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Presented in Partnership with Canberra Business Point, this will be a special feature prior to the March Schmooze.
Are you in the public sector but dream of your own business? Then use some of your flex time and come along to this Q&A style panel discussion held from 4.15pm to 5.15pm.
The Panel will feature several small business owners who have made the transition from public service to starting their own successful small business.
They will share insights on how they did this, and how skills learnt working in the Government sector translate into the private world. There will plenty of chances to ask questions of the panel and gain insights from those who've made the successful transition.
Places are limited so please reserve your place right away!
Please note, you'll need to register seperately if you are coming to the March Schmooze afterwards.
The Panel
Emila Rossi
Emilia Rossi is the Director of Carmen Steffens Canberra and Carmen Steffens online, resigned from the public service along with her mother and business partner in 2007 to pursue the dream of importing a high end Brazilian fashion brand to Australia.
Carmen Steffens Canberra opened in April 2008 followed by the launch of the online boutique and the men’s collection in 2009. Current plans include the opening of another boutique in Melbourne.
Emilia travels to Brazil twice a year to attend a fashion show to carefully hand pick each season’s collection, sponsors several charity and fashion events, and holds an annual fashion show titled Cor da Moda (the colour of fashion).
Please see her website here.
Georgina Carberry
Georgina is an award-winning designer. Following studies in Art History and Philosophy at the Australian National University, she studied design at Billy Blue Creative & Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London. A former employee of the National Portrait Gallery, and retailing giant Westfield,
Georgina is the President of the ACT branch of the Australian Graphic Design Association, and a member of the National Council of AGDA. She founded Spice & Co. Design in 2004, and oversees our range of international contacts including copywriters, photographers, illustrators and art directors.
She works across print, online, motion graphics and copywriting.
You can view her website here.
Kylie Watson
After rising through the ranks of the public service and reaching the senior executive level, Kylie left to enjoy the consulting world, but realised after a few years that it didn’t balance well with her family commitments.
She went back to the public service part-time but sought a creative escape that would enable her to be her own boss and be even more flexible with her time than ever before. The perfect solution presented itself when Kylie’s young children kept breaking her necklaces and she found herself picking beads up off the floor at the most unusual times in the strangest places.
A search for baby tug proof jewellery highlighted the need in the marketplace and La Bella’s strong and sassy jewellery was born.
La Bella is an online store that is now almost 12 months old, has won a best new business award and is achieving high growth rates. Kylie is on track with her goals for the business and has just opened up an export market to New Zealand. Please see her website here.
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Phillip Jones
Following a 12 year international career as a restauranteur, Phillip worked for 6 years in several government departments and agencies including the ATO, DAFF, Arts, and the Murray Darling Basin Commission in a variety of policy and program management at the EL1 level, he realised he missed the cut and thrust and creativity of the private sector.
Leaving the security of the APS he took the first job that came along and at the same time conceived Schmooze as initially a support network to assist his transition back to the private sector.
Now after six years, Schmooze is a major professional community in the ACT region and Phillip consults back to government focusing on communication issues and is a guest speaker on networking and professional inter-personal skills topics.
You can see his website here.
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