Global leaders championing climate action

Over the last 16 years, Christine has been passionate about teaching and sharing her knowledge on financial literacy and began to dig deeper beyond an advisory role on budgets.  Although she doesn’t feel very brave and courageous, she is pushing the boundaries, challenging the known, asking bold questions and advocating on change to the red tape by creating solutions to debt.  Christine...

Ziena Jalil has had a career of diverse roles where over time she was able to develop her own voice driven by a deep sense of purpose and passion (which you can definitely hear in her voice).  With a strong belief in fairness and equality she has learnt through generations of leadership in her family focused on integrity, hard work and respect.  As a young woman of migrant descent, a bro...

As the Country Lead for SheEO Australia, Julie believed in the mission and the changing landscape of capital flow change and how female entrepreneurs were leading, driving and activating that change. Believing that "patience is. a virtue", Julie has put courage and bravery as leading traits to step forward and navigate the challenges of launching a new brand into the market a few years ago with bi...

Starting out on the volunteer help line at Shine some 20 years ago, Holly always felt passionate about the cause and delved deep into the details and policies that surrounded Domestic Violence in New Zealand. With systemic barriers, safety and support walls and the general public attitude towards the issue, Holly wanted to share knowledge and insight and raise awareness to create prevalence on the...

As a Corporate Advocacy Specialist at Tearfund New Zealand, Annie is passionate, creative and full of spirit working to create a movement of positive change in the fashion scape and supply chains. Starting her career in the fashion industry, she had her eyes wide open to the complexity of the industry and the fashion system, and a long standing interest in advocacy. She has ultimately brought thes...

Heather is a woman who is all about human connection but firstly through connecting to who she is, by allowing space and time to think and reflect. After 25 years in her role at ASPECT and Advanced Skin Technology, she is clear about her path, what her values are and discovering the things that matter, and has chosen things along her journey to meet her values. Knowing that we are stronger togethe...

As a passionate mother of two, a vet, a farmer and founder of The Whole Story, her journey is a culmination of life experiences all coming together to who she is today.  With a strong focus on the agricultural industry and driving it forward through the lens of sustainability, it is often surrounded by controversy and negativity through a lack of understanding and fear.  Even when she of...

As a Maori Indigenous Woman, Rachel is an advocate for gender equality with a strong focus on empowering indigenous women, an innate characteristic that she embodied as she grew up, and observing the roles of women in her community. Launching Rise2025 Global, Rachel left the safety of her corporate role and jumped into the unknown as something didn't quite fill her cup. The stats for women in lead...

After working for 10 years in the Public Service, Chrissie had the curiosity to combine and bridge her Western Learnings & Maori Learnings from her upbringing and discovered that her passions ultimately lay in the combination of the two. Through change and evolution, listening and learning, appreciation of cultural differences, Chrissie used the notion that as a Maori woman that you "weren't e...

As a successful, savvy and influential woman of the world, Nikki has lived through layers of trials and tribulations, learnings and experiences to get to where she is today.  Nikki believes you need to fail to know who you are, and was often called stupid and that she had no value and hit an all time rock bottom in her late 40’s and entered a dark time in her life.  With a mantra of beli...

Camia is an architect at heart with the soul of an entrepreneur. With 2 masters under her belt, she always had a passion for the evolution of cities and landed in Christchurch after the earthquakes. She however, didn't just take the traditional lens of development and developed the evolution to the age of belonging, where people could connect and build a deep sense of community. With her current p...

Eva Pemper founded the brand EP Wines with a desire to continue her family legacy in the wine industry from the 80's in Croatia. With courage and bravery naturally in her blood, Eva took the leap to move to NZ leaving her family and friends and starting again, with Eva believing that both courage and bravery are two key pillars of success and propelling forward. A key driver to her success as a fe...

Founding Sharsies alongside 6 other diverse mindsets, Brooke and the team at Sharsies are on a mission to create a Financially Empowered Generation to support people to engage with their financial futures.  Brooke always wanted to be an entrepreneur after engaging in the Young Enterprise Scheme at school, has a strong focus on building High Performance teams, lead by the fear of not doing som...

Mandy was fortunate to grow up in a rural upbringing which she feels has had an earthing impact on her to be able to support the work that she does to lead family and whanau into a new way of being.  Taking design principles, fitting into a digital space, having diversity of teams and factoring in interventions.  All of these have culminated into the change and transformation space.&nbsp...

Jennifer Mills is the founder of Jennifer Mills & Associates and has often been described as taking the more difficult route, bucking the system and open to failing which has crafted her true entrepreneurial spirit, within a legal frame. She has always been challenged about being a female at the leadership table with a collective of internal politics within the organisations she was part of and fe...

With a passion for the skin being part of Tracy’s DNA, she is on a mission to create fearlessly healthy faces by using less and just what the skin needs.  With an obsession in reducing waste, she believes that reusing is the answer and calls on Entrepreneurial Women to say no to single use anything.  With a strong sense of transparency built into every stage of the business she feels that as a bus...

Niamh has always had a passion for people and through her work in research and insights has used this passion to uncover new opportunities which have often needed courage and bravery to step forward.    With a fascination in understating what drives peoples "why" to do what they love combined with what the world needs, overlapped by a deep sense of values, Niamh has crafted a succinct pu...

When our founder Catherine first met Niamh she was nesting in Hong Kong empowering innovators and entrepreneurs to connect and collaborate. Now perched in New Zealand, with a number of important life roles on the go, she is on a mission to find the ultimate balance between entrepreneurialism and being a mother.  With a strong self belief, embracing the unknown, continuous reading and learning...

As a solutions oriented, creative woman, Vicki Saunders has been an entrepreneur for over 30 years with a strong focus on doing good and making money... and the powerful movement when these two forces collide. SheEO is all about harnessing new models and new mindsets with 68 current global ventures and initiatives being activated all over the world by the dynamic SheEO community. Success for Vicki...

As the founder of Eat my Lunch, Lisa began this journey with strong foundations of purpose and that was that in a country fuelled by fairness (New Zealand) why was there so much disparity with many children going to school each day without food or the basics of white bread and chips. After becoming disenfranchised by her role in corporate New Zealand, a passion for food and socially lead business...

As the owner of Lauren Parsons Wellbeing, founder of the Snack on Exercise movement and Thrive TV show, Lauren has certainly crafted a life for herself and her family that is founded on healthy lifestyle principles and values. But it wasn't always this way. She describes her youth feeling like she wished the ground would swallow her up to becoming a woman that was capable of far more than she ever...

As a product design engineer, Greig spent much of his early career working to invent a product, to really create something extraordinary.  It wasn’t until he spent a year in the UK and was inspired by the volume of umbrellas and the lack of function and style that he began to craft out what is today known as Blunt Umbrellas.  The design, aesthetics and craftsmanship went against the grai...

Olivia has been engaged in the active practice of yoga, the philosophies and the lifestyle for many decades and launched Pulse off the back of her great love of everything that it brings to light.  With the recent launch of The Honour Festival being hosted in Hanmer Springs in Feb 2021, Olivia wants to share her love of nature, beauty, health, clean living with a like minded collective of peo...

As the CEO of the Maori Women’s Development Trust in New Zealand, Teresa is navigating, pivoting and adapting their organisation just as quickly as the needs of their clients who are operating businesses in New Zealand. She describes her calling to this role as an adventure and a great alignment to her purpose to be working alongside her own people. As both an intrapreneurand an

Karen Walker enabled her early signs of creativity when she was able to dig through a box of old fabric and jump on her mothers 1960's Bermina sewing machine. Shortly after at 18 she started her brand, which wasn't a time in New Zealand to be young and creative and Karen began to challenge many of the social norms through her early expressions of creativity. With a strong focus on having great pro...