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Avril Henry
Australian Whos Who of Women 2009, 2010 and 2011
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Wednesday May 15 2013
BUSINESS
Laurel Papworth
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Named in 2012 by Forbes magazine in the Top 50 Social Media Influencers globally, and Marketing Magazine named her Head of Industry, Social Media
Pete Williams
The thinking womans Brad Pitt
Paul Bennett
National Managing Director of SapientNitro Australia, creators of the Best Job in the World Campaign
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Event Schedule
8am Registration 9am MC Brett Macdonald 9.10am Opening address Anthony Schinck CEO City of Ballarat
Avril is a widely acclaimed keynote speaker, consultant, business and career coach, mentor and author, who is passionate about diversity, developing collaborative leaders and positive workplaces. Avril is a Fellow of CPA Australia, a Senior Associate of the Australian Institute of Banking & Finance, an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and Australian Human Resources Institute.
the Telstra Businesswoman of the Year. In 2006, Avril won the prestigious Lifetime Achievement in HR Award at the Australian Human Resources Awards, and has been a finalist for Best HR Director. Avril is regularly featured on radio and TV, and contributes articles to several industry publications and newspapers. For 2 years she had a weekly radio program with the ABC as their resident expert on workplace relations and HR, which was broadcast to 16 countries in Asia. She is the author and co-author of several books on leadership and the different generations at work, and in 2010 released her first childrens book. Her latest book, Leadership Revelations II How Australians Lead in Crises was released in May 2012, and in December it topped the Australian Financial Review BOSS magazines best brain food books of 2012.
Avril Henry
9.30am
In 2012 Avril received the Coaching Leadership Award at the Global HR Excellence Awards in Mumbai, India. In April she was invited to attend a global Leadership Best Practices program at Harvard Business School in the USA, and was requested by her class mates to speak at the closing dinner. She has been honoured in the Australian Whos Who of Women for the past 4 years, as an inspiring businesswoman, and has been nominated 7 times for
Peter Williams
Peter is a recognised thought leader and practitioner in Innovation with a particular focus on digital innovation. Although his professional training was as a Chartered Accountant Peter started working with internet technologies in 1993 while working in the UK and on his return to Australia in 1996 founded an eBusiness Consulting group within Deloitte Australia. Since that time Peter was the CEO of the Eclipse Group, a Deloitte subsidiary that was one of Australias largest web and mobile development firms, and then founded Deloitte Digital, a business pioneering the delivery of professional services online. Peter has been the Chairman of Deloittes Innovation Council since 2004 and been involved in numerous innovation projects for Deloitte and clients over the course of his career. Peter is a sought after speaker and media commentator both locally and internationally and has worked with boards and senior executives of many companies helping
them understand and adapt to the rapidly changing digital environment. Peter is the obvious person to lead the newly formed Australian Chapter of Centre for the Edge, a Silicon Valley Applied Research Centre chaired by two technology luminaries John Hagel III and John Seely Brown with a mission to identify and explore emerging opportunities related to big shifts that arent yet on the senior management agenda, but ought to be. While it is focused on long-term trends and opportunities, it is equally focused on implications for near-term action, the day-to-day environment of executives. Peter is an Adjunct Professor at RMIT and a board member of Circus Oz.
11.30am
12pm Panel of regional business innovators facilitated by Peter Williams Bill May Unigrain Smeaton Rod Kilborn Ballarat Bearings Lyndsay Sharp Jack Rabbit Vineyard Kay Jackson Simplex Insurance
Laurel has been teaching online community management at the University of Sydney, Australian Film and TV School, Metro Film School and she has been managing virtual communities since 1989. In the last few months Laurel has appeared on Finance Quarter, Lateline, 7:30 Report, Midday Report ABC, and in the Australian Financial Review,
4pm Paul Bennett SapientNitro Australia Story of The Best Job in the World Campaign
5pm Thank you and close 5.15pm Drinks and Social Networking The Lindsay Room 5.30pm Master Class with Laurel Papworth The Pepperberry Room (pre-bookings only)