UNBiased

This week’s guest on UNBiased is Jahin Tanvir, CEO of the Australian School of Entrepreneurship, 3-time TEDx speaker, board director, media personality, and angel investor who was named in the 2022 list of the 40 under 40 Most Influential Asian-Australians, at the age of 21. 

Jahin shares his personal journey and professional insights as an award-winning advocate for young people, and diversity and inclusion. 

It’s impossible not to be inspired by Jahin’s drive and optimism to effect change. Hope you enjoy. Would love to hear your thoughts! 

6 months since moving and it’s time to lay all the questions on the table as I start to dig deeper into labels, identity, and how we shift the needle on D, E, and I when what it means can differ so much between groups, organisations and countries. 

To those who work in and/or maintain their commitment to DEI, do you still get affected by your own biases? 

At a time when DEI fatigue has set in and budgets are getting slashed, does DEI need a rebrand? 

I’m joined this week by Junie Baptiste Poitevien. Junie is the Founder & CEO of Propel Innovations, a boutique for UX  research and inclusive design, tapping into overlooked niche markets for consumer brand businesses to give them a competitive edge. Junie is a co-Author of Undefeated, Junie is also host of the podcast Uncover Untapped Markets, and is training for her third Ironman70.3.  

Junie has broken into the tech industry as a non-tech by tapping into her entrepreneurial spirit to start seeing better representation in tech and with a wild goal to remove biases in the design of products and technology.  

During our conversation Junie shares both her personal story and the stories of those around her that drive her to push businesses to operate in a more inclusive way and reach untapped markets to drive up their commercial success at the same time. 

Tune in this week to hear the dynamic Pernilla Nordstrom share her story of high achievement, being driven by a mix of passion, dedication and FOMO (fear of missing out), only to lead to burnout. What followed was Pernilla learning in her forties, that she has ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder). 

 Pernilla joins a growing number of adult women getting diagnosed with ADHD, and amidst some degree of controversy around this development it was great to hear some of her firsthand experiences and the importance to Pernilla of being able to identify a diagnosis and put the tools to manage it in place. 

 She has made it her mission to always walk her own way and talk about her story and diagnosis to address misunderstandings around ADHD in women as well as hopefully remove bias around what it means to live with ADHD and other types of neurodiversity in the workplace.  

Tune in this week to hear my conversation with Vividhata Founder, and Physicist, Arti Agrawal to hear about her journey to combine her 2 core passions of science and social justice as an Indian woman and proud member of the global LGBTQIA+ community. 

As well as hearing Arti's story navigating academia and science as an Indian, lesbian woman, we reflect on just how far we’ve come in terms of addressing intersectionality compared to when Arti was starting out her scientific career, and the importance of having allies to move the needle on inclusion.  

I encourage you all to listen and to follow Arti’s social enterprise, Vividhata, where Arti is seeking to inject innovation into the DEI space whilst giving back to community. 

https://vividhata.co/

Founder, D&I practitioner and podcast host Lisa Mulligan joins me on UNBiased this week. 

Lisa is the Founder and Director of The Culture Ministry. It has been her dream to establish a pragmatic and experienced business offering D&I consultancy and support services that are provided by experienced people who have actually delivered D&I work within organisations across Asia. 

Not only has she realised this dream, but Lisa has been instrumental in building communities of DEI professionals across Asia and is one of the first in the region to develop a diversity and inclusion salary survey within Asia. 

Find out more about Lisa, her community, and offerings here: https://www.thecultureministry.com/

Such a pleasure to chat with Melbourne-based coach, freelance general counsel, DEI consultant, speaker and author, @Niti Nadarajah on the latest episode of UNBiased podcast. 

Niti advocates for a range of issues including gender and racial equity, and through her business, Coaching by Niti, helps to empower women who are feeling stuck in their careers to get unstuck by connecting them to their inner compass.  

Niti was recognised as a LinkedIn Top Voice (Gender Equity) in 2022 and is also a certified Master NLP practitioner, Coach and Gender Equality Expert with Grace Papers, DEI practitioner on the NASA Astrophysics IDEA practitioner database, legal adviser to, and consultant with, The Creative Co-operative, an angel investor at Nobody Studios, a founding member and DEI Ambassador at Human Leaders, and was recently awarded Mentor of the Year Future Women. Niti also provides support to women who’ve suffered miscarriage as a Peer Support Companion at The Pink Elephants Support Network and Community Partner for White Ribbon (Australia) and mum to two. 

We chat inclusive leadership, authenticity and “getting out of your head and into your body and feeling all the feels”. 

I hope you enjoy. 

My guest today is someone who truly brings her absolute whole self to everything she does, I'm joined by Krystle McGilvery.

Krystle is an award-winning Founder of Mind Over Money, a finance training and education consultancy, she is a Behavioural Finance specialist, Podcaster, Mentor, and Coach. Krystle combines finance and psychology to improve financial decision-making, confidence, and wellbeing. She has worked with the likes of Equifax, Moonpig, and AllBright. Krystle comes to us from the UK and she’s appeared on ITV, been featured in several papers such as the Telegraph, on Refinery29, and on BBC Radio. Krystle is also the Board Director of several charities, a Chartered Accountant, and Mental Health First Aider.

Krystle shares openly about her journey to entrepreneurship success as a neuro-divergent, black woman, and how she leverages her differences to help other "others" reach a state of financial wellbeing.

Welcoming back my second repeat guest on UNBiased, Rohan Wickremesinghe. Rohan joined me as my very first guest recording from our closet in Canberra, Australia.

As well as holding the coveted position of being my life partner and Husband, Rohan spent close to 2 decades working with huge players in the Banking, Insurance and Consumer industries around the world managing technology projects and technology risk.

Hear his perspectives on the Big Move to Singapore; being the first and only in his organisation to take 3 months' parental leave as a Dad; leaving to set up his own company, and how he lives in to his values every day at work.