Kylee Stone

founder and chief storyteller

Kylee is a descendent of the stolen generations of the Kulluli and Wakka Wakka, a woman with an intrinsic talent for the power of storytelling to mobilise women in their career, business and entrepreneurial paths while taking care of their health and wellbeing.

A former director of Marketing & Strategy with News Corp Australia, and an internationally-recognised leadership coach, consultant and storyteller, Kylee has a talent for challenging the status quo and getting to the root of what matters, enabling diversity of opinion to stimulate creativity and deliver unprecedented breakthroughs in performance.

In 2015 Kylee exited 23 years in media to pursue her passion for empowering women who are juggling a myriad of challenges from a dysfunctional hierarchical leadership model to the fine-art of balancing a career with being a parent and rewriting the future for diverse and inclusive cultures.

Described as "one of the most engaging and authentic leaders of our time" and an "effervescent force of nature", it's Kylee’s compassionate and no-nonsense approach that earns her the trust and respect of others.

Kylee is a mentor and ambassador with Barayamal - the worlds first accelerator for indigenous entrepreneurs, Flexible Work Day, Driven Resilience - the #1 resilience app and virtual coach for personal use, companies and coaches, The Mentor Evolution and Trinity P3 Marketing Mentor Program.

Kylee is a mum of three children - William, Isabelle and Harrison. She is CEO of Design House Collective APAC, Founder of The Performance Code - a coaching consultancy specialising in leadership resilience, Founder of TEAM Women Australia and host of The Uncharted Leader Podcast

Read Kylee’s personal story here.

Cathy O’Brien

contributor & content creator

Cathy is passionate storyteller and advocate for women having the opportunity to feel strength in sharing their personal story.
She believes every woman has a unique story to tell and, while aware many women find it difficult to see value in their story, she knows from personal experience that sharing our stories is a powerful catalyst for finding a greater purpose.
Cathy is a published author in News Corp and Bauer Media. She was a guest speaker on the Today Show and has edited in-house publications for the Australian Multiple Birth Association & International charity FNDHope. She shares her own story at Life Through the Haze and is currently writing her first book. Cathy is a mother to three children - a son and identical twin girls.
In 2018, Cathy joined TEAM Women Australia to build relationships and advance women through the power of storytelling to inspire and mobilise change.
You can connect with Cathy on Linked In or follow her on Instagram.

Kendra Greig

creative event PRODUCER

Kendra is a creative producer, writer, speaker, entrepreneur and a mum of two children.
She is the Founder of Raw Sugar - Authentic Brand & Communications, the founder of online group Shit Bits - for Chicks who tell it like it is and a mother of two munchkins.
In 2014, Kendra joined TEAM Women Australia and co-created 'On-The-Couch: Living An Authentic & Compassionate Life'.
Kendra's sophisticated visual design and production sensibility is grounded in extensive experience in fashion, film, art, branding and marketing. Coupled with deep-rooted values and life experience, Kendra delivers a unique offering for clients wishing to make a meaningful impact. She has a remarkable talent, working with purpose-driven entrepreneurs and small businesses, for identifying and articulating their authentic voice, uncovering hidden superpowers, creating original experiences and inspiring visual communications that align with their core personal and brand values.
In the current landscape, exhausted with data overload, Kendra recognises that who we are and how clearly we are able to communicate and connect has become of utmost importance. Her agency, Raw Sugar speaks directly to the changing landscape in which authenticity and connection hold the highest value.

Gill McLaren

team women australia BOARD MEMBER, WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP advisor, facilitator and speaker

Gill McLaren is on a mission to help women design and live their best life. Gill decided to leave a successful international corporate and a C-suite career because she felt she wasn’t making enough difference to the world. She came to that realization through her journey of coaching and running workshops with other women.

These learnings and philosophies translated into life design, a practical approach that really helped others create their own best life. It started with her team, then her colleagues and then her friends. The reaction was so positive to best life planning that she decided to set up a business and write a book to focus on it.

Respected as a successful and authentic leader in her business career, Gill rose to being one of less that 10 Women out of over 100 in country general management roles globally at Coca-Cola. Gill also was a member of the Global Women's Leadership Council and Chair of the Pacific Women's Leadership council, with a focus on the goal of achieving gender parity in senior leadership positions.

Gill’s reputation as a change maker in business led her to be appointed to the Coca-Cola Global Women’s Leadership Council. The Council was set up as an advisory board to the CEO and operating committee. It was made up of 19 Senior women from all over the world. Together their focus areas were on Building the Business Case for Change and Developing holistic action plans that focused on how to Recruit, Retain, Develop and Advance the progress of Women into senior leadership positions.

The outputs included Women In Leadership training, new approaches to talent development and new flexible work policies.

Gill represented the Pacific Group and chaired the Asia wide council. The work she led in this area was a key contributor to Coca-Cola winning the Global Catalyst award for Women in Leadership in 2013.

Gill also prepared a White Paper to engage the senior leadership at Coca-Cola on the Cultural Shift needed to drive senior female representation from a positively improved but stagnating position of 30% to Coca-Cola’s 2020 Vision goal of 50%.

A personal highlight for Gill was her and two fellow council members presenting and discussing the case study at a multi-industry meeting at the Catalyst awards in New York.

Gill’s a big thinker and problem solver who engages others with honesty, pragmatism, passion and humour. Her book Think. Plan. Live. brings together learnings from her successful corporate career of 30 years, with working in multicultural environments with a best life plan.

Kitty Thomas

ambassador, debt angel solutions

Kitty Thomas is the Founder of Debt Angel Solutions, Australia's leading Debt Negotiation, Debt Management, and Debt Reduction agency. With over 20 years’ experience and 6 years in business, Kitty and the team at Debt Angel Solutions have helped hundreds of people, from all walks of life, save over $6 million dollars in interest and principle in only 6 short years, transform their debt situation and get on the path to financial freedom.
With over 25 years of personal development and leadership experience, Kitty has worked alongside some of the top influencers in business and finance including Sir Richard Branson.
Kitty is committed to transforming the conversation around debt, specifically removing alienation, shame, isolation, guilt and showing people that talking about debt is not only OK, it is the first vital step to taking back control and regaining a positive financial outlook.
Kitty knows what it is like to live with an unserviceable amount of debt. In her early twenties, a fresh-faced, passionate social entrepreneur, Kitty took a gamble with a business venture and despite enormous success found herself with $150K worth of unsecured debt.
Her response was a typical one, burying her head in the sand and hoping it would go away. It was five years later, before she decided enough was enough and it was what came next that not only transformed her own life, but the life of those around her.

Rejecting the solution she was ‘sold’ to consolidate the debt with a part 9 debt agreement, discovering it was an act of bankruptcy that would affect her long term.

Utilising her skills in communication, she focused on cultivating strong relationships with creditors, and in the process, gained a deep understanding of the options available to individuals in debt, pathways that were largely unknown to the public.
While carrying out her own financial recovery, Kitty acquired extensive knowledge around the legislation, processes and requirements of creditors when dealing with individuals in debt distress, and what approach was needed to ensure a mutually beneficial outcome for client and creditor alike.
After successfully achieving her own financial recovery and hearing story after story of people struggling to get out of the spiral of debt, Kitty realised how desperately a new approach to debt relief was needed. She began to use this knowledge to help others in similar circumstances, initially friends and family, but it didn’t take long for demand for her unique and incredibly effective approach to take those little-known solutions to the people, and so Debt Angels was born.
Kitty is now living her life’s purpose - helping others revolutionise the options available to those living in debt distress, empowering them to take back control of their lives by getting their debt into a manageable position, saving then time and money without selling out to acts of bankruptcy.

Kammeron Cran

ambassador, the team space

Kammeron is the Founder of The Team Space. She is an executive and team coach specialising in humanistic leadership, collaborating with teams to help them develop the behaviours and rituals that lead to high performance.

She is passionate about helping leaders create the space to be deliberately developmental as well as empowering women with her CARE-OF approach to turning difficult conversations into an opportunity to create connection, trust and mutual respect.

Difficult conversations are a normal part of life. Many people avoid difficult conversations in the workplace because it makes them feel uncomfortable. Even experienced managers can find these conversations daunting, despite being an important part of their role.

What was one of the most difficult conversations you had during your journey as a leader?

While juggling a senior leadership role in a company that was going through a major restructure, I was going through an extremely painful breakdown in my marriage. It nearly broke me. The relationship chipped away at my confidence without me realising it, until one day I had to suddenly end it. That I had ended up in a relationship like that, well that in itself, made me question my own judgement.

“In my mind I was a strong independent self-sufficient woman, so how did I end up a statistic?”

I didn’t realise it at the time, I was overusing the idea of resilience (in fact getting it completely wrong) and it was stopping me from being vulnerable. I soldered on telling myself and others “I’m fine’, but things were definitely not Ok.

I had a big team, two young children and huge pressures. Looking back it’s clear the best thing I did was be to honest with my employer, be honest with my boys and be honest with my team. It was a gift.

I had the most incredible support as a result and I inadvertently role-modelled how to keep showing up, how to be effective in having the most difficult conversations we unexpectedly navigate and keep moving forward despite adversity.

I now see that there is no way I could have done this without being vulnerable and showing compassion to myself and being surrounded by the most wonderful family, team and leaders.

With over 20 years in the media industry as a senior executive in a large corporate, as well as being a mother in a blended family, and a leadership coach, I have a wealth of experience in having difficult conversations.

Kammeron is an alumni of The Marketing Academy Australia, a global leadership scholarship for marketers who want to change the world, and is now a certified coach, a non-executive director of the charity ADHD Australia and a board member of the National Lotteries and Newsagents Association. Kammeron is passionate about human potential, teams, neurodiversity and the women’s justice movement.

Natasha Vanzetti

ACT AMBASSADOR, SPeaker & partnerships

Natasha Vanzetti is a project manager and discovery coach specialising in business development, capability, events and communication. She’s a natural teacher, supporter and communicator with diverse experience in the development of people and organisations.
Her genuine commitment to make a difference goes beyond business having climbed Mt Kinabalu in Borneo for the Little Paths charity, plus raising over $100,000 in 2 months towards medical treatment for young Canberra girl Olivia Lambert. Natasha then became a Trustee for the then newly formed Olivia Lambert Foundation, which went on to raise $500,000 for families living with Childhood Cancer.
She was a qualified Financial Planner who moved into business development within CBA and CommSec Advisory. In 2010, after 17 years working for others, Natasha decided to pursue her curiosity and launched the first version of her own business, which iterated into helping women globally pursue their own curiosity and passion in business.
Natasha is talented in working with women to be the best version of themselves, and is a great role model for women advancing as leaders in their career and entrepreneurial paths. While working on impact and capability with the Behavioural Economics Team of the Australian Government (BETA) at the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Natasha continues to play an active role as a contributor, storyteller and mentor with TEAM Women Australia.
As a speaker, coach and trainer Natasha is focussed on people embracing who they are, and understanding the most important story of all is the one they tell themselves.
Being a mother of two teenagers, Natasha appreciates the challenges women experience in balancing a career with their desire to live a more meaningful life. Making room to discover her own purpose in life, Natasha is known for compassion and helping others embrace their journey to create and write a story of their own.