Business In Colour

Our guest today on Business in Colour is Nassim Khadem, who is an award-winning journalist, reporting on business news across online, radio and TV for the ABC. Nassim began working as a journalist with The Age in 2003, including being the newspaper's economics correspondent. Before joining the ABC, she worked in various business reporting and editing roles for Fairfax Media's BRW magazine, The Aus...

As we celebrate International Women's Day and head off to our various events, consider the theme for this year. #Embraceequity. I see equity not as something we need to embrace as a nice to have, but as a fundamental human right. We shouldn’t have to fight for equity, or justify it, it should be a given. Equity is about the financial, emotional, and physical safety of women.   When we consider the...

This episode features Aseel Tayah who is a leading practitioner, creative producer and the founder and CEO of Bukjeh. Her work is deeply committed to making social change through the arts, culture and education. This Melbourne Based-Palestinian artist is, the eldest of 5 children and was taught by her father – a Professor in science to ask why and to say no before yes. In this podcast we talk abou...

Anyier Yuol is a human rights and diversity, equity & inclusion activist. She is the Founder and CEO of Anyier Model Management and the Founder and Chair of Lead Beyond Education & Miss Sahara. Her numerous awards include; a Young woman of the West 2020 (highly commended); PhD scholarship at Western Sydney University 2019; Zonta International District 24 Women of Achievement Award 2019; Pr...

Our guest in this episode is Ilanit Bard who is an outstanding leader and innovator in the food service and fine dining industry. Born in France to a North African Mother and a Middle Eastern Father, she says, fitting in, has always been her priority growing up. In this episode we talk to Ilanit about her career transitions from developing corporate travel software;  to polishing plates and cutler...

Wanitha Tanasingam has a unique ability to help people expand perception beyond preconceived notions using 'FoodPrints'. Cross-cultural connections between peoples, cultures and history. Through food and cooking, she builds mindfulness around nourishing oneself, one’s community and world - drawing out analogies to broader social, environmental, and business issues. Please enjoy the magnetic Wanith...

Sadhana and I are reflecting on 2022 and have chosen 5 top picks from the year to re-air across December.  This episode is with the magnetic Jahin Tanvir, CEO of the Australian School of Entrepreneurship,  3-time TEDx Speaker, a Keynote Speaker & MC, UNICEF Young Ambassador, Young Australian of the Year, Finalist 40 under 40 Most Influential Asian-Australians 2022. He reminds us that our ident...

Sadhana and I are reflecting on 2022 and have chosen 5 top picks from the year to re-air across December.  This episode is a standout and feels a little, like our contribution to recording history. We interviewed Zoe Daniel a Teal Independent candidate in March 2022 this year ahead of the May 2022 election and it is so wonderful to see her use your voice in our Parliament in her seat. In this epis...

Sadhana and I have picked 5 episodes as our topic picks for 2022 that will re-air through December. They capture our core messages to the business community and people everywhere about valuing and including difference. This episode with Kemi Nekvapil talks about Power - how we give it up, how we lose it, how it is taken from us, how we reclaim it. Kemi is a highly respected executive and personal...

Soak up the amazing Paula Kruger, she is warm, funny, smart and vivacious. She is currently the Talent Manager at the ABC. We learn about her Fijian, German, Australian background and how she has embraced all parts of her being and belonging. Throughout this conversation, we hear Paula’s self-leadership, how she feels the fear and runs towards it anyway, creating new pathways for herself and other...

Dianne McGrath is one of Australia’s leading sustainability experts, holds three degrees in sustainability including a PhD, and is a member of the International Society of Sustainability Professionals. She has lived her life challenging what others thought impossible, whether that was to live a year with no single-use plastics, prepare for a fully-sustainable one-way mission to Mars, choosing to c...

Ashara Wills is a multicultural professional who has worked through the ups and downs, curves and corners of being queer from a young age. She has established a strong foundation of support through her family, friends and networks whilst also surrounding herself in the community services sector. Ashara has always been an advocate of the LGBTIQA+ community by engaging in meaningful conversations pa...

In this episode we interview Michelle Loader, Managing Director of Fisher Leadership who cares as much as about the individual's diversity as she cares about the organisation as a whole, including the Board. We ask her the tough questions about why leaders are so slow in making progress on gender, culture and other diversities; and what she is doing about it. We talk about her views on capability,...

Imagine starting an AFL team with no funding, no coach and no experience. It takes a strong woman who’s not afraid to break all the rules to tackle a task this insurmountable. It takes Amna Karra-Hassan.  The Founder and President of the  Auburn Giants Australian Football Club , Amna Karra-Hassan has pioneered programs for women of minority communities in Western Sydney. As a woman and a Muslim, h...

Professor Manjula O’Connor is a psychiatrist with special interest in migrant women’s mental health, complex trauma and family violence. She is Hon Clinical Associate Professor at the Department of Psychiatry University of Melbourne. She was conferred Adjunct Professor University of New South Wales Department of Social Sciences in 2021. Manjula Chairs Royal Australian New Zealand College of Psychi...

In this episode we interview Ariel Weindling who is an employment lawyer and Founder of NotMe Solutions – a practical and empowering tech solution to prevent and address negative behaviours at work, bringing transformational change to the old way of reporting and complaints handling. With the rate of whistleblowing in the Australian media of misconduct, sexism and racism, with women marching for s...

What do Branson, Bridgeton & Ms Marvel have in common, well you will have to tune into our conversation with the fabulous Shivani Gupta to find out. Shivani is a Mental Wellness Expert, Speaker, Author and Mentor and is obsessed with everyone having tips and strategies to manage their mental wellness. Shivani has suffered sexual abuse, racial abuse and discrimination in her life. As she naviga...

Michelle Gibbings is an author of 3 books, Dare to Lead coach, Global Keynote Speaker, and is on a mission to help leaders, teams and organisations create successful workplaces.  Comfortable with getting uncomfortable, Michelle is at the forefront of creating workplace success by helping people embrace the unknown and fall in love with change. We talk about how we make assumptions based on past ex...

When Mimi Kwa set out to change the world, journalism was her weapon of choice, and it has taken her further than she could ever have dreamed, to become the first Asian heritage female on Channel Nine, anchor news to 40 countries, and interview significant decision makers and notable figures from around the globe. In Mimi Kwa’s memoir House of Kwa, published by Harper Collins 2021, she writes abou...

In this episode, we interview the brave and bold, Mallika Raj, who is the engagement lead for the Australian Labour Party, ACT Branch, the National Chair for the Young Leader Chapter for the Australia India Business Council and the owner and Founder of SAMA Health and Wellbeing – SAMA meaning Bodily Equilibrium or Homeostasis. I know you will feel this peace and grounding when you hear Mallika, sh...

In this episode, we interview Koon Lai, whose energy and passion is just infectious. She has led some pretty major client transformations during her time as a PwC Director, but what is clear is how she had led her personal and professional transformation. This is what makes Koon a powerful executive coach, she has the lived experience to give to her clients. Koon shares how she felt an Invisible w...

The bazaars of Mumbai taught a young Veena Sahajwalla that there is value in trash. Veena was the NSW Australian of the Year 2022...and in her acceptance speech she acknowledged those who traded in the bazaars of Mumbai.... "The award was a recognition that waste as a material, if it's valued, could have big positive consequences. We wouldn't throw it away, we would re-manufacture things, we'd pay...

In this episode, we talk with Alicia Vrajlal who is the Culture Editor at Refinery29 Australia and the Founder of the blog, Draw Your Box. This interview was so wonderfully warm and educative as Alicia offers her story of navigation and sense-making with her identity, facing into the many judgements from others: not Indian enough, not Fijian enough, not Australian enough. This resonates with Sadha...

Please enjoy this conversation with the co-hosts with the most-est, Div Pillay and Sadhana Smiles, as they celebrate their 60th episode. This is a reflective piece about how the podcast started, the impact the podcast is creating, with a little insight into how the co-hosts think on contemporary topics of inclusion in the workplace. Listen to their 'ask' or call out at the end for sponsorship - pl...

In this episode, we talk with Mitu Bhowmick Lange, Indian-Australian filmmaker, film producer…and Founder and Director of Mind Blowing Films – a distribution company. Mitu’s story is one of creating choices, seeing possibility and choosing deliberately. She is a natural story-teller and you will be drawn in with her words and how she weaves in contemporary dialogues on diversity and inclusion. She...