Celebrating our Community Quiet Achievers

When: March 7, 2025

Where: Brisbane, Australia

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Manly Harbour Village Chamber of Commerce hosting their third IWD Breakfast recognising our extraordinary women within our community that don’t seek the accolades or exposure, but have an incredible story to share.  How they strive to inspire others and make this community a better world to live in. The quiet achievers.

Our MC Caroline Starecky is the founder of Leap Lab, a Brisbane-based strategy and business coaching advisory firm dedicated to helping female founders, entrepreneurs, and leaders leap into further growth and success.  With over 20 years of experience in business strategy, a master’s degree in international marketing, and 14 years as a senior lecturer in strategy and innovation, Caroline brings a wealth of expertise to empower women in business to take bold steps, break barriers and create greater impact

Deborah Bauer is a designer with over 15 years’ experience and a passion for art, architecture and creativity, (in all its forms), her mission for Urban Metal is to enhance experience and drive human to human connection through design. Elevating spaces to bring people together.  Deborah’s approach is unique in that all designs are built through innovation, experience and collaboration. Connecting people with space and place, fostering human connection. Deborah dives deep into story-telling to create a narrative for the artwork.

Hayley Colbert, Practice Owner Bayside Optometry.  After growing up on a cane farm in North Queensland, Hayley moved to Brisbane to study Optometry at Queensland University of Technology. In 1997 she followed a nice boy (who she ended up marrying) to the wilds of North West Australia. It was during this time she became involved in Indigenous eye health, visiting remote communities around Kununurra and Katherine and her interest in the effects of diabetes on the eye was fostered.  In 2013, Hayley, back in Brisbane and with four kids at school, was looking for her next challenge. When Paul and Cecile, the previous owners of Bayside Optometry, decided to retire she leapt at the opportunity to own her own practice and the rest is history.

Join us for Breakfast at the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron, 6.30am for a 7am start, with a finish time by 9am.