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Katrina Webb
Katrina Webb is our host for the 2019 Diversity and Inclusion in Sport Forum. Katrina is recognised and acknowledged for her success as a Paralympic athlete. She has won Gold, Silver and Bronze medals in athletics at three Paralympic Games. Katrina is a global ambassador for the International Paralympic Committee.
Due to her own experience in dealing with a disability, off the track Katrina specialises in powering leaders, teams and individuals to success. Katrina helps organisations and leaders to understand if they are enabling or disabling individuals to reach their unlimited potential. Her presentations focus on unlocking and unblocking what is holding individuals and leaders back both professionally and personally..
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Julie Inman Grant
Julie Inman Grant is the eSafety Commissioner. She commenced this five year appointment in January 2017. Julie has extensive experience in the non-profit and government sectors, and spent two decades working in senior public policy and safety roles in the tech industry at Microsoft, Twitter, and most recently Adobe.
Julie’s career began in Washington DC, working in the US Congress and the non-profit sector before taking on a role at Microsoft. Julie’s experience at Microsoft spanned 17 years, serving as one of the company’s first and longest-standing government relations professionals, ultimately in the role of Global Safety Director for safety policy and outreach.
At Twitter, Julie headed up Public Policy for Australia and South East Asia, managing a range of public policy issues, including online safety and countering violent extremism. Julie also built Twitter’s ‘Rules and Tools’ for safety, and conceptualised and piloted #PositionofStrength, which now serves as Twitter’s global female safety and empowerment program. Most recently, Julie served as Director of Government Relations Asia Pacific at Adobe, where she worked with governments across the region on issues such as innovation and digital transformation, creativity and STEM skills development and cybersecurity..
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Dr Niki Vincent
Dr Niki Vincent is the South Australian Commissioner for Equal Opportunity. As such, she is responsible to the Attorney General for the general administration of the SA Equal Opportunity Act (1984). Under the Act, her functions are to receive, investigate and conciliate complaints of discrimination; foster and encourage informed and unprejudiced attitudes amongst members of the public, with a view to eliminating discrimination; institute, promote or assist in research, data collection and dissemination of information relating to discrimination and; to make recommendations to the Minister as to legislative or other reforms that she believes will further the objects of the Act.
Prior to this appointment, Niki held the position of CEO of the Leaders Institute of SA as well as a concurrent appointment as a member of the SA Remuneration Tribunal. She currently Chairs the Australian Council of Human Rights Authorities (ACHRA), serves on the national management committee of Play by the Rules and is a member of the SA/NT Advisory Council for the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA). A mother of four adult children and grandmother to 9, Niki also is a weekend respite foster mum to a 16-year old girl from Liberia.
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Patrick Kidd
Patrick Kidd has been employed as a principal consultant in Deloitte since leaving the Australian Army in early 2015. He was seconded from Deloitte to be the CEO of the Invictus Games Sydney in December 2016 after winning the bid to host the Games and he then led the planning and delivery of the Games building a team of over 140 full time staff and 1000 volunteers. Before joining Deloitte Patrick had a 30-year career in the British and Australian defence forces during which he had the privilege to work alongside people from many different nations leading teams in dynamic and challenging environments; his operational service has included extended service in the Balkans, the Middle East and Asia. He now leads Deloitte ‘events for impact’ practice supporting organising committees to plan and deliver events which inspire change.
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Shari Cohen
Shari is the Member Protection Officer for Maccabi Australia and is passionate about sport and recreation being welcoming, inclusive and safe for everyone. She is also the All Abilities Inclusion Coordinator for Maccabi Victoria, and works in the fitness industry with older adults and people with disabilities.
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Beau Newell
Beau Newell is the National Program Manager of Pride in Sport Australia, an Australian first sporting inclusion program specifically designed to assist sporting organisations at all levels with the inclusion of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) employees, members, volunteers and spectators.
Beau’s involvement in sport began at a young age as a player, referee, coach, selector and administrator of several sporting codes. He currently holds several positions in the sporting industry including Chairman of a Regional Sporting Organisation, Life Membership of several associations and a consultant for volunteer management. In 2011, Beau founded NSW Sport & Event Management which has since grown into a powerhouse for business operational support of community sporting clubs across NSW. Having previously worked for a State Sporting Organisation, his knowledge and understanding of the sporting landscape is extensive. Beau also represented Australia as an official at two Touch Football World Cups, with 25 international caps under his belt. In the years leading into the Marriage Equality debate, Beau and his Partner pioneered LGBTI+ rights advocacy in regional and rural NSW becoming the spokesperson for many outspoken LGBTI+ individuals in country Australia which led to Beau being nationally recognised for his contribution for his LGBTI advocacy at the Australian Honour Awards.
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Cassie Lindsey
Cassie has over twenty years’ experience working across government, industry, not-for-profit, education and sports sectors. Recognised as a prevention of violence and gender equality expert in the sports environment, Cassie has developed tailored programs for Rugby Australia, NRL, AFL, FFA and Netball Australia to build their capability for positive cultural change.
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Karen Pearce
Karen has spent 19+ years at Basketball Victoria as General Manager Inclusion and Strategy championing the inclusion investment across a wide variety of platforms and earned respect for her vision, forethought and ability to influence and assist others to step into this space. She is now currently the Executive Manager Women and Girls at Football Victoria.
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Yash Kammoun
Yashar is the project officer at ‘GoActive’, a health and fitness initiative run by the Lebanese Muslim Association (LMA) for girls and women. Yashar is driven to promote physical and social well-being programs, provide social and emotional learning to youth and ultimately provide an opportunity to all women to lead healthier lives, primarily through participation in sporting and health programs.
From dribbling on a football pitch in her teens to ‘handballing’ on an AFL (Australian Football League) field as an adult, Yashar Kammoun is no stranger to sport. She was first introduced to AFL in 2014 when she attended a training session run by the ‘Auburn Tigers’, now known as ‘Auburn Giants’ and has not looked back since. Yashar has played an integral role in developing the club’s junior participation rates as she coached the inaugural Under 18s girls team and is the coach of the current Under 15s boys team. Despite being on the receiving end of flying elbows and swinging knees as well as suffering a concussion or two, the passion instilled in Yashar always finds her back on the field, setting an example for the youth. In 2017 Yashar was the recipient of the “Harmony Award” at the prestigious Phelan Mostyn Medal night from ‘Multicultural NSW’ for her commitment to engaging young women from culturally linguistic and diverse backgrounds in AFL.
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Peter Rubinstein and Dave Carter
Peter Rubinstein is Managing Director of Media Heads. He has spent more than four decades working in the entertainment and media industries, in Australia and the US, and has more than 29 years’ experience dealing with Government on major campaigns and initiatives. Peter is also a highly respected oral historian.
Dave Carter is Director of Content and Strategy at Media Heads and has worked in the media industry for 33 years, developing radio and TV content as well as numerous national awareness campaigns. He has extensive experience as a copywriter and is highly regarded for product creation and format development.
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Mitch McPherson
Few people have the drive and dedication of Mitch McPherson. When his younger brother Ty took his own life in 2013, Mitch, a glazier by trade, turned the devastating loss into the successful suicide prevention charity SPEAK UP! Stay ChatTY.
Since then, Mitch the 2017 Tasmanian Young Australian of the Year, has spoken to over 600 events which include school groups, workplaces and sporting clubs and is dedicated to spreading the message that nothing is so bad that you can’t talk about it. Through partnering with key community groups, businesses and sporting identities SPEAK UP! Stay ChatTY has over 24,500 likes on its Facebook page, and this support continues to grow daily. Since 2014 Mitch has partnered with Relationships Australia Tasmania, to ensure that the message of SPEAK UP! Stay ChatTY continues to grow. Now with a dynamic and passionate team, programs in schools and sporting clubs across the state continue to educate Tasmanians on the issues surrounding mental health – https://staychatty.com.au/programs/
Mitch’s vision is that SPEAK UP! Stay ChatTY will become a national charity, with a focus on delivering programs in schools and sporting clubs around Australia to increase awareness and remove the stigma surrounding mental health
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