Women On The Move

Women On The Move

Women On The Move shares remarkable stories from women who have achieved significant milestones in their professional careers. These inspirational women explain the highs and lows, the devastating failures and incredible successes, and the invaluable benefit that comes from developing a support network to guide you on your business journey. Hosted by Donny Walford, Managing Director of Behind Closed Doors. Donny navigates these insightful conversations, drawing on her first hand experience working with boards, executives, senior management and business owners. Women On The Move is a podcast for women looking for guidance with their professional development and future career path.

  1. Breaking Barriers with Dr Samantha Pillay

    20/08/2023

    Breaking Barriers with Dr Samantha Pillay

    Samantha is no stranger to overcoming adversity. A late diagnosis of congenital hip dysplasia led to multiple corrective surgeries as a child. After starting school in a wheelchair, she finished school at age 16, completed medical and surgical training, and became the first female Urological Surgeon in South Australia.  With a vision to deliver specialised incontinence treatments to the women of South Australia, she became the first urologist in Australia to exclusively specialise in female and functional urology, establishing Continence Matters in 2002, subsequently building her single surgeon practice into a Centre of Excellence. She is a passionate businesswoman and entrepreneur. Dr Pillay has served on numerous National and State boards and committees, including the Female Urology Special Advisory Group Chair for the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand from 2007 to 2013. She was the first female to represent South Australia on the Board of Urology from 2003 to 2006, the first female scientific convenor for their Annual Scientific Meeting in 2007, and the first female chair of the South Australian Urology section in 2017. Samantha, a single mother, has devoted her career as a surgeon to treating incontinence, reducing the stigma, and educating doctors, health professionals and the community. She has developed an online Continence Course to educate health professionals in an often-neglected area in medical education.   She challenges career gender stereotypes and breaks the glass ceiling for women. Samanthaadvocates for healthy living to reduce preventable chronic disease and resilience to overcome whatever life throws you. As a woman of colour born to migrant parents of a mixed marriage, she advocates for diversity, inclusion, and anti-discrimination.  She is a three-time International Amazon No1 Best Selling author of: The No Recipe Cookbook – a cookbook for people who don’t cook, When I’m a Surgeon – The first in the Inspirational Careers for Kids picture book and activity book series, and  Book Three; When I’m an Astronaut, following Book Two; When I’m an Entrepreneur. Samantha was one of four finalist nominees for SA Australian of the Year 2022, and a SA Finalist in the Telstra Best of Business Awards 2023 in two categories, Championing Health and Accelerating Women.

    25 min
  2. Building and motivating high performing teams with Pollyanna Lenkic

    16/07/2023

    Building and motivating high performing teams with Pollyanna Lenkic

    Pollyanna is one of Australia’s leading professionals in creating high-performance cultures that transform results. For the past 20 years she has supported clients across Govt, Blue chip Corporate, NFPs and Mid-tier professional services organisations. She achieves this by helping her clients to develop consistent high-performing teams, elevating leadership capability, lifting employee engagement and maturing the potential of all. Among her accomplishments are building a multi-million-pound business from the ground up, author of the book Women & Success, she was a regular contributor to Australia's best business blog, SmartCompany for 13 years writing as their expert on teams, a regular contributor to Arianna Huffington’s Thrive. She is the author of Women & Success: Redefining What Matters Most at Home, at Work and at Play. Pollyanna is committed to the work of advancing the conversation, collaboration and co-creation of a gender-balanced world. To change the narrative and responsibility for fixing our systems globally, she works with both women and men with a groundbreaking transformational Gender Equity solution where collective wellbeing is at the forefront.  Pollyanna had a conversation with behind closed doors' Founder and Managing Director, Donny Walford, where she talks about empowering women through helping them thrive in the work they do. Ready to be inspired? Wait no longer and tune into our latest episode of Women On The Move featuring Pollyanna Lenkic now!

    18 min
5
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3 Ratings

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Women On The Move shares remarkable stories from women who have achieved significant milestones in their professional careers. These inspirational women explain the highs and lows, the devastating failures and incredible successes, and the invaluable benefit that comes from developing a support network to guide you on your business journey. Hosted by Donny Walford, Managing Director of Behind Closed Doors. Donny navigates these insightful conversations, drawing on her first hand experience working with boards, executives, senior management and business owners. Women On The Move is a podcast for women looking for guidance with their professional development and future career path.

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