Meet your hosts and co-founders

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  • Samantha is Global Senior Visual Merchandising Manager at R.M. Williams. She is a luxury retail specialist and sought after stylist. After a six year stint in Singapore as Head of Visual Merchandising for global luxury brand PRADA, Samantha returned home to Sydney and wanted to re-connect with professional women on home ground.

    Samantha knows the power of a good collaboration, good conversation and supporting other women in business.

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  • Karen is the founder of PR and publicity agency eckfactor. She loves a good lunch, invigorating conversation and an opportunity to meet new and interesting business people. She co-founded Collabor8Women to get out of the home office and connect with great minds over good food.

    Karen is the Founder and Presenter of The Power of Visibility, designed to help professionals raise their profile for business success and to enable organisations to create an effective culture of visibility.

Collabor8Women was an idea that came about from wanting to get all these incredible women I was meeting together in the same room. To ignite ideas, to spark interesting conversations while enjoying incredible food and hospitality.

Samantha Theron

Taking time out to focus on your personal brand is important. Even taking time out to simply THINK helps. We all need some space to be creative, to brainstorm and to collaborate. We can do more together than on our own.

Karen Eck

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