Melissa Doyle AM
Journalist & Producer

An accomplished and awarded journalist with more than 30 years experience, Melissa is one of the best-known and trusted voices and faces in Australian media. In the 2016 Australia Day Honours List Melissa was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her "significant service to the community through representational roles with a range of charitable groups, and to the broadcast media."

Elka Whalan (formerly Graham)
Dual Olympian & Founder Queenhood

The founder of Queenhood- a dream team of women; Elka has created a vibrant community uniting women everywhere.

A medallist at every major meet World championships, Olympic games, Commonwealth games, Elka became the first woman in the world to win the 100/ 200/ 400/ 800m freestyle at the world cup championship in 2002. With over 25 Australian titles to her name and a professional swimming career that spanned two Olympics and 7 years.

Elka is the president of Sydney University Sports and fitness swim club.

Justine Flynn
Co-Founder Thankyou

A true disruptor for purpose, Justine's leadership as co-founder of Thankyou has seen a small start-up go against all odds to become one of Australia's leading social enterprises, globally recognised for its creativity, innovation and impact. Justine's personal leadership journey and wisdom gleaned from the lessons learnt over the last decade and a half in business will leave a profound impact for other leaders on their own journey. 

Kristina Karlsson
Founder kikki.K & Dream Life 

Swedish born Kristina was the Founder of kikki.K, and more recently Dream Life. Kristina sold all she owned to create & build globally loved Swedish design & stationery business, kikki.K - from the ground up, to have: 120 award winning retail stores in 5 countries; a passionate team of 1500, an online store serving stationery & design lovers in over 150 countries and total revenue of around $650m.

Alana Nicholls
Founder & CEO Pro Purpose

Alana's vision of a world where profit and purpose prosper together energises the Pro Purpose movement, connecting business to charitable impact. For the past 22 years, Alana has been building a growing, purpose driven business with her husband Joshua that has donated over $1.2 million towards overcoming poverty and disadvantage. Alana now leads Pro Purpose, a non profit that makes giving with purpose simple for business.  Pro Purpose is on a mission to have 70,000 Pro Purpose businesses collectively giving $1billion to charitable impact by 2035.