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Year 2007 & Prior - Meetings & Events

7th November 2007

SIMONE PRESTON Founder of Business Women Connect

Igniting the Potential....To Achieve

Founder of Business Women Connect

Business Women Connect is for professional women from Home Based, Small to Medium Corporates providing networking platform on a monthly basis. Networking luncheons being held on the Central Coast, Newcastle, Port Stephens, Sutherland & Illawarra.

Held at Choo Choo's Brasseries

3rd October 2007

MICHELLE PASCOE
Igniting your potential ....To Achieve

Managing Director of Oops!- Optimum Operating Procedures and Services

Michelle Pascoe an Accredited Trainer and Assessor. OOPS was established in 1994 delivering Customer Service training to both small and large businesses in a broad spectrum of industries, including Real Estate, Retail and Manufacturing throughout the Greater Western Sydney and Sydney areas. OOPS has since expanded their team and now has specialists to provide the Club industry throughout New South Wales, ACT and New Zealand with a variety of services.

Michelle has identified that the secret to success of many women in the workplace has emerged from an understanding of their self worth. Many women have a latent potential to succeed and have well balanced lives. Michelle firmly believes that unleashing this potential comes from the introspection of oneself; and understanding of the beliefs and values that one frequently shelters and a realisation of the often subconscious desire to succeed. Igniting self examination, women leave Michelle’s passionate presentation invariably commencing to challenge who they are, what they believe and where they want to be. They commence to understand or reinforce that they have the capacity to incrementally grow their dreams of a successful balanced life.

Contact Details: Michelle Pascoe Email: michelle@oops.net.au

Optimum Operating & Procedures & Service: website: http://www.oops.net.au

Cameo Speaker: Glennis Brooking, South East Community College

Held at Southern Highland Wines, Sutton Forest

19th September 2007 LUNCHEON

MARK BRADLEY
Markets are Conversions, Markets are Relationships

A Special Luncheon for Small Business Month sponsored by our Small Business Answers officer, Cate Hutchinson. This is an Australian government funded service under the home based business seminar and networking arrangements initiative

With the advent of social media networks and the development of tools such as blogs, wikis, podcasts, video blogs, businesses and organisations have the capacity to proactively change and shape opinion on any topic, engage in global conversations and deliver their messages to our target audiences with ease. This talk will introduce the new world of social; networks and Web 2.0 and focus on how these new tools can be used by businesses and organisations as part of a highly effective marketing and client engagement strategy.

See Mark's website at www.antipodean.squarespace.com

Held at Cragieburn, Bowral

5th September 2007

LEANNE GROGRAN
Australian Industry Group

Leanne Grogan is the Regional Manager for the Australian Industry Group (Ai Group), covering the Illawarra and South Coast Regions. Ai Group is one of the most influential industry organisations in Australia with some 9,000 members. Its goal is to consistently work to improve the competitiveness, profitability and growth of business and the broader economy.

Leanne’s career has had a strong business development focus. A particular highlight of her career was heading up the New South Wales Government’s Trade and Investment Office in the London covering the EU. Leanne will not only speak about her career and what brought her to her current position but will specifically speak about policies relevant to business.

With the coming Federal election much will be made about business policies by both major political parties and it will be difficult to determine the truth or myth of their statements. Ai Group is an a-political organisation and Leanne will offer a balanced view on these areas without the political twang.

Contact Details: Leanne Grogan Ph:4228 7266 E: leanne.grogran@aigroup.asn.au

Australian Industry Group website: http://www.aigroup.asn.au

Cameo Speaker : Kerry Anderson, Heaven Scent Mobile Spa

Held at Chelsea Park, Bowral

1st August 2007

MICHELLE BOWDEN
Why is every one around you Dysfunctional?
"Results through learning & laughter"

Are there employees in your company that you find desperately infuriating? Have you ever wondered why you get on really well with some people and not at all with others? Do you ever feel like most of the people around you are totally disfunctional and you are the only NORMAL one? Would you like to get the best out of yourself and others and still enjoy positive relationships? This special session with Michelle Bowden will investigate how you can better understand the people around you; your manager, partner, colleagues, family and friends, so that you can achieve more rewarding relationships.

Cameo Speaker : Linda Lambrechts, Vintuition

Held at Cragieburn, Bowral

6th June 2007 - LUNCHEON

BARBARA HOLBOROW

Australia Day, Barbara received a Medal of the Order of Australia, for service to the community, work as a magistrate and through her involvement with organisations promoting the welfare and rights of children.

Barbara Holborow served for 12 years as a magistrate in the children's court, where her compassion and outspokenness were legendary -- perhaps because of her own beginnings. Although she describes her childhood as happy, it was also lonely. An only child, her parents were fiercely protective. As Barbara tells it, that's the reason why she has 'enough love to hand out to other kids forever'.

When she was diagnosed with diabetes at the age of thirteen, her overwhelming feeling was one of guilt - a fear that she had let her parents down. It was a feeling she conquered, and since then she has never allowed the condition to hold her back. That does not mean it hasn't left a mark. Doctors at the time did not fully understand the complications that diabetes could bring to a pregnancy and Barbara's first child (a boy) died soon after he was born.

Although she later gave birth to a healthy girl, the death of her first child reverberated through her life. Not long after Louise's birth, Barbara split with her husband and moved back with her parents, found a job as a legal secretary and resumed her studies -- first high school then law. She was thirty nine when she graduated as a solicitor.

Barbara specialised in children's cases and it was through her work at a women's refuge that she met Jacob, a young Aboriginal boy she adopted. Since then, many foster children have come under Barbara's care, but it is as a magistrate that Barbara has had an impact on the lives of thousands of kids. Fiercely committed to reforming the

judicial system for children, she was involved in setting up free legal aid for children in NSW, a care court that deals with cases of neglect, and a special jail for first-time offenders aged eighteen to twenty five.

BARBARA’S LOCAL CHARITY INFORMATION

Wingecarribee Family Support,

6 Mount Rd,

BOWRAL

Phone: 4862-1777

Members can contact them re there program for the Winter which runs from July to August.

Held at Annesley, Bowral

4th July 2007

KATHY HUBBLE
Southern Pain Care

Kathy Hubble saw a disparity between specialist need and supply in the area of pain care management when she decided to start her business, Southern Pain Care.

Chronic pain affects 20% of women and 17% of men, and yet there is little specialist assistance available for people to learn to manage their pain. Kathy will share with us her journey in starting a business that no one had ever thought of before. She needed to build the business from an idea and her indentification of a need in the community, with little knowledge or the experiences of other similar businesses to draw on.

Cameo Speaker : Juliet Brady, Your Share

Held at Scottish Arms, East Bowral

2nd May 2007

NETWORKING MORNING

It was time for another morning of speed networking! You've heard of speed dating? This event will use the same concept to give you an opportunity for direct face-to-face networking with every other businesswoman in the room. Bring along a pile of business cards and brochures and join us for a morning of laughter, fun and serious networking!

Held at Mittagong RSL

7th March 2007

DR PETER SPITZER
Clown Doctor

Dr. Peter Spitzer Chairman, Medical Director Humour Foundation Dr Spitzer is the Chairman, Medical Director and co-founder of the Humour Foundation charity

The Humour Foundation Clown Doctor program is national and regularly visits paediatric as well as general hospitals and palliative care facilities. Peter works as Dr. Fruit-Loop with the aim of dispensing mirth, infecting the ward with laughter and leaving his patients in stitches. He is internationally acclaimed and he presents and lectures across Australia and overseas.

Held at Peppers Manor House, Sutton Forest

6th September 2006 - LUNCHEON

NOELINE BROWN

The Southern Highlands Business Women's Network was delighted to present lunch with Noeline Brown at Centennial Winery on Wednesday the 6th of September. It was a fabulous event.

Noeline Brown has been living in the Southern Highlands for the past 25 years, running her business Wintergreen Productions with husband and partner Tony Sattler from here. Noeline's career started in earnest with the Mavis Bramston Show in 1964, which made everyone connected with it a household name. In all she has appeared in hundreds of shows on television, stage, film and radio receiving popular and professional acclaim for her work, including a Logie award.

Noeline has always had a keen interest in social, political and community issues throughout her career. She stood for the Labor Party in both the 1999 and 2003 state elections, on both occasions increasing the party's primary vote but being narrowly defeated by the incumbent member. She is the Chair of the Actors Benevolent Fund (the first woman in the position in over 50 years) and donated her speaking fee for this event to that fund. She was seen on television last year in Celebrity Spelling Bee, winning the competition and $50,000 for the Actors Benevolent Fund, and most recently was seen on Dancing with the Stars.

Held at Centennial Winery, Bowral

5th May 2005 LUNCHEON

PROFESSOR KERYN PHELPS

This event was a great success for the Business Womens Network. There were 92 members and guests attending the luncheon held at the Bowral Country Club. Our heart felt thanks and appreciation to Kerryn for a most informative and entertaining talk, we are sure many went away motivated to better manage their health and life balance.

Professor Kerryn Phelps is Adjunct Professor at Sydney University in the faculty of Medicine in the Schools of Public Health and General Practice.

A busy GP herself, Dr. Phelps became interested in medical politics several years ago and in 1999 was elected to the position of president of the NSW Australian Medical Association.

In May 2000 Professor Phelps was elected President of the federal Australian Medical Association, an independent organization that represents over 27,000 doctors. She became the first woman ever to head this organization. She served the maximum term of 3 years.

Kerryn Phelps has been a familiar face to many Australians over the last twenty years during which time she has appeared regularly on television, radio and the print media informing the Australian public on health issues.

She acts as a consultant to various organizations and is currently very involved in educating the public on the integration of traditional and complementary medicine.

Professor Phelps has been the health writer for the Australian Women's Weekly for over ten years and she also write regular political commentary of Medical Observer magazine.

Aside from practising as a GP in Sydney, Professor Phelps also lectures at University, is an Australia Day Ambassador and in 2003 was awarded the Centenary Medal for services to Health and Medicine.

Held at Mittagong Golf Club

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