona Buckley. Fiona is a Tedx Speaker, a Multi Award Winning International Key Note Speaker, Founder and CEO of She Speaks Agency, Leadership Facilitator, Empowerment & Executive Coach, Thought Leader & Work Behaviourist and Women in Business Advocate

Fiona has been a great friend, colleague and supporter from the moment I met her and generously connects women to each other and to opportunities. She lives her life with passion, curiosity and impact. You can follow her on https://lnkd.in/e-QCN3z6 and learn more about her Female Speaking Agency SheSpeaks at https://www.shespeaks.com/.

Jig is the Chief Talent and Culture officer for Aviva group. He has previously held senior Talent roles in the LSEG, Bloomberg and Macquarie.

Belinda Clark, AO, is a leader in the Australian sports industry and has recently turned attention to starting a new venture to support the development of leadership capability and confidence in young girls. Clark was an elite cricketer who captained the Australian Team from 1994-2005, with a win ratio of 80% over more than a decade and the first player male or female to score a double century in a One Day International Match. She was also CEO of Women’s Cricket Australia and steered the organisation through an integration with Cricket Australia. In 2000, she received an AM for services to cricket and to the promotion and development of the game for women and girls and an AO in 2018 Belinda brought an evidence-based mindset to the game, after initially training as a physiotherapist, integrating science with high-performance sport. She excels at strategy and its implementation and is a natural builder of teams and brands. In her previous role as Executive General Manager, Community Cricket at Cricket Australia, she worked with a team across Australia to transform community cricket through innovative solutions based on community needs including providing a platform for the growth of junior cricket and girl’s competition. And she continues to be an advocate for females in sport at all levels. Belinda was inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame, the Sport Australia Hall of Fame, the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame, the NSW Sports Hall of Fame and Hunter Region Sports Hall of Fame.In 2019, the Australian Financial Review Top 100 Women of Influence Awards recognised Belinda as the winner of the Arts, Culture and Sport category.

Dr. Jill Walker is an executive psychologist who coaches CEOs, successful business founders and high net worth individuals – people who have achieved a lot of outer success, but want more balance, joy or fulfilment. She also does keynote speaking on topics that inspire and help people to live and work at their best, like her very popular 'Better not busier' talk.

Education is something that I have always been extremely passionate about and I knew from a very young age that I wanted to be involved in developing people and helping them grow. Technology is an incredible enabler and, as it continues to evolve, more people are harnessing the power thereof.TTRO is an organization of passionate and talented individuals who design and develop innovative learning solutions to upskill and empower people for the now and for the future. We believe in driving change through next generation learning by combining immersive technologies and learning methodologies to deliver relevant competencies that add value to your organization and your people.We are the digital education revolution. We are the class rebel. We are The Training Room Online.

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Mairead has twenty years of experience within Ireland’s pensions industry having worked for Mercer and Towers Watson before joining AON. She is currently leading AON’s pensions and investment businesses in Ireland. Mairead has a strong track record of business leadership and change management. She holds a Bachelor of Actuarial and Financial Studies from UCD.