Business Women Australia Online C-Suite Brains Trust: Strategic Challenges, Collective Wisdom

Okay, welcome everyone to our wonderful Brains Trust online and the wonderful Rebecca Lithco who's going to help facilitate our growth and our sharing today. Um, so wonderful to have you all here. Um, for those of you who don't know me, I'm Lynn Hawkins. I'm the founder and national director of Business Women Australia and we're

celebrating an 11 years, would you believe, of surviving and I think we're actually thriving now. It's quite extraordinary. A lot of people think we're an overnight success, but it has been a decade of shaping and evolving uh around our co-design with our members. So I'm actually streaming from the lands of Mangdup and it's the the heartlands

of the Nunga nation and the Bjarab people here south of Perth, south of of uh Bulu. And I'd like to play pay my respects to elders who have danced, lived and celebrated on these on these uh oceans and these rivers and and esties for over 60,000 continuous years. Despite um this Peele region, despite uh the fact that

uh that Peele did try and uh remove all the indigenous peoples from here, there were massive massacres actually around these regions. and the truthtelling that's happening now is really being an incredible healing and repair for all of us. Um I really do acknowledge elders past, present, and emerging and honor uh the country that I'm on. Um and feel so

grateful to be able to celebrate our um culture, the longest living indigenous culture in the world. Um and to celebrate our indigenous sisters in business. There's some wonderful entrepreneurial women around this region who are just teaching me so much um about our native um foods and seeds and uh they have some great businesses that