Div Pillay

Div Pillay is an experienced and respected diversity and inclusion practitioner, leader, researcher and advocate, for over 25 years. Her speciality focus is on gender, race and cultural inclusion. Her work is backed by her experience of living under racially segregated apartheid laws in South Africa, before migrating to Australia; and her behavioural psychology background. Div leads award winning management consultancy MindTribes and social enterprise Culturally Diverse Women.

Div’s work on gender intersectionality is published as guidance material by The Commission for Gender Equality in the Public Sector and; she is well regarded by the Victorian Multicultural Commission and CPSU for her research on Women of Colour career mobility and safety. Div is also the Chair of the D&I Committee at the American Chamber of Commerce, Australia; is a Board Director at VicHealth and is named as one of the 100 Women of Influence, by the Australian Financial Review. She has contributed her voice for others in the media, appearing on SBS, ABC News, Sydney Morning Herald, Herald Sun and Women’s Agenda. Further amplifying voices often missing, she co-hosts the popular podcast, Business in Colour.