Mentor List

Michelle Redfern is a woman who like to #GetS*tDone for equality and inclusion.

Michelle is also an AFR 💯 Women of Influence, a Melbourne B3000 Female Entrepreneur of the Year, workplace gender equality consultant, advisor, researcher into #WomenInSport, Womens Leadership expert and Non-Executive Director. She loves what she does and is committed to helping businesses around the world create better workplaces for people of all genders, from all walks of life.

Michelle takes action and influence in 3 ways.

1. Advise: She advises Board and CEO's about how to take action to attract, engage and develop commercially viable, sustainable relationships with women. Whether they are athletes, employees, volunteers, corporate partners, suppliers, clients, members or supporters.

2. Facilitate: Michelle is an action oriented warrior for women’s advancement. She advises, facilitate & mentor women how to navigate a system that is not yet fixed.

3. Speak: She is not just a talking head. She takes action by designing and delivering really smashing events that engage the audience. She’d provided this service for AFL clubs, ASX listed & privately held companies, Universities & of course my own Professional Women’s Network that has more than 3600 female members and now, a co-host of A Career that Soars! an online community for ambitious women who want their best career and best life.

WHAT ELSE?

* Michelle is a co-founder of social enterprise, CDW (Culturally Diverse Women & Workforce)

* Michelle is a founder of Womens network “Women Who Get It”

* Michelle is a independent member of the Steering Committee for Wayfinder - Women in Supply Chain & Logistics initiative

As Managing Director, Steven Worrall is responsible for Microsoft’s overall business in Australia. He ensures the company meets the needs of its customers and the more than 11,000 partners and independent software vendors that sell or build on the Microsoft platform.

Steven joined Microsoft in March 2014 as Director, Enterprise and Partner Group, responsible for driving business growth and building strong customer and partner relationships in the Australian Commercial and Public Sector markets. In this role, Steven worked with organisations to drive innovation and business improvement through the application of technology in many areas, including productivity solutions, mobility and cloud services.

Previously Steven worked for IBM for 22 years and held a number of marketing, sales and general management roles in the services, software and financing segments of the organisation. Most recently, he led IBM’s software business in Asia Pacific region where he built organisational capability in diverse markets across the region and drove the business towards more cloud delivered services.

Steven holds an Honours degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master’s in Business Administration. He is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and lives in Sydney with his wife and three children.

Melissa Lewis is the secret sauce behind credible female business women. Her fascination began as a little girl when she spent many hours in her grandfather’s couture boutique watching him style high-end clientele. She saw the emergence of confident women glowing from the inside out.An entrepreneur in retail, commercial property and the corporate world, Melissa, aged just 18, worked full time while studying at night (BA Business - Property, RMIT) 22 years later she mentors driven talented women, working in male- dominated environments, commercialise their talents for greater impact and career advancement. It’s about bridging the gap between what they know and what they’re known for.

Dr Demartini is considered one of the world's leading authorities on human behaviour and personal development. He is the founder of the Demartini Institute, a private research and education organisation with a curriculum of over 72 different courses covering multiple aspects of human development.

His trademarked methodologies, the Demartini Method and the Demartini Value Determination, are the culmination of 44 years of cross-disciplinary research and study. His work has been  incorporated into  human development industries across the world.

Dr Demartini travels 360 days a year to countries all over the globe,  sharing his research and findings in all markets and sectors. He is the author of 40 books published in over 29 different languages. He has produced over 60 CDs and DVDs covering subjects such as development in relationships, wealth, education and business. Each program is designed to assist people to activate leadership and empower themselves in all seven areas of their lives: Financial, physical, mental, vocational, spiritual, family and social.

For over 20 years, Darrell Hardidge has specialised in supporting high-performing businesses with the strategy and implementation of their customer experience and team culture. He has worked with billion-dollar companies down to the privately-owned operations. Darrell has the ability to engage a diverse range of teams, from board level to the front line, ensuring everyone is on the same page.

His team workshops are highly engaging and effective in causing permanent change and improvement. His company has designed the very powerful metric of client appreciation which sets a business beyond the reaches of their competition who mainly measure client satisfaction with flawed and outdated systems. Darrell's profound knowledge of what creates a market-leading service culture has been delivered to thousands of people and has inspired the behavioural change in many winning teams.

A published author, Darrell’s passion for service excellence sets him apart and his experience based upon his own company’s IP enables him to authentically engage and connect with any level of an organisation.

Richard Elstone is a Partner with boutique executive search firm Foley Durham. He has more than 20 years' experience acting as a trusted advisor to boards CEOs and their executive teams in their search for hiring the very best talent across ASX listed, Private Equity backed and Private companies across Australia. Through his experience, Richard has reviewed and assessed hundreds and thousands of resumes, conducted thousands of interviews and has successfully appointed countless executives across the country. His new initiative, Executive Interview Coaching distils this knowledge into a series of confidential one-on-one sessions designed to give you the edge in your executive job search

Tom Griffith co-founded Emma & Tom’s in 2004 with his childhood friend Emma Welsh. Both share a passion for healthy choices, active life and everyday, balanced nutrition and saw a need for an Australian healthy, great tasting snack and juice alternative to sugary, preservative-riddled, over-processed options out there already.

Based on the simple and powerful philosophy ‘Look After Yourself’, Emma & Tom’s has grown to become one of Australia’s greatest startup business success stories and an internationally recognised brand. Boasting a range of whole fruit, naturally good for you products now available in over 5000 retail outlets nationwide, the business has expanded distribution to global markets and new consumer categories and continues to deliver their wholesome brand promise to thousands of people every day.

Tom’s background includes a diverse portfolio of business, finance, investment banking and innovation roles within Australia and internationally. Tom also holds a Bachelor of Commerce from The University of Melbourne, is a Chartered Accountant and has a Fellowship of Finance.

“We believe people are happier when they are healthier. We believe if you eat well, you stay well. We help people look after themselves.”

Tom is regularly sought after as a speaker on entrepreneurship, the business of startups, building brand and the secret to successful partnerships. Tom is also a passionate and outstanding community leader who contributes many pro bono hours to local social justice initiatives, sits on the board of multiple charity organisations and Emma & Tom’s contributes $100,000 annually to local Not For Profit organisations who seek to alleviate poverty, boost economic empowerment, and initiate education and health projects Australia-wide. Tom also co-founded The Unite Project with the Cotton On Group whose mission is to fight youth homelessness across Australia.

"Brent Valle is a born speaker, entrepreneur, passionate surfer, snowboarder and all round adventurer known for pushing boundaries and building big business!

He is a multi award award winning business person who has been recognised by CRN for growing Australia’s fastest growing tech company in 2013 (2nd 2014, 9th 2015, 10th 2016 and All Star Category in 2017), and the countries 5th fastest growing company across all industries in the BRW Fast 100 2015.

He was the co-founder of award winning technology company NGage Technology with close friend Jarrod Bloomfield. The team grew the company from $0 - $27 Million in just 5 short years and it continues to be a key leader in the IT space.

In early 2017, Brent decided to parts ways with NGage Technology to follow his passions of assisting, inspiring and working with others and founded The Future Phase. Fortunately for Brent, within weeks after coming to the realisation that he wanted to follow his passions, an ASX tech-company expressed interest in NGage and within 6 months the business was sold in a multi-million dollar deal.

The Future Phase is a cause that Brent hopes to use his visionary business acumen, unbridled enthusiasm and love for adventure to inspire others to achieve their own best selves, make an impact on a grander scale and leave the world a better place.

It is a cause that facilitates growth, transformation and adventure of busy individuals, entrepreneurs and corporations to exceed themselves above and beyond. He has developed the first of it's kind leadership program called Future X - The Worlds First Leadership and Mentoring Program Where Business Meets Adventure which is designed for medium to large enterprise corporates, and is also growing a community of entrepreneurs and business owners that want to take on the world called the GameChangers with an exciting product being launched in the next month.

Since founding The Future Phase in early 2017, Brent continues to seek out more opportunities and recently acquired Bells Surf Wax™, a business he is extremely passionate about. Since acquiring in September 2017, Brent has since turned the business around, something he has a knack in doing and has gone onto successfully launch with amazing success at the 2018 Rip Curl Pro at Bells Beach.

He is often referred to as courageous and a go-getter with limitless determination by his peers and continues to inspire and empower them to push through their boundaries both in life and business. But also knows where his strengths lie, a real entrepreneur and business dude, passionate surfer, snowboarder and adventurer and the thing he takes most pride in is being an awesome Dad to his 2 kids.

Brent is extremely passionate about sharing his personal and business journey to inspire others to live a happy, healthy, successful and purposeful life with strong relationships. A born speaker, Brent has an amazing ability to keep his audience members engaged, allowing them to walk away inspired, motivated and having learnt something new. His personal story is really quite phenomenal and counts his blessings every day because he realises just how lucky he is to be here, even though there were shocking and traumatic circumstances involved.

He is determined to give back to the planet and to youth and to date has contributed over $50,000 across 4 charities and has personally volunteered over 40 hours of work. He is a proud member of 1% For The Planet.

Brent Valle is a force of nature with a passion for life and making the world a better place in every way he can. As a highly successful entrepreneur, rugged outdoor sportsman and a true humanitarian, he’s not content to just forge his own business and life successes, he earnestly works to bring others along for the ride. And aims to encourage you to join him."

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Jamie Pride is a serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist & author on a mission to make entrepreneurs, executives and enterprises failure proof.

As an entrepreneur, Jamie sold his first startup, Velteo, to New York–based System Integrator Bluewolf, and has founded over six technology startups. As an investor, he has raised more than $16 million in funding for startups via private and public markets, including completing an IPO on the Australian Stock Exchange in 2015. He has more than 20 years’ experience with international technology and digital media organisations, including leading realestate.com.au and senior positions with Deloitte Digital, salesforce.com, Red Hat, Veritas, and Cisco Systems.

Jamie is also a sought-after public speaker and regularly comments on building resilience, overcoming failure, how to be successful at startups & small business, disruptive innovation and design thinking. He is the Managing Partner at Phi Digital Ventures, an early-stage, social impact venture fund that seeks to invest in Australian companies looking to change the world. He is also the co-founder of The Founder Lab, an educational institution for entrepreneurs that seeks to build and support better founders. Jamie is the author of Unicorn Tears: Why Startups Fail & How To Avoid It - published by Wiley, February 2018