The document summarizes an upcoming event discussing diversity in retail leadership. The event will feature a panel of prominent female retail executives who will share their experiences growing brands and careers and discuss how to best tackle diversity in the industry. It provides details on the event agenda, speakers, location and registration information.

1. With 85% of household buying decisions in the hands of females, why do we not have more brands led by
females nor more female executives across established brands?
Is this a question of diversity in the workplace and how can leading brands tackle this public issue?
As part of our ‘Women in Retail Tech Breakfast’, leading retail executives will share their views on retail, advice
on how to grow your brand and career and how to best tackle diversity in the marketplace.
MEET THE SPEAKERS:
AGENDA:
TICKETS:
10 May 2017
8am–11am
Beta Bar & Gallery
238 Castlereagh St. Sydney
Registration and Coffee
Panel Discussion and Keynote
Networking
Close
7.30am–8.15am
8.15am–10am
10am–11am
11am
GOLD PARTNER: SILVER PARTNER:
REGISTER
CHRISTINE
CORBETT
KATE
MORRIS
Chief Customer Officer, Australia Post CEO and Founder, Adore Beauty
Christine Corbett is an accomplished and highly
versatile senior executive with extensive experience in
delivering strong financial and people outcomes in the
retail, eCommerce, consumer services and logistics
sectors.She is an experienced professional with a
successful track record in managing large and
complex teams to drive a balance of commercial,
customer and stakeholder results. Christine is a
business strategist with demonstrated capability to
deliver an enhanced customer experience across
multiple channels and to deliver new revenue streams
in both mature and emerging markets. She is also a
multi-faceted stakeholder executive with a proven
capacity for building strong relationships across
industry bodies, unions and government.
Beauty advocate Kate Morris, CEO and founder of
Adore Beauty started Australia’s first beauty e-commerce
site in 1999 from a garage in Melbourne at the age of
21. Starting with just $12,000 and two little known
cosmetic companies on board, Adore Beauty has
since grown to more than 160 brands, 12,000 products,
and hundreds of thousands of customers. A university
job on the cosmetic counters led Kate to realise that
most women found department stores intimidating
and unpleasant. Kate was inspired to create a disruptive
beauty shopping experience that empowered consumers.
Adore Beauty has been scooping up accolades,
making the lists for Deloitte’s Tech Fast 50 Australia
and Tech Fast 500 Asia-Pacific for the last three years
in a row, as well as the SmartCompany Smart50 in 2016.
LANA
HOPKINS
MARK
COULTER
AMANDA
GREEN
WENDY
JOHNSTONE
CEO and Founder, Mon Purse
CEO and Co-Founder, Temple & Webster
Head of eCommerce & CRM, L’Oréal Australia
Vice President of Marketing, Asia Pacific, Salesforce
Multi award-winning Lana Hopkins is CEO and Founder
of Mon Purse, the world’s first design-your-own leather
handbag and accessories brand to scale mass
customization. Lana founded Mon Purse in early 2015.
The company was born out of Lana’s inability to find
the kind of handbag quality and design to satisfy her.
She saw an opportunity to create a disruptive model
to provide fully customisable leather handbags that
target the affordable luxury handbag market. Lana
was previously at News Ltd, and a Founder of an
e-commerce start-up which was sold prior to Mon
Purse. Mon Purse sells to over 35 countries globally
and online and has partnered with iconic global
retailers Bloomingdale’s, Selfridges and MYER as well
as Laura Brown (Editor in Chief, InStyle USA) who
created her own custom collection. The latest Mon
gallery has recently launched in San Francisco, being
the largest store yet at 850 sq ft opposite Louis
Vuitton, replacing Dior in the iconic department store
Bloomingdale’s.
Mark is the CEO of Temple & Webster and co-founded
the business in 2011. Mark has a background in digital
media from his previous role at News Limited. He was
also one of the founding directors of NORA. Temple &
Webster is a homewares and furniture retailer which
acquired the Australian arm of Wayfair and Milan Direct
in 2015 and listed on the Australian Stock Exchange
that same year.
Amanda Green’s passion for eCommerce started when
moving to Sweden in the late 1990’s during the Internet
boom. After a career as a Financial Controller she
changed focus and gained her Masters of Science
(eCommerce) in Ireland. She then relocated to the
Netherlands to work on the establishment, and later
production, of the first Nike Online store for Europe
incorporating both NikeStore and NikeID and covering
multiple languages and currencies. A move back to her
home country of Australia saw Amanda work in various
online roles with market leaders in Financial Services
and Marketplaces. But it was the role at Nike Australia
managing the Online business that established her as
an eCommerce leader, and saw her grow the business
nearly 15 times over in the space of 4 years. Since
leaving Nike, Amanda has taken on a new challenge to
develop the Luxury Division of L’Oréal Australia’s
eCommerce business and since joining in June 2016 she
has launched two new websites with two more to come
in 2017.
Wendy is a senior marketing leader with over 20 years
experience in driving high performance integrated
marketing teams in EMEA and APAC with leading
technology companies like IBM, EMC and now Sales-
force. In her current role, Wendy leads the marketing
team across Asia Pacific for Salesforce. In her role,
Wendy helps CMOs across APAC put the customer at
the heart of their business and to drive digital transfor-
mation in their organisations. With a strong passion for
workplace diversity & inclusion Wendy is also the APAC
executive sponsor for gender diversity at Salesforce.
BETA BAR
How diversity can supercharge your retail performance
NORA Members: $30
Non-Members: $60
Register before 30 April and receive a personalised gift from
Mon Purse. Choose from either a black card holder, or a
small black pouch. (Registrations after this date will receive
a voucher to claim their gift in-store).
PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO A HIGH LEVEL OF INTEREST IN THIS EVENT SEATS ARE RESTRICTED
TO RETAILERS ONLY, AND PRIORITY IS GIVEN TO NORA MEMBERS. THERE IS ALSO A LIMIT OF
3 X TICKETS PER ORGANISATION.
100% of proceeds go to the McGrath Foundation.
A NORA ‘WOMEN IN RETAIL TECH’ BREAKFAST – IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SALESFORCE AND BRAINTREE