Kari Sutton has helped over 25,000 children, parents, and educators, providing evidence-based strategies and tools to foster resilience, emotional wellbeing and positive mental health. Kari delivers tangible strategies that are immediately actionable and positively impact both child and parent wellbeing and emotional resilience.
Melissa Dale founded Meka Recruitment after recruiting for the construction and infrastructure section noticing the gap in supplying the right candidates. Meka is committed to providing the right people to you, ensuring you meet your deadlines. We have developed innovative software that gives our clients complete transparency with no hidden charges.
Meka Recruitment assists our clients with Labour Hire that is project based or Permanent recruitment solutions.
Meka Recruitment has a number of staff with first hand experience in the fields we recruit for, this gives us a clear understanding of the requirements you need.
Our team is able to assist with strategic employment strategies resulting in increased staff retention.
Our job is to find the right person for your business so you can focus on increasing revenue.
Meka Recruitment’s goal is to change the labour hire and recruitment stigma, making it more affordable and efficient for our clients.
We can also assist with all your Human Resource requirements, managing staff can be tricky and time consuming. Let Meka handle your staff while you focus on the business.
As Chief Economist at PRD Dr Diaswati (Asti) Mardiasmo monitors a wide variety of macro and microeconomic trends, both within and external to Australia, that directly and indirectly impact the Australian residential real estate (housing) market.
As part of the senior management team at PRD Asti leads a team of research analysts that provide high level residential property insights to PRD franchises across Australia, private and government institutions, individual investors, and the wider community.
In her spare time Asti serves as the secretary for the Queensland Multicultural Council, sits as an external advisory board to the University of New South Wales’ Risk and Future Resilience Group, and is an advocate for Women and Minority group mentoring.
Maree Adshead is the Queensland Small Business Commissioner. The Commissioner aims to advocate, enable and empower small businesses to help drive economic growth in Queensland.
Maree is an experienced advocate and small business owner having spent 10 years in the legal profession, and as partner of a tier one national law firm. She co-founded and built her own successful software start-up businesses which received multiple awards for excellence in innovation, and has also been instrumental in helping others to build theirs.
She became founding CEO of the Open Data Institute Australian Network in 2014, which was dedicated to enabling business, industry, academia and government to use public data as a strategic resource.
In 2017 Maree was appointed the inaugural Queensland Small Business Champion, establishing a trusted interface between business and government, advocating on behalf of the Queensland small business community, as well as triaging and referring disputes.
Having achieved great work for Queenslanders as Small Business Champion, Maree now leads the Office of the Queensland Small Business Commissioner.
Prav Singh- Pillay is the Principal Lawyer of Cornerstone Law Offices. She became a lawyer 25 years ago, being one of the first graduates of Griffith University’s Law/Commerce Degree program. She has worked in the legal industry in Australia and California. In 2014, Prav and her business and life partner, Bob Pillay, opened the doors to Cornerstone Law Offices Pty Ltd. Whilst Prav’s passion is in the area of Family Law and Domestic Violence, the firm is a general practice law firm, with 23 team members offering services in the areas of Family Law, Criminal Defence, Civil Litigation, Debt Recovery, Wills & Estates, Conveyancing, Property Law, Commercial Law and Migration.
Prav has a keen interest in advocacy and over the years has and continues to represent clients in State and Federal Courts. Prav is also a Nationally Accredited Mediator and a Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner. Prav is a Rotarian, volunteers at 4 community legal centres, is on various committees, and the firm supports a number of community events, sporting groups, and charity groups. Cornerstone Law Offices is located in Brisbane City, Gold Coast, North Lakes, Loganholme, and Mt Gravatt.
Natasha is a passionate advocate for Youngcare, and young people with disabilities. Wife, Mother of 3 kids and a recently became grandmother.
Jo Stevens from The Zen Zone is a mother of two adult children and has been married for 25 years.
In 2014 Jo’s husband was diagnosed with PTSD, it was an extremely difficult time for Jo and her family and her own mental health was impacted. It was through her families mental health journey that Jo learnt the importance taking back control of her own mental wellbeing and now her goal is to help others and put The “ZEN” back into their Zone.
The Zen Zone provide practical mindfulness tools to help quiet the mind with simple body Zen Movements to support strong mental wellbeing.
Prav Singh- Pillay is the Principal Lawyer of Cornerstone Law Offices. She became a lawyer 25 years ago, being one of the first graduates of Griffith University’s Law/Commerce Degree program. She has worked in the legal industry in Australia and California. In 2014, Prav and her business and life partner, Bob Pillay, opened the doors to Cornerstone Law Offices Pty Ltd. Whilst Prav’s passion is in the area of Family Law and Domestic Violence, the firm is a general practice law firm, with 23 team members offering services in the areas of Family Law, Criminal Defence, Civil Litigation, Debt Recovery, Wills & Estates, Conveyancing, Property Law, Commercial Law and Migration.
Prav has a keen interest in advocacy and over the years has and continues to represent clients in State and Federal Courts. Prav is also a Nationally Accredited Mediator and a Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner. Prav is a Rotarian, volunteers at 4 community legal centres, is on various committees, and the firm supports a number of community events, sporting groups, and charity groups. Cornerstone Law Offices is located in Brisbane City, Gold Coast, North Lakes, Loganholme, and Mt Gravatt.
Ally Kelly is the Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Mind Blank a mental health promotion charity. Selected as the 2021 Suicide Prevention Australia Outstanding Contribution Award winner, Ally is passionate about difference to empower people to implement mental health strategies and have conversations that save lives. Since the pandemic commenced in 2020 she has supported over 500 WH&S Officers and their working groups to support best practice when it comes to the mitigating psychological hazards in the workplace.
This podcast series is proudly supported by the Queensland Mental Health Week Community Events Grant Program.
