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Renee has spent her life immersed in technology, solving problems and building communities and launched Connected Code 12 months ago to support more girls through the education experience of learning code.

With the program now supporting 1500 girls in 8 regions across Australia, Renee has been focused on making technology education more accessible and approachable to unlock more potential, with human centred solutions.

With a strong focus on advancement of women and girls in technology, Renee is unlocking creativity to cultivate curiosity for change.

"Interaction is a form of communication. Communication (usually) starts with a word. Words trigger emotions. Emotions trigger actions."

Yifat and Lee are the co-founders of Punct, a UX design agency born out of a need for businesses to hone in on the customer experience through messaging and was developed to leverage the power of words to generate desired actions, behaviours and experiences out of every customer interaction. 

Through communicating with human instinct to listen, respond and connect, you can deliver the right words, at the right time, for the desired outcome.

But when is that right time to engage UX in your strategy.... when it's taking too long to communicate your message, your marketing leads are getting stuck in the funnel and not converting or your support tickets are an endless cycle of red flags.

This Podcast is a practical learning experience to support you in being successful.

Lisa Pagotto is an entrepreneur, a visionary, a change maker and a leader in the travel industry and is extremely passionate about what she does. 

Crooked Compass is a business that was launched 8 years ago, with her consistent interests in the lesser known. This stemmed from her adventurous spirit when she left school and travelled to places like Tunisia, Africa and Turkey while the rest of her peers were off backpacking to the UK.

By stimulating her curiosity she designed the company to support travellers in getting into the unknown parts of the country and creating unique experiences.

But as we all know, the travel industry is a very different landscape in 2021 and Lisa and the team at Crooked Compass have consistently pivoted, navigated and moved with the motions and limitations of travel to build out a successful business with a long term view.

Lisa shares so many key steps in her learning experience, that can apply to any business owner working through a changing landscape and is a big advocate for taking time out of your business to recalibrate and reinvigorate your spirit.

Shai Zarivatch is the Trade Commissioner for the Israel Trade and Economic Commission in Australia with a strong focus on driving trade and economic development opportunities between Australia and Israel forward and integrated into the world economy.

Collaboration and partnerships between Australian and Israeli companies is critical to the mission and mandate of the Commission in Australia to share knowledge, evolve trade relationships and activate technology and innovation capabilities. This activation of capabilities can be seen across Fintech, Medical and Health care, Artificial intelligence, Big Data, Agri tech and many more areas as we continue to live in a digital world.

Rosemary grew up in the UK and as a child travelled the world as her father was a hotel designer, which gave her a strong sense of adventure and opened opportunities to volunteer all over the world.

With the freedom to explore different career opportunities, Rosemary landed in the Not for Profit space to lead School's Plus to give every child the opportunity to succeed at school and create a level playing field.

Through the funding from School's Plus donors, it enables them to bring to life projects in over 1000 schools in some of the most disadvantaged areas across Australia.

Rosemary has seen the challenges of schools over the last 18 months not only with the blending of physical and digital education, but the on going impact of wellbeing, physically and mentally on students, teachers and school leaders. With a strong focus now on how they support the leaders with their well-being to ensure that this impact flows through the entire school system.

Rosemary is an authentic leader, on a mission to enable fun whilst creating learning experiences for the future prosperity of the Australian community 

Sean is a passionate, solutions driven entrepreneur who curated his business Banksia Consulting Group in August 2020 with the name Banksia derived from the knowing that Banksias grow in any condition, show signs of resilience and flowered twice a year reflecting renewal. 

Banksia is focused on supporting a transformation of the Aged Care Sector with technology solutions. 

By making the invisible, visible through person centred care and taking the institutionalised approach out of aged care.

Francesca is a woman who feels like she is changing and evolving every decade, but in the essence of who she is, is an entrepreneur and an activist who showcases entrepreneurs and change makers.

She launched Social Global Grind as a complete accident after being asked by a beauty company to support their celebrity clients to navigate their brand presence through Twitter and has gone on to build this into a business that supports small businesses through their social media strategy and presence in curating and teaching.

In this TradeSquare Learning Square episode Francesca shares tips and strategies to building an authentic brand, with original content, creating a voice for social justice to connect in a meaningful way through the essence of who you are.

As an entrepreneur and business owner, Jack founded The Entourage out of frustration and dissatisfaction of having no where to go and learn beyond the walls of a University or TAFE. He embarked on creating the The Entourage, an organisation for entrepreneurs and business owners with elite business coaching, training & community. 

When Jack studied some of the worlds most recognised brands like Apple, Facebook and Mercedes Benz he recognised that their success had amplified through their DNA and knowing exactly who they were as a company. 

Jack shares some of the stages to developing your brand DNA through three core stages and some of the prevalent misconceptions of creating growth and scale in an organisation.

As a self confessed business junkie, Fiona has owned and operated many of her own businesses over the last 25 years, recently sold a tech start up, activated Tech Ready Women and the Remarkables tech accelerator at the University of Technology Sydney. And loves the ability of businesses to ideate, to find a problem, and curate a solution.

Over the last 18 months, the University has faced many challenges particularly in supporting Australian corporate organisations to upskill and reskill for the Future of Work through AI, Data Literacy and the Layers of technology that drives the change for which that have created many dynamic solutions for.

Fiona has a strong call for action for people and organisations to embrace a true and meaningful learning and development and life long learning culture through curiosity, learning pathways, peer to peer learning, knowledge sharing and rewarding and recognising these across the organisation.

Zahrina Robertson is a leading personal brand photographer and videographer who encapsulates creativity, artist talent and a business mindset to support people and organisations create impact with their brand imagery and photography.

In this TradeSquare LearningSquare episode Zahrina shares key tips to being visible and authentic through brand story telling presented in beautiful photos and video content that amplify the growth of your brand. By first identifying a holistic view of what problems your business is trying to solve and then creating meaningful connectivity.

#beyourbrand

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