On September 15th, CQUniversity hosted the seventh of nine events in their annual Festival of Change. Moderated by Lara Carton, CQUniversity’s Director of Social Innovation, hear Australian leaders Monica Davis, Rohan Fitzgerald and Colleen Tribe discuss the range of services, innovations and opportunities that contribute to community health and connectedness in regional Australia.
Read MoreOn September 8th, CQUniversity hosted the fourth of nine events in their annual Festival of Change. Moderated by CQUniversity Vice-President Global Development Alastair Dawson, meet sectoral leaders Matt Steine, Professor John Rolfe and Dr Amanda Cahill who operate across regional government, industry, and are driving regional projects for sustainable futures.
Read MoreOn October 30th, Impact Boom and Mumma Got Skills hosted the sixth panel for Impact Gathering: Supporting Women in Impact-Led Business. Panelists Jo Cavanagh OAM, Cinnamon Evans, Emma-Kate Rose and Donna de Zwart joined Carlie Dole to speak about the current issues surrounding being a female with strong impact, finding support and developing strong networks of allies.
Read MoreOn September 1st, CQUniversity hosted the first of nine events in their annual Festival of Change. Moderated by CQUniversity Vice-Chancellor, Professor Nick Klomp, the Generation COVID youth panel discussed how the pandemic has disrupted education, work opportunities and future planning for countless young people.
Read MoreOn October 9th, Impact Boom and Mumma Got Skills hosted the fifth panel for Impact Gathering: Authentic Marketing For Stronger Impact. Panelists Yasmin Grigaliunas, Kaylene Langford and Alice Pritchard-Davies joined Carlie Dole to speak about the current issues surrounding being a female with strong impact, with the particular focus on how to successfully market impact-led businesses.
Read MoreOn September 18th, Impact Boom and Mumma Got Skills hosted the fifth panel for Impact Gathering: Funding and Growing Your Impact Business. Panelists Anna Guenther, Belinda Morrissey, Lisa Siganto and Camille Socquet-Clerc joined Tom Allen to speak about the current issues surrounding being a female with strong impact, with the particular focus on funding and growing impact-led enterprises.
Read MoreOn August 28th, Impact Boom and Mumma Got Skills hosted the third panel for Impact Gathering: Business Models for Impact-Led Business. Panelists Prof. Ingrid Burkett, Angharad Lubbock and Katie Richards joined Carlie Dole to speak about the current issues surrounding being a female with strong impact.
Read MoreOn August 7th, Impact Boom and Mumma Got Skills hosted the second panel for Impact Gathering: What Is Your Purpose. Impact Gathering is a 6-part webinar series of Candid Conversations With Women In Impact-Led Business. Panelists Danielle Duell, Pip Forbes and Holly Tattersall joined Carlie Dole to speak about the current issues surrounding being a female with strong impact, with the particular focus on finding and living a life with purpose.
Read MoreOn July 24th, Impact Boom and Mumma Got Skills hosted the first panel for Impact Gathering: Why Female-Led Is Different; a 6-part webinar series of Candid Conversations With Women In Impact-Led Business. Panelists Lara Carton, Anika Horn, Stacey Ross and Elise Stephenson joined Carlie Dole to speak about the current issues surrounding being a female with strong impact, including building confidence, supporting each other and changing the lens of business for all.
Read MoreOn August 26th, Impact Boom, QSEC & Social Traders hosted an impact-led breakfast forum, with David LePage providing strong insights on blended-value business and building a movement which creates strong value for our communities. It was followed with a panel conversation and audience Q&A which largely focussed on how we might further develop the social enterprise ecosystem in Australia.
Read MoreOn August 20th, Impact Boom ran the ‘Marketing Your Enterprise’ session at the Social Traders Conference in Melbourne, bringing together some of Australia’s leading social entrepreneurs for some informative and lively presentations and discussion to help social entrepreneurs create better brands.
Read MoreOn June 10th, Impact Boom hosted the Multicultural Impact Entrepreneurship Experience, bringing together our community for a workshop, networking and informative discussion on multicultural business in Queensland and more broadly in Australia. The panel conversation and audience Q&A focussed on ‘Accelerating Multicultural Entrepreneurship’ with the aim of advancing the conversation forward.
Read MoreOn February 4th, Impact Boom hosted the First Nations Impact Entrepreneurship Experience, bringing together Indigenous Australians for a workshop, networking and informative discussion on Indigenous business in Queensland and more broadly in Australia. The panel conversation and audience Q&A focussed on ‘Accelerating Indigenous Entrepreneurship’ with the aim of advancing the conversation forward.
Read MoreOn October 26th, the Logan Social enterprise Forum was held, bringing together key stakeholders to share ideas and experience, network and discuss the future of social enterprise in Queensland and more broadly in Australia. Impact Boom hosted a great panel which local and national leaders, with the aim of advancing forward conversation, ideas and the sector.
Read MoreOn October 25th 2018, the Sunshine Coast Social Enterprise Forum was held with 200 attendees representing a broad range of sectors, local and state government. Impact Boom proudly supported the forum and hosted a panel discussion with some of Queensland’s leading social enterprise ecosystem builders. So how might we best create positive social change in the regions? Read on to find out.
Read MoreOn April 6, IMPACT! Social Enterprise hosted its first 2018 event, in conjunction with Visible Ink Youth Space and Impact Boom. IMPACT! Is a youth run organisation educating youth on social enterprise methods. Held at Visible Ink, a sold-out crowd engaged with a Women in Social Enterprise panel and Q&A. The night produced interesting debate around the use of language, intersectionality and lived experiences...
Read MoreOn February 8th, Impact Boom hosted its first 2018 event, with a packed house of passionate leaders and changemakers coming together to discuss how we might best activate system change. With no shortage of community issues to address, and a highly experienced panel, we knew this would be an intense and insightful discussion...
Read MoreOn Episode 42 of Impact Boom, we bring you a live-recorded panel on innovation from the Impact Conference in Australia. The panel discusses current trends in technology & how innovators & entrepreneurs are leveraging it to create positive social change. They provide insights into the social enterprise sector, policy, venture capital and authentic leadership.
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