Jill Earthy: Defying Satisfaction: Re-thinking How We Work
Jill Earthy is an entrepreneur who has successfully built two companies, grown them nationally and then sold them. For the past 5 years, she has been the Executive Director and then CEO of the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs (FWE), a Non-Profit organisation educating, mentoring and energising female entrepreneurs. Jill’s passion is identifying opportunities, connecting people […]
Thelma Gibson: On Square One, The Power of Reinvention
Thelma Gibson gives her very personal view of rejection and racial prejudice redirected towards another path and motivation to succeed. Though she bore pain, rather than be angry she moved forward to do great things. For more than fifty years, Thelma has been a trailblazer in education, mental and physical health, community and professional leadership, […]
Brian Roche: Survival has Consequences
Knowing ‘now’ what we should have know ‘then’ is the basis of Brian Roche’s research. He will reveal to you the unsettling truth about the development of chemotherapy drugs and how, as cancer survivors who have taken them, face an uncertain cardiovascular future. And as his unexpected side effect, he may help redefine the methodology […]
Alex Holmes: Coz We Can, From Beating Bullying to Random Acts of Kindness
Alex Holmes shares that, “Estimates suggest that half the population is bullied at some point in their lives. Bullying is alive in schools, workplaces, the media, Parliament and society! His talk tells of some of the creative techniques he adopted to change his school and community; the barriers he faced, the success and how he […]
Ruby Wax: What’s so funny about Mental Illness?
Diseases of the body garner sympathy, says comedian Ruby Wax, not so, those of the brain. Why is that? With dazzling energy and humour, diagnosed a decade ago with clinical depression, urges us to put an end to the stigma of mental illness.
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