2010 Women and Management Dinner

Elizabeth Proust AO and MBS Dean and Director Jenny George
 Registration desk before the dinner

 

2010 Women and Management Dinner a great success!
The 2010 Women and Management Dinner was held at the Grand Hyatt Melbourne, on Thursday 5 August and was a huge success. Guest speaker, Elizabeth Proust AO, spoke with passion, humour and intelligence about women in leadership in a very well received speech. Over 600 people registered for the dinner.   To read more about the 2010 dinner click here.

Dinner
Over the years the Women and Management Dinner has grown to welcome many of the country’s leading businesses and although a premier event, it retains an engaging and intimate feel which is of great appeal to its guests.

Today, the WAM dinner attracts a diverse group of over 600 women and men, and features keynote addresses by outstanding women leaders of business, government and community who openly share their leadership journeys.  In the past, a number of our guest speakers have included: Margaret Jackson AC, Former Chairman, QANTAS; Gail Kelly, CEO, Westpac; Pera Wells, Secretary-General, World Federation of United Nations Associations; and Catherine Walter AM, Chairman, Equipsuper. To view highlights of the 2009 Women and Management Dinner click here.

In 2010, MBS was delighted to welcome keynote speaker Elizabeth Proust AO, director of Perpetual Ltd, Spotless Ltd, Insurance Manufacturers Australia Pty Ltd, and of Sinclair Knight Merz Pty Ltd.  She is also Chairman of Nestle Australia, a member of the Advisory Board of JP Morgan, and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

The Dinner is one of Melbourne’s leading forums for celebrating the achievement of women in management, and for discussing issues of gender and diversity in the workplace.

Background - MBS Women and Management
The origins of Melbourne Business School’s Women and Management (WAM) brand are with some of our first female graduates. In 1983 the first annual lunch was held at the Lyceum club for women graduates to network and connect. From there the brand developed into the Women and Management Group with the launch of the first dinner in 1992.

The group put together a program of activities in which various students volunteered to take responsibility for the management of each event. This had the benefit of offering women students an additional opportunity to play a leadership role in the school.

Program/Association
The WAM program has developed into a student association that supports and promotes women at MBS and in business. The Association can be accessed a resource and support platform, for female students to enable them to acquaint themselves with the female Faculty, alumni, business partners and fellow students. The group promotes diversity in management.