This year’s Queensland Law Society International Women’s Day Breakfast keynote speaker, Div Pillay, says she was once considered “too diverse”.
The CEO of MindTribes, an equity and inclusion management consultancy, is this year’s featured speaker at the QLS event on 5 March at Brisbane City Hall.
Ms Pillay said she was looking forward to the speaking at the event.
“There was a time not so long ago where I was considered too diverse to engage with an audience,” she posted. “Depends who’s in the audience I guess.
“Legal systems have the power to change societies and influence other big systems, who gets access to health, education, social systems. Can’t wait to join the conversation.”
Driven to address workplace inequity, Ms Pillay also recently posted: “We need to collectively address only five per cent of senior leaders come from a culturally or racially diverse background.
“Ask the right questions to spark change in your workplaces.”
Through her consultancy and social enterprise Culturally Diverse Women, she supports boards and executive teams across the public and private sectors to build more inclusive and equitable workplaces.
Before founding MindTribes in 2012, she spent 14 years in people and culture roles working across Australia, Asia and South Africa.
Ms Pillay is committed to working with businesses to co-create systemic and sustainable change so their workforces reflect their communities and customers they serve.
Born, raised and educated in South Africa, she draws upon lived experience and weaves in elements of education through scenarios, encouraging audience members to reflect and consider steps that can be taken to combat bias.
For the past decade, Ms Pillay has researched the covert nature of negative behaviours at work, as experienced by women, migrants, refugees and asylum seeker professionals.
The breakfast brings the legal community together to celebrate the contribution of women across the profession.
Registrations are open with limited seating. This event sells out each year.
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