Breakfast for Women in Business

Past Event

Friday March 8, 2013

International Women's Day Celebration

Featuring a league of extraordinary achievers

What an inspiring morning of wondrous womanhood!

Featuring a league of extraordinary and exceptional women:

The Hon Jann Stuckey MP

QLD Minister for Tourism, Major Events, Small Business and the Commonwealth Games.

Prior to her election to State Parliament in February 2004, the Minister operated a communications consultancy working mainly for the tourism and small business sectors. Her elevation to a Cabinet position in the Campbell Newman-led LNP Government in 2012 enables Ms Stuckey to draw on her two decades of experience in tourism, events, and small business for the benefit of the Queensland economy.

As the Member for Currumbin, Minister Stuckey has an in-depth knowledge and understanding of women in business and their changing needs and interests.

Trish Hogan

Trish Hogan is the CEO of Pindara Private Hospital. She has been in the health and education industries for the past 38 years in both the public and private sectors. Having managed many hospitals and health services in QLD, South Australia, the ACT and NSW, she has lived through the changing face of the Australian workforce for women.

Trish has studied at the QLD Institute of Technology, the University of Queensland and the University of New South Wales, and her qualifications include Nursing, a Bachelor of Educational Studies and a Master of Health Administration.

Trish was publicly recognised for her work in 2006 when she was awarded the inaugural “Tweed Woman of the Year” for leadership in health services in Northern NSW. Trish also owns and operates a medical adventure education company “Medicine on the Edge” which runs conferences around the globe.

Karen Williams

Business-woman extraordinaire Karen Williams is adept at acquiring and developing highly successful businesses. Her entrepreneurial spirit has led her to successfully found and lead an independent primary school, operate 22 child care centres, a Registered Training Organisation and a café with a cooking school.

With over 20 years experience in childcare and a Masters in Education, Karen is an expert in child behaviour, child development and effective parenting.

Karen also has plans to diversify into developing alternative medical centres and become more actively involved in her passion for property design and sustainable development.

Amery Burleigh

As General Manager of Sofitel Gold Coast, Amery currently sits on the Advisory Boards of Griffith and Bond Universities’ School of Tourism and Hospitality and is on the Accor Asia Pacific Steering Committee for Women at Accor - an initiative to grow more women in the company at an executive level.

Currently the only female General Manager for the brand in Asia Pacific, Burleigh is passionate about helping the company identify and appoint further strong women into leadership roles promoting women in business at executive levels.