Business In Colour

Div Pillay & Sadhana Smiles•omny.fm

Business In Colour is a podcast that inspires, empowers and mobilises leaders and allies to understand and act for greater diversity. Hear our stories so that you understand our journey, our experiences and our wants. We bring to you leaders who are doing incredible work in this space. We know this work is not easy, we know the challenges leaders face. Our hope is that by listening to the leaders on the Business In Colour podcast, you make a commitment to act for positive change. Our businesses must reflect the colours of the communities we work and live in.

Hosted by Div Pillay and Sadhana Smiles.

This show is for you if you are interested in:

Leadership in Business
Workplace diversity
Inclusion practices
Innovative inclusion
Creating change
Equity in the workplace
High performing cultures
People and customer diversity and inclusion
Culturally diverse leadership

Get in contact with Div & Sadhana via LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/divpillay/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sasmiles/

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Episodes

Mannie Kaur Verma/The Human Centered Lawyer

Mannie is also the Principal Lawyer and Co-Founder of Vision & Regal Group (VRG), an innovative disrupter in the legal industry, being one of the only law practices in Australia that places intersectionality at the core of its work. She passionately advocates for marginalised communities, regularly appearing on various media panels and programs, like The Drum, Q&A, Law in Colour to provide a voice to those who are often absent from our complex judicial system. She has been named as one o...

Oct 27, 2021•52 min•Season 2Ep. 38

Deepak-Raj Gupta/Enough of Waiting Our Turn

Deepak-Raj Gupta has been many 'firsts' in his lifetime. Deepak was the first person of Indian origin to run in an ACT election, under the Australia Labor Party in 2016. Deepak, was sworn in, in July 2019, becoming the first Indian-born person to hold the position of a Member of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian Capital Territory. In this episode we cover a lot, from Deepak-Raj's background, journey into Australia, career trajectory, pathway into politics and his experiences in parliame...

Oct 16, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 37

Displacement is the cause of our time/Naomi Steer

Naomi Steer is the Founding Director of UNHCR Australia. UNHCR raises funds to support international humanitarian work. We talk to Naomi about what lead her to UNHCR, the work that is done by her teams at ground level. Keep in mind, Naomi's team are the ones left behind when everyone else has left - they are incredibly brave humans. Naomi shares her experience in refugee camps and her thoughts on the Australian refugee program. There are over 82.4M people who are displaced in the world (UNCHR Gl...

Oct 13, 2021•52 min•Season 2Ep. 36

Ro Allen/No fear to Step Aside

Ro Allen is the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commissioner. Sadhana and I loved this authentic conversation with Ro and we left inspired, hopeful and confident that Ro is leading the right conversations about human rights in Victoria. Ro comes at this work, through leveraging their lived experience, but also creating space for other voices to be heard. Prior to joining the Commission, Ro served as the inaugural Victorian Commissioner for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Gender Di...

Oct 06, 2021•56 min•Season 2Ep. 35

Steph Cousins/Securing Futures

Steph Cousins is the Co-CEO of Talent Beyond Boundaries - if you have not heard of them, jump onto talentbeyondboundaries.org and hit the employer button or job seeker button. Right now there are 30 000 talented refugees and other displaced people waiting to migrate on the basis of their skills to secure their futures. What Talent Beyond Boundaries has done in Australia, Jordan, Lebanon, New Zealand, the UK and the US is improve the pathways for people entering countries and match talent to dema...

Sep 29, 2021•52 min•Season 2Ep. 34

Step Into Your Diversity/Tasneem Chopra

Tasneem Chopra OAM is Cross-cultural Consultant, Board Director and popular expert commentator at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Tasneem is the inaugural 2021 Ambassador for Women of Colour, Australia. In 2020, Tasneem was awarded an OAM (Order of Australia Medal) for her efforts in championing diversity and has also been named an Anti-Racism Champion by the Australian Human Rights Commission. In this conversation we talk about her parents, her upbringing, her time in Darwin, Bendigo a...

Sep 22, 2021•57 min•Season 2Ep. 33

Make Your Dollar Work Four Times Harder/Laura Berry

Laura Berry is the CEO of Supply Nation, which provides Australia’s leading database of verified Indigenous businesses. You can search by business name, product, service, area, or category. Jump onto supplynation.org.auThis is more than just corporate social responsibility - did you know for every $1 of revenue, Indigenous Certified Suppliers generate $4.41 of social return. That means your dollar is working 4 times harder when you spend with Indigenous businesses. This just makes good business ...

Sep 15, 2021•56 min•Season 2Ep. 32

Who am I diverse from?/Mathuri Santhi-Morgan (Sari Day)

Powerhouse woman Mathuri Santhi-Morgan is our guest today. Like many of us she wears several hats - corporate life, family, political activism and founder of Girls Rising Up. Global, Intercultural, Resilient, Loud and Strong (GIRLS) Rising Up, is a movement to give intercultural women and girls visibility. She started it up when her own daughter experienced the "otherness" because of the colour of her skin. Born in Malaysia of Sri Lankan heritage, Mathuri shares the story of how her father encou...

Sep 01, 2021•50 min•Season 2Ep. 31

Women - Realise your financial power!/Christina Hobbs

Christina Hobbs is the co-founder of Verve Super, a super fund that is committed to empowering women and is Australia's first ethical super fund founded by women for women.Why is this important? Women retire on 47% less super than men and this impacts our ability to retire well, make the right investments, perhaps live independently or even achieve all of our potential.Christina is committed to building the financial power of women and at the same time ensuring that the funds are invested ethica...

Aug 04, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 30

Martiza Barone/Communicate with Yourself

Maritza is the producer and host of her own show, The Things You Can’t Un-Hear, which has consistently been rated in the TOP 20 Self-Improvement podcasts in Australia and she is Co-Founder of Conscious Conversations Australia, an organisation that creates tools for workplaces, schools and individuals to enhance human connection. Maritza is also the producer of Business in Colour! We are so proud to have her in our corner to help us get diverse stories out into the world. Maritza has her own powe...

Jul 28, 2021•51 min•Season 2Ep. 29

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