She's Motivated Annual Conference 28 October 2010

Keynote Speaker Mai Chen will speak on how to make being different your friend and her ten key tips to becoming the best in your field and staying there.

Mai Chen is a founding partner of Chen Palmer, New Zealand Public Law Specialists, Barristers and Solicitors, Australasia's first public law specialist firm, which she co-founded in 1994. 
 
Chen Palmer was voted best New Zealand Public Law Firm in the New Zealand Law Awards and runner-up in the best Boutique Law Firm category in 2007 and again in 2008. Mai has particular expertise inconstitutional and administrative law, judicial review, regulatory issues; public policy and legislative solutions.
 
Formerly a Senior Lecturer at Victoria University Law School, Mai sits on the Securities Commission. She is President of the Harvard Law School Alumni Association (New Zealand), and a member of the Asia New Zealand Foundation. Mai is an Associate Member of the New Zealand Advisory Board of Trade and Enterprise's Beachheads programme. Mai is Chair of the Inaugural Board of the Global Women Project, a member of the World Class New Zealand Network, and was a judge for the 2008 World Class New Zealand Awards. She was also a finalist in the Veuve Clicquot Award 2008 for the top New Zealand Businesswoman.
 
Mai has a First Class Law Honours degree from Otago University, a Masters degree from Harvard Law School, is a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Management, and an Honorary Associate of Auckland University of Technology.

Keynote Speaker Gabrielle Hervey is the Managing Director of World of WearableArt. Born in Timaru, Gabrielle went to high school in Dunedin and then after graduating from Canterbury University lived and worked overseas for nine years including an interesting role with the Broadcasting Service on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Moving back to New Zealand in 1987 to raise her family with her American husband, she became instrumental in the startup of Fifeshire FM in Nelson. Her next role was as the Development Manager for the Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology from 1997-2000, developing relationships between the institute and Nelson businesses. In 2000 Gabrielle returned to the United States to take up a PR role in Washington DC.

She was invited to return to NZ to take on the role of CEO of WOW Ltd. She now lives with her husband on a “lifestyle block for a Labrador” on the shores of the Waimea Estuary, in Nelson. Her two children- George Juliana live and work overseas.

During her nine years with WOW® the company and the show have been through a significant growth period. Gabrielle has been instrumental and a key driving force behind the growth, and has seen the show evolve into a profitable business enabling it to grow both creatively and commercially.