Take The Lead
Moderator: Nicole Abadee • Kirstin Ferguson and Sasha Kutabah Sarago
How do you insist on your own value and values? What does it mean to lead with compassion? From the ethically thorny to the downright weird, three wise Aussie women take your workplace etiquette, self worth and leadership questions in this special interactive session.
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DR KIRSTIN FERGUSON AM is one of Australia's most prominent leadership experts and the author of two award-winning books. She writes a weekly column in the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age and sits on a range of company boards. Kirstin is the former Deputy Chair of the ABC and was the creator of the viral #CelebratingWomen campaign.
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SASHA KUTABAH SARAGO is a Wadjanbarra Yidinji, Jirrbal and African-American woman. A former model, Sasha grew frustrated by the invisibility of multicultural women in fashion and media. In 2011, she founded Ascension, Australia’s first digital lifestyle platform for women of colour. As a speaker, filmmaker and commentator, Sasha raises awareness around culture, diversity and equity in the business, media and lifestyle sectors. Sasha’s TEDx talk, ‘The (de)colonising of beauty’, was selected as TED.com 2021 Editor’s Choice and has fuelled her passion for redefining beauty and sparking conversations around femininity and womanhood from a First Nations woman’s perspective.
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NICOLE ABADEE is the books writer for Good Weekend, out on Saturdays in the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, and is also a regular contributor to their much-loved Two of Us column. She has a segment, ‘Between the Covers’ every second Friday on ABC Sydney where she talks books with Josh Szeps on his Afternoons show and she appears regularly as an interviewer at writers' festivals and literary events.