Annual Conference
"Inspire" 2010

The inaugural annual conference has been designed to inform, motivate and stimulate business women in Otago and Southland. Attend our conference with other like-minded business women in Otago and Southland for the amazing opportunity to hear some of the country's brightest women share their business success stories and advice drawn from their own experiences.

The goals of the She's Motivated Conference include empowerment; helping women grow their career; provide a forum
for networking and sharing of experiences; and provide practical workplace information.

There are limited spaces for this unique event so don't delay and REGISTER NOW.

For more information call 455 5165 or email info@shesmotivated.org.nz

Notable Speakers:

Mai Chen LLB (Hons) Otago LLM (Harvard) FNZIM
Founding Partner of Mai Chen will speak about "How to be the Best and how to stay there."
How to be 'different' and her ten key tips to becoming the best in your field and staying there.

Gabrielle Hervey, Managing Director, WOW® Ltd will give an insight on the World of WearableArt. The
Montana World of Wearable Art Awards Show is best described as a glorious rebellion against the mundane.
Each year nearly 40,000 people attend the sell out event in Wellington.

The other notable speakers are Helen Anderson, former CEO of the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology, Helen Cunliffe, Agency Manager, Business Mentors NZ, Karyn Chalk, Consultant, Changing Ways, Karen Bardwell, Managing Director, Select Recruitment and Anita Greene, Owner, Reflect Image Consultanting will discuss Corporate Wardrobe.

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.