Your Leadership Voice: Women in Focus

The Panel Pledge is a national initiative seeking to address this imbalance for women in public and professional forums. Another gender equity initiative is the Male Champions of Change, where prominent Australian leaders have committed to increasing women's visibility and accelerating their professional advancement.

Your Leadership Voice: Women in Focus reflects this national priority. As a highly interactive, practical program, it will enable and elevate a diverse group of businesswomen and female leaders with the tools, techniques, support and self-confidence they need to step up and stand out.

"This learning experience has without doubt been the most valuable of my professional career. The impact for me has been in the timing, intensity and learning through the lens of a women’s perspective in business and as a leader. The practical skills that I have learned and the alumni network I now have access to, have been transformational in helping me to guide my business into a confident and controlled growth phase.

This course has delivered the largest step change in my thinking as a woman entrepreneur. My leadership voice has never been as clear, nor as confident as it is now."

Michelle Gallaher, Co-Founder and Creative Director, The Social Science / STEMM Aus / SkinLife Pty Ltd
2017 Telstra Victorian Business Woman of the Year & 2017 Telstra Victorian Entrepreneur Award

It’s estimated that women make up only 14% of panels at conferences, public forums and media events - so what’s being done to boost representation and get more women into leadership roles?

Listen to ABC Radio RN interview of Michelle Gallaher and Sharon Longridge, Co-Director, Your Leadership Voice, Monash University with Presenter Richard Aedy.