For Conference queries and questions please contact the Conference Convenors, Edwina Bowie and Mija Reynolds. Conference Sponsorship queries to be directed to Kirsty Williams and Conference Registration queries and adjustments to Lisa Slade.
We have invited guest speakers to our conference, who will be presenting their valuable insights on a range of topics that are relevant to our members. So far, the following guest speakers have been confirmed:
Roger Rasheed has a natural appetite and ability to impact others, via their personal and team performances. You will find his work infectious and highly rewarding on many aspiring levels. Roger’s a proven leader; his energy and drive to impact others through his performance platform has proven to be highly successful and sustainable, delivering growth in changing climates, which continually challenge.
Roger is a highly respected International Tennis, Business and Life Performance Coach.
His sporting career commenced as a footballer before tennis took over from the age of 15. The journey as a professional tennis player was short lived due to major spinal issues. He retired at age 22.
Roger worked in the health, fitness and performance industries. He then decided to continue his tennis pathway through the form of coaching, which commenced internationally on the ATP World Tour in 2002.
He has coached and mentored elite, global tennis stars including, Lleyton Hewitt (world number 1), Gael Monfils (world number 6), Jo-Wilfred Tsonga (world number 5) and Grigor Dimitrov (world number 3) over a 16 year period. This era arguably housed the greatest players in tennis history, Roger Federer, Rafa Nadal and Novak Djokovic.
With a background in education, Kellie now combines this experience with over 16 years in the online safety space. She leads eSafety’s training initiatives to key audiences with direct influence on children and young people including parents and carers, educators and youth serving professionals. Early in her online safety career Kellie spent two years travelling to communities across urban, regional and remote Australia engaging directly with parents about online safety. A career highlight at eSafety includes representing the agency as part of the online safety expert panel for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Gavin was appointed Chief Development Officer Regional & Remote in October 2019, bringing more than five years of experience at NBN Co and 25 years within the telecommunications industry across Australia.
Gavin has held leadership roles that have spanned engineering, product management, marketing and strategy disciplines across consumer, business and wholesale markets.
Prior to joining NBN Co, Gavin held positions in Telstra, Optus and was principal of an independent consultancy. He was a Board Director of Southern Cross Cable and is currently a Director of Regional Arts Australia.
Gavin holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree (Hons) from the University of Melbourne and a Master of Business Administration from Macquarie University. He is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
