Past speakers

Melinda is a strategist and innovator with over 10 years’ experience in helping for-profits, not-for-profits and governments create lasting commercial, social and environmental v...

Sasha Courville is responsible for Corporate Responsibility Strategy at NAB. Until joining the Corporate Responsibility team, her main focus was on driving NAB's Natural Value ...

Paula is a leading Corporate Affairs professional and Non Executive Director with almost twenty years experience in large Banking & Financial Services, Media, Education and Res...

Leeora Black is founder and managing director of the Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility. Leeora is a globally recognised CSR and sustainability expert and has mo...

Peter is the passionate, innovative and deeply committed leader of one of Victoria’s leading charities, YMCA Victoria. As a teen volunteer he witnessed the demise of the YMCA in ...

Mike Hirst was appointed as Managing Director of Bendigo and Adelaide Bank in July 2009. Since joining the bank in 2001, Mike has held the positions of Chief Executive Retail B...

Chris Newlan is Suncorp Personal Insurance’s Head of Strategy and Corporate Affairs. Chris’s role spans many of Australia’s most prominent insurance brands including AAMI, GI...

Sarah Cobourn is the Senior Officer of CSR and Corporate Affairs at Hitachi Australia. She also lectures at the Faculty of Business at the University of Technology Sydney. Sarah ha...

Virginia Trioli is the co-host of ABC News Breakfast, and has been presenting the program since its launch in November, 2008. A two-time Walkley Award winner, Virginia has an es...

Dame Julia Cleverdon DCVO, CBE is a passionate and practical campaigner who has gained an international reputation for 'connecting the unconnected', inspiring individuals and organ...