Daizy is passionate about diversity, leadership and womens’ empowerment. She is currently the youngest Director at Australia’s largest publicly listed community banking company and leading Deakin University’s startup entrepreneurship initiative – SPARK Deakin for over 250 000 students and alumni. The program has funded 51 founders whose 20 startups have generated over $3m in revenue and created 99 jobs. She also serves as an advisory board member to the Centre for Sustainable and Responsible Organisation (CSaRO) at Deakin University. Previously she co-founded Zana Consulting during her time in Tanzania and is the Founder of Social Enterprise Collective (SeCo), an organisation which exists to bring together young change-makers. In 2018 she served as a delegate to the G20 Young Entrepreneurs Alliance in Argentina and in 2019 was selected as a delegate for the Australia India Youth Dialogue. She is currently writing her first book Quarter Life Crisis and working on Bold Punjab – a new initiative to empower female founders & leaders in India, starting with Punjab.
Speaking topics:
– Women in Leadership
– Diversity
– Being A Change Agent
– Entrepreneurship
– 2019 BMW Australia Key Note
– 2019 Future Female Conference Moderator
– 2019 Foundation for Young Australians – Linkedin & Building Relationships
– 2019 Melbourne International Student Conference – keynote on Failure
– 2019 Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Australia Awards Scholars’ Forum, keynote on Being a Change Agent
– 2019 Pausefest – Australia’s premier creative, tech and business conference held in Melbourne – MC of Growth Stage
– 2019 Golden Key Society Keynote (Deakin University)
– 2018 Bendigo Bank State Conference on Youth Engagement
– 2018 Panel member alongside Ela Gandhi (Granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi) interviewed by Jon Fain for the Conversation Hour
– Schools include St Leonards College (Brighton)- Careers Keynote, Scotch College (on Global Citizenship), Distance Education Centre of Victoria (on social enterprise) and Ashwood High School
– Guest lecturing regularly at Deakin University on entrepreneurship, leadership and personal development