SO THAT'S US. UP THERE. FAR RIGHT.
Hatted, exhausted, exhilarated, graduating with our Master of Entrepreneurship after a massive year of learning, rising, falling, failing, brazening, building and launching girledworld at the University of Melbourne in 2016.
The extraordinary people we learned from, leaned on and worked alongside at the Wade Institute of Entrepreneurship, Melbourne Business School, Faculty of Business and Economics and in the 2016 Masters cohort shaped us and fuelled us in ways we're still unpacking. It is amazing watching what we're all doing now.
Since launching girledworld, it's been quite a ride.
Startups are like that. They take you up and down, a thousand times a day.
But we can't believe how far we've come. And where we're going.
And we know we wouldn't be where we are without a thriving village of awesomeness around us.
WE HAVE VERY big thingS ON THE BOIL.
A career education technology platform (watch this space for the launch of Future Amp in 2020), national keynotes, regional road shows and conferences around the country, collaborations, partnerships, meeting after meeting after late night after interns after team hires after snatched sleep after juggling kids and jobs and big vision and never enough hours in any given day…
But we do it. Like this. BECAUSE WE FOUND A BLOODY GOOD PROBLEM TO SOLVE.
We're building a new generation of THINKERS who can UNLEASH THEIR POTENTIAL TO step up, start up and skill UP for the future of work.
Following the sell-out success of the 2017 girledworld Summit at the University of Melbourne, which made news around the country and united 100’s of girls from 50 schools across Victoria and NSW with global STEM leaders, startup founders and amazing industry role models, in 2018 we took it to the next level for the girledworld WOW Summit 2018!
The 2018 Summit focussed on the World of Work and immersed girls in real-world problem-solving, enterprise skill-building and ignited Melbourne’s RMIT University city campus across one very big June weekend of hands-on learning!
In February 2019 we delivered the World of Work NSW Summit in partnership with the University of Sydney (read more here) and in May delivered the Geelong Innovation Summit in partnership with the Victorian State Government (read more here). In May 2020 we will deliver the Gippsland Digital STEM Summit with the Victorian State Government, and a Workplace Mentoring and Employability Skills virtual mentors program to give high school girls a chance to learn from leading women in industry.
Our Future of Work Summits and career education events are a transformative, exciting opportunity for high school and tertiary students to explore their passions, understand the new world of work - and connect with outstanding global industry role models, business leaders and career mentors to explore emerging technologies, STEM and the Future of Work. Plus, we get students to build employability skills and use Design Thinking to tackle the biggest global challenges!
Aligned to the Australian curriculum, girledworld's career education and employability skill programs are designed to empower, equip and educate students with the mindsets, skillsets and toolkits they’ll need to make informed choices about their future career pathways, and build their resumes with Micro-Credentials so they’re work fit and ready to unleash their potential!
girledworld also design and deliver Future of Work and Employability Careers Workshops to schools across Australia, engage with media, active industry partnerships, education campaigns and workforce skill-building programs. Please reach out here if you are interested in how we can work together to open access for today’s students to get the real-world learning, career skills and access to real-world mentors they need to get a head start on tomorrow’s world of work.
We look forward to you joining us as we build the next generation of leaders, founders and STEM trail blazers.
Yours in gratitude, growth mindsets and goal-setting,
Madeleine Grummet & Edwina Kolomanski
GIRLEDWORLD CO-FOUNDERS
The extraordinary humans who we learned alongside in the 2016 Master of Entrepreneurship, University of Melbourne, Wade Institute. Most of these trailblazers have gone on to found startups, take the TED stage, represent Australia at the global G20 Summit, lead Government strategy, drive innovation inside major enterprise, push status quo, break new ground, broker big ideas and unleash their potential to solve the world's most pressing challenges. We are lucky to count them as colleagues and friends.