As Co-Founder of the world’s first 100% natural vitamin team, Julie created a product that was described by Telstra’s HR Group Executive as having the potential to ‘disrupt a whole category’.

Beyond product innovation, Julie will discuss how persistent and radical innovation is possible at every level of business and can lead to opportunities for profit and purpose, as well as empowering staff outside the C-Suite.

Julie’s own businesses have proved by creating an ethical supply chain and patent-pending manufacturing process that are the backbone of their product’s success.

Key Takeaways:

• Creating a culture that fails forward (or the Duvet policy)

• Innovative thinking at every level of business

• Building the confidence to become a challenger

Fair and ethical decision making is possible at every level of business. Through both of her businesses, Julie realised that it wasn’t just through their certifications or donations that she could have impact.

Every decision was an opportunity for impact, from the warehouse where the goods were stored, the paper in their office to the farms that grew their tea. This creates a powerful environment for staff and leaders to make positive change within the remit of their role.

Key Takeaways:

• Identifying opportunities for impact from the smallest to the largest decisions </li>

• Creating an ecosystem of empowered staff to make ethical decisions

• Every person becomes a change-maker every time we spend a dollar

An interactive presentation to inspire the next young innovator, entrepreneur, and social impact leader, tailored for VCE Year 11 / 12 Students in Business Management, or Secondary Students building their 21st Century Skills.

Julie represents the 1% of businesses started by a female entrepreneur under 30, having founded a Fairtrade tea company that secured shelf in 1500 stores during its first year trading, and raised over $1million in equity capital funding.

Your students will enjoy a funny, interactive and educational session that brings to life the concepts in core curriculum through real-world stories told by a Forbes 30 Under 30 list member.

Key Takeaways Include

• Nurturing the qualities to become a successful entrepreneur

• Baking impact into your business model

• How to build entrepreneurial bravery by understanding risk

• Managing Change through stories from the Global Pandemic

• How Julie and her business partner became part of only 2.7% of Venture Capital Funding to go to female founders in 2019, and how we can close that gap

The sustainability actions of a company heavily influence how consumers choose products, with 61% of Australians saying that sustainability moderately or very much influences whether they buy a product (Capterra; n995). At the same time, consumer mistrust of "greenwashing" is on the rise, and practical complications to implementing sustainability initiatives are slowing down companies from reaching their goals.

With a decade of experience in climate action, spanning environment-NGOs and the for-profit sector, Julie deeply understands both the ambitious vision and complex practicalities of sustainability. Julie began her career in the environment sector, becoming the Deputy Director of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, Australia's largest climate NGO, and serving 4 terms on the Board of Directors.

After seeing the on-the-ground impacts of climate change on farms in developing countries, Julie became passionate about Fairtrade, the most rigorous certification system supporting farmers and the planet, eventually leading her to found multiple Climate Pledge businesses with ethics and sustainability at their core.

In this interactive keynote, Julie will inspire with climate resilience stories from farming partners in developing countries, motivate with the challenges she has faced in tackling sustainability in her own businesses, and provide a practical framework for the many broad and varying ways that sustainability can be built into your business, from supply chain and packaging through net-zero targets.

Key Takeaways

• Motivate and inspire with on-the-ground stories of climate impacts and resilience, and how your business decisions can make a difference today

• Widen your view of sustainability with a practical framework of varying ways that sustainability can be built into your business, from supply chain and packaging through net-zero targets

• Understand the immense opportunity your sustainability practices have to build trust and transparency with your consumers

What if we viewed every dollar we spent as a vote for a gender-equal world?

As a female founder of two first-of-their-kind businesses that directly support women farmers in developing countries, Julie is deeply passionate about sharing her experience-led learnings of how economic empowerment will pilot us to a more gender-equal world.

This keynote has been crafted specially to inspire audiences on the 2024 UN International Women’s Day topic: “Count Her In: Accelerating gender equality through economic empowerment”

Your team will enjoy an interactive and practical session that brings to life:

• The power that each of us has with every dollar we spend to accelerate gender equality through economic empowerment,

• Stories of how working with Fairtrade has directly impacted the lives of women farmers in developing countries

• Strategies to overcome gender-based barriers by an entrepreneur who joined the only 2.7% of equity capital funding that goes to female founders