Didier Elzinga is the CEO and co-founder of Culture Amp – the world’s leading employee experience platform. Culture Amp revolutionizes how over 25 million employees across more than 6,500 companies create a better world of work. Didier is on a mission to create a better world of work, believing that the most successful business leaders put their culture first. Culture Amp was named one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company in 2023. Culture Amp was also recognised as one of Forbes’ Cloud 100 top private companies globally for the two years running.

Didier was recognised on Comparably’s 2020 Best CEOs for Women list (top 10 small-mid sized firms), and alongside his co-founders as Best Leadership Team (top 20 small-mid sized firms). He was also a finalist in the 2019 EY Entrepreneur of the Year Awards, and winner of the Disruptor category. Before starting Culture Amp, Didier was the CEO of Rising Sun Pictures where he oversaw the production of visual effects for popular films such as Lord of the Rings and the Harry Potter franchise.

Additionally, he was the founder of Rising Sun Research (winner of a Technical Academy Award). Didier is a sought-after speaker in the areas of culture-building, the importance of employee experience, performance management and fostering creativity in the workplace. With his prolific storytelling style, he has presented at the Fast Company Innovation Festival, Culture By Design, and Vivid Ideas. He currently sits on the board of the Tech Council of Australia and the Council of Trustees of the National Gallery of Victoria.

Anna Brown OAM is a lawyer, advocate and founding CEO of Equality Australia, a national organisation dedicated to equality for LGBTIQ+ people. She played a critical role in the campaign for marriage equality, co-chairing the Equality Campaign and running the challenge to the postal plebiscite in the High Court, as Legal Director at the Human Rights Law Centre where she led the Centre's LGBTIQ rights work.

In these roles Anna has been instrumental in hard fought battles to fend off regressive religious discrimination laws, as well as successful campaigns to secure federal LGBTI discrimination protections, remove discriminatory laws across the country, right historical wrongs by establishing schemes to erase historical homosexual offences, prohibit conversion practices and remove barriers to accessing birth certificates. Anna’s legal work has helped to ensure that young trans people can access vital hormone treatment without the cost and delay of going to court, advanced marriage equality and furthered recognition of sex and gender diversity.

She was previously an advisor to the former Attorney-General and Deputy Premier of Victoria Rob Hulls, a senior associate at law firm Allens Linklaters and Federal Court associate. She was named one of Australia’s top 10 influential women by the Australian Financial Review in 2019, was a finalist for Victorian Australian of the Year in 2015 and named inaugural Victorian GLBTI person of the year in 2014.

Catherine has – and does -wear many hats. Athlete. Coach. Local Committee Member. Volunteer. Anti-doping Officer. CEO. Board Director. Government Official. She’s the Mum of 2 wild little boys. Currently Catherine is a Board Director with the Queensland Rugby Union/Queensland Reds and CEO of Paralympics Australia.

Catherine is a passionate believer in the power of sport to unite, strengthen, inspire and catalyse change. Her career in sport has straddled multiple countries, codes and levels of governance. Catherine returned to Australia having taken paths less travelled, acquiring a global cache of experience along the way. In February 2022, she took up the role as CEO of Paralympics Australia, a role she says has it all. Purpose. Excellence. Social change. And the opportunity to play a role in shaping Australia's future through Brisbane 2032.

Akii (they/them) is an international multi-award-winning disability, gender equity advocate and activist who is deeply passionate about disability rights, intersectionality, inclusion, survivor-advocacy and non-tokenistic co-design. They are a proud, young, disabled, neurodivergent (Autistic, CPTSD & ADHD), trans femme non-binary and Queer/LGBTIQA+ person of colour, from a refugee background. Akii lives with numerous complex chronic illnesses, disabling chronic pain and various physical disabilities.

They are an expert consultant, trainer, educator, keynote presenter and internationally published & represented model. Recently working as Sydney WordPride’s Accessibility Manager, is a Senior Co-design & Engagement Consultant for the NDIA focusing on the LGBTIQA+ strategy, a Councillor on the Victorian Disability Council, a United Nations International Day of People with Disability Ambassador and sits on many advisory groups, steering committees and lived experienced panels across Australia. Akii is a qualified public health, policy and health promotion practitioner with over 13 years of extensive experience, multiple tertiary qualifications and varied expertise throughout Australia and overseas, spending their entire career dedicated to making a positive and sustainable difference to the community.

Brianna is the CEO of Foodbank Australia, the country’s largest hunger relief organisation. Brianna joined Foodbank in July 2016, following her successful term as CEO of Australian Childcare Alliance NSW. Prior to that, she spent 14 years in agri-politics, both in NSW (as Policy Director) and Queensland (as CEO). Brianna has served on a number of Ministerial Advisory Councils throughout her career, is an active volunteer in her community, a proud member of Chief Executive Women and a past recipient of the Pro Bono Australia Impact 25 Award.

Helen Waters Silvia is the CEO of Women’s and Girls’ Emergency Centre (WAGEC), a grassroots feminist organisation providing frontline support and accommodation to women and children, and driving primary prevention programs to end gender-based violence. Her career in social services spans over 25 years, holding a variety of executive and senior management roles, specialising in the homelessness, housing and DFV sector, as well as having experience managing Out of Home Care, disabilities, targeted early intervention among other program.

Helen has a particular interest in the translation of public policy to practice, innovative service design and delivery, and improving structural and systemic responses to marginalised people, particularly women and children impacted by domestic and family violence and the prevention of gender-based violence.

Appointed to the National Housing Supply and Affordability Council (Interim) in 2023, Helen has previously served on the board of Domestic Violence NSW (2016-2022), Chair of DVNSW (2017-2020), FAMS (2014-2018), FAMS and has recently been appointed to the board of Homelessness NSW.
Helen has background in social work, Diploma of Management, ProSci Certified Change Practitioner, and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Dr Emma Fulu is a researcher, social entrepreneur and one of the world’s leading experts on gender equality and violence against women, appearing widely across the media including on Al Jazeera, CNN, the BBC, the 7:30 Report and Q+A. Most recently she presented her views on women's economic opportunities at the Jobs and Skills Summit in Canberra.

She is the founder and Executive Director of the Equality Institute, a global feminist agency working to advance gender equality and end violence against women and girls. She is also the co-founder of VOICE, a non-profit organisation that partners with women and girls in conflict and disaster settings to amplify their solutions to violence in their own communities. Before that she worked at the United Nations and led the ground-breaking UN Multi-Country Study on Men and Violence. Emma is Co-Chair of the Gender and Rights Advisory Panel of the World Health Organization, and a member of the Global Women’s Institute Leadership Council. She has a PhD from the University of Melbourne, is the author of Domestic Violence in Asia, co-founder of Women of Colour Melbourne and publishes widely on diversity, equity and inclusive leadership.

The mother of three children, Emma lives in Melbourne Australia.

Katherine Boiciuc is recognised as one of Australia’s 29 Inspirational Women making waves in STEM and Most Inspirational Women of Web 3 & The Metaverse in 2022. She is a global leader with extensive experience in the technology and telco industries.

Katherine has held senior and influential roles focused on global impact and world technology enablement. Katherine has spent the past 2.5 years advising Australia’s next generation of executives and CTOs as a Director at Maximus. She spent 19 years at Telstra where her team, across 20 countries, delivered services such as risk and compliance, strategic execution, CX strategy and NPS measurement, and digital enablement including deployment of Tableau, Salesforce and Einstein. She has a rich catalogue of blogs and articles on mentoring advice to women in digital, data, STEM and tech leadership roles. Katherine has been an advocate and global keynote speaker on diversity in technology, women in Tech and Web 3 for over a decade. Katherine is an accredited Futurist and is featured in Futurist World on the topic of the Future of Leadership.

Katherine’s approach focuses on supporting leaders to adapt and grow through embracing disruption, experimentation with new technology and ensuring new ways of leading are embedded in daily practice. She enjoys enabling leaders and their teams to be future ready and thrive amongst the ever-increasing complexity of change that leaders face. Katherine also serves of the boards of Knoxbrooke, Infoexchange and NSW Bureau of Health Information.

Professor Michael Flood is an internationally recognised researcher on men, masculinities, and gender, violence against women, and violence prevention. He has made significant contributions to scholarly and public understanding of men’s involvements in preventing violence against women and building gender equality, and to scholarship and programming regarding violence and violence prevention. Professor Flood is the author of Engaging Men and Boys in Violence Prevention (2019), the co-author of Masculinity and Violent Extremism (2022), and the lead editor of Engaging Men in Building Gender Equality (2015) and The International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities (2007). He is also an advocate and educator.

Dixie Link-Gordon is a proud Gooreng Gooreng woman from Southeast QLD. She moved to the Inner City of Redfern about 43 years ago, feeling very proud to call Redfern home. Having earned respect in her community as a Domestic Violence Community Educator & Advocate across New South Wales. Working the sector for the past 35 years. Dixie is currently a program co-ordinator at NSW Aboriginal Women’s Advisory Network Closing the Gap Target 13. Dixie has experience as a Senior Community Access Officer, working with Women's Legal Serivce NSW (2015--2022). She has worked as a Project Officer at Full Stop Australia (2014-2015). Dixie has further worked as an Executive Officer/ Founding Employed Worker for the Mudgin-gal Aboriginal Women’s Corporation, Redfern Sydney (1992-2014). To enable vulnerable First Nations Women to find a safe environment in which to share their deeply personal stories, Dixie founded the Breaking Silent Codes Movement in 2018.

Dixie is the recipient of the following awards; Gowland Domestic Violence Award, 2016, Bright Spark Award, 2015, Edan Ryan Award, 2015, Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Lands Council Community Worker Award, 2012, UTS Alumni Human Rights Recipient for her commitment to Aboriginal Communities Awareness & Prevention in Family Violence 2010, Manager and Co-creator of “Healthy Family Circle” Program Federal Government award winning program for good Practice for Families 2009. Domestic Convenor of the community driven “Blackout Violence Campaign” NSW State Award winner for Community VAW 2004. Dixie Link Gordon has participated in and held parallel and side events at the United Nations CSW in 2012, 2016 and 2019.

Julie Inman Grant is Australia’s eSafety Commissioner. In this role, Julie leads the world’s first government regulatory agency committed to keeping its citizens safer online.

Julie has extensive experience in the non-profit and government sectors and spent two decades working in senior public policy and safety roles in the tech industry at Microsoft, Twitter and Adobe.

The Commissioner’s career began in Washington DC, working in the US Congress and the non-profit sector before taking on a role at Microsoft. Julie’s experience at Microsoft spanned 17 years, serving as one of the company’s first and longest-standing government relations professionals, ultimately in the role of Global Director for Safety & Privacy Policy and Outreach. At Twitter, she set up and drove the company’s policy, safety & philanthropy programs across Australia, New Zealand & Southeast Asia.

As Commissioner, Julie plays an important global role as Chair of the Child Dignity Alliance’s Technical Working Group and as a Board Member of the WePROTECT Global Alliance. The Commissioner also serves on the World Economic Forum’s Global Coalition for Digital Safety and on their XR Ecosystem Governance Steering Committee on Building and Defining the Metaverse. Under her leadership, eSafety has joined forces with the White House Gender Policy Council and Government of Denmark on the Global Partnership for Action on Gender-Based Harassment & Abuse.

In 2021, Julie oversaw significant increases in the eSafety office’s budget, increased staffing levels and launched the global Safety by Design initiative. As Commissioner, she has led work to stand up novel and world-first regulatory regimes under the new Online Safety Act 2021, with implementation of a sweeping new set of reforms beginning on 23 January 2022. Commissioner Inman Grant was reappointed for a further 5-year term by the Australian Government in January 2022.

The Commissioner was recently named one of Australia’s most influential women by the Australian Financial Review and a leading Australian in Foreign Affairs by the Sydney Morning Herald. In 2020, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Apolitical appointed the Commissioner as one of the #Agile50, the world’s most influential leaders revolutionising government.

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Sunita is a non-executive director for Maurice Blackburn Lawyers and the UN Global Compact Network Australia, the principal sustainability initiative in Australia. She is also a senior advisor at Accenture Australia alongside running her own consulting practice, Gloster Advisory.

Sunita is a public speaker, a panellist on ABCTV's Gruen and a guest writer in the AFR and Marketing Trade Journals. In the UK, Management Today Magazine voted her in the ‘Top 35 Women in Business Under 35’ in 2003 and 2005. She has won two President’s Awards for leadership in Marketing by the World Federation of Advertisers in Brussels and she is currently ranked fifth in B&T Magazine’s Top 30 Women in Media Power List in Australia which she has ranked in for the last eight years. Last year she was awarded the Industry's Champion of Change by B&T Magazine.

Sunita is a strong voice for the acceleration of diversity, gender equality and inclusion as critical business imperatives to drive growth. She has been awarded for her work in this area, including a Champion of Change award in 2022 by B&T Magazine and a 2021 Edna Ryan award for making a feminist difference in Media and Communications.

Maree Davenport is the Chief Executive Officer of Endometriosis Australia. She also serves on the Federal Department of Health Endometriosis Expert Advisory Group and the organising committee for the World Congress on Endometriosis, being hosted by Sydney in 2025.

Maree was the youngest woman elected to the Parliament of Victoria (aged 28), the first to have a baby while serving and was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary for Health, Housing, Community Services and Aged Care, Member & Deputy Chair of the Joint All-Party Scrutiny of Acts and Regulations Committee, Chair of the Redundant Legislation and Regulation Review SARC Committees and other senior policy roles.

A Member of Chief Executive Women and accredited Mediator (NMAS), she holds a Master of Leadership specialising in gender equality, diversity and inclusion, along with tertiary qualifications in property, communications, risk (GIA) and governance (AICD).

From 2013 until 2019, Maree served as chair of Minister for Planning’s Building Advisory Council (BAC) comprising of the peak bodies and regulators in the building and construction industry. She was also a Member of the Building Appeals Board at the Victorian Building Authority. Additional experience includes the Ministerial Roundtable Industry Skills Consultative Committee, the Critical Incident Protocol Working Group (DJCS), the Australian Building Codes Board (ABCB) Industry Leaders Consultative Group and Building Confidence Report Steering Committee, along with the Victorian Swimming Pool and Spa Safety Committee.

Maree is an inaugural Foundation member at Monash Children’s Hospital, a Board Member of Dandelion Wishes Foundation, and previously President of WavLink disability service for 7 years. She is an Ambassador for Carlton Football Club, appointed 2013.

Maree is a Mum of 3 and Nanree to 3 grandchildren. She has shared the life defining-challenges of endometriosis through her daughter, who developed symptoms at the age of eight. Brianna endured years without a diagnosis and many surgical operations. The challenges when symptomatic affect all facets of her life. She has become a nurse in an emergency department where she can support other sufferers. Brianna understands the challenges with fertility and pregnancy risk, and is delighted to be Mum to Oliver, born August 2022.

Professor Jayashri Kulkarni AM graduated in Medicine from Monash University in 1981 and became a Fellow of the College of Psychiatrists in 1988. Jayashri commenced her appointment as Professor of Psychiatry at The Alfred and Monash University in 2002.

Professor Kulkarni founded and directs two research centres – HER Centre Australia and the Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre (MAPrc). She is also Head of the Department of Psychiatry, Central Clinical School, Monash University -Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences.

Jayashri has conducted ground-breaking clinical research and is internationally acknowledged as a leader and expert in the field of Women’s Mental Health, in particular, for her innovative work on reproductive hormones and mental illness. Her world-first research in hormones and mental health has led to the development of new treatments for women with mental ill health. She developed and launched Australia’s first women’s mental health hospital at Cabrini Health in September 2021.

Jayashri received an Order of Australia (AM) in 2019 for her services to Medicine.

Grace is a commercial health professional, Registered Nurse, ex-Big4 accountant, founder and CEO of Menopause Friendly Australia.
She has worked alongside Australia's pre-eminent medical researchers and global pharmaceutical and biotechnology innovators to advance medical breakthroughs through clinical trials.

Grace is a member of the Australasian Menopause Society and the International Menopause Society and recently contributed to the first ever Menopause Roundtable in parliament Canberra.

An advocate for women, Grace helped senior executive women secure board roles through the first Director Pipeline Project at the Australian Institute of Company Directors and consulted to the Victorian Human Rights Commission when they formed a gender policy for golf. She was the youngest woman appointed to a golf body when at 25 she became a director and Vice President of Women’s Golf WA. Advocating for equity in the sport, she sat on the amalgamation committee when the WA women’s and men’s golf associations merged to form Golf WA. She was soon after invited by Golf Australia to contribute to the reshaping of the National Handicapping System.

She brings 15+ years experience in commercial partnerships across industries including professional services, NFP, finance, sport and accounting. After completing a Masters of nursing and becoming a registered nurse, she turned her attention to medical research at Linear Clinical Research where her most recent role was Head of Strategy and Performance. After being invited to an internship with Brandon Capital, Grace became determined to contribute to the gap in evidence-based solutions for women’s health and menopause. She believes in a world where women can thrive at work through all ages and stages of life.

Since being discovered performing stand-up comedy in a dingy pub sometime in the early 2000’s, Jo Stanley has become known for her warm and honest style of content. Twenty years later, she is now a true multi-talented creator, including as a performer, writer and TV and radio presenter.

Jo is co-host of The House of Wellness TV and Radio, is producer and host of numerous podcasts, writes a regular column for the Sunday Life Magazine, and is the creator of the Play Like A Girl kids book series. Her performance style, which is heavily influenced by her stand-up comedy roots, makes her a much sought-after MC and speaker. Jo spent 12 years in breakfast radio, during which time she took 2 shows on 2 different networks to Number 1. She’s one of the only women in Australia to ever do this.

In 2017, Jo left FM radio, and having gone from on air host to listener, quickly became frustrated that there was no radio station catering to women’s interests and life experience (feeling over-tired, overwhelmed and over-looked, anyone?). So she decided to do something about it. She is now building Broad Radio – Australia’s first radio network for women, by women. Jo’s vision is a global community of women who are happy, healthy and fearless, connected by the transformative power of radio that truly reflects who they are.

Jo is passionate about women’s and girl’s health, gender equality, social justice and mindfulness. In support of these issues, Jo is a patron for Lighthouse Foundation and for Wellsprings for Women, and is ambassador for Left Write Hook. She loves her daughter Willow, her husband Daz, running, meditation and the Collingwood Football Club, but don’t hold that against her.