Are you jeopardising your investments?

CPA Women in Business Discussion Group will meet on 27th of March with Wai-Yee Chen on “Are you jeopardising your investments?” Wai-Yee is an author, TV commentator and Adviser in the area of investments.

In this session, Wai-Yee will help you manoeuvre the current investment climate, not just with information or advice, but by making you aware of who you are, for better investments returns.

Wai-Yee’s experience is gained from her time in the share market investing and advising clients in shares and derivatives in the last 14 years. Through observations of her clients with diversed personalities, she finds its not just techniques and knowledge that generate greater investment returns. Human behaviour and inherent personality of each individuals, play as much a role, if not more, in influencing investment returns.

To get the most from this session, attendees are advised to take a quick 5 minute questionnaire at http://www.personalitytest.org.uk/  and come with a printout of the results.

Female Leadership

We will welcome Suzanne Mercier to be our guest speaker on Female Leadership.

Suzanne Mercier is a highly experienced strategist, leadership champion and expert in the area of human potential and has been improving business and individual performance for more than 25 years. Her focus is on removing the barriers to performance for talented Leaders and Managers within organisations. As a result, she has improved employee engagement and enhanced performance at every level.

As the first female Board Director of George Patterson Advertising and a strategy planner for the agency, Suzanne worked to create maximum customer engagement for leading brands in banking, food, cosmetics, animal products, beverages, fine china and crystal.  

In her high level marketing roles with Coca Cola Amatil and Schwarzkopf, Suzanne was responsible for the launch of several well-known fast moving consumer go ods brands that remain on the shelves today. 

For 18 years, Suzanne has run her own business and for the past 13 years, has focussed on speaking, training, coaching and facilitative consulting to create sustainable and profitable businesses.  Her Clients come from a wide variety of industries including shopping centre management, financial services, technology, heavy equipment, health, fitness, cosmetics, commercial real estate, publishing and industry funds.

Suzanne develops and delivers transformational keynotes, activities-based workshops, facilitative consulting and Executive Coaching designed to identify and remove the barriers at all levels, to liberate leadership, improve management capability, lift sales results and identify potential to enhance business performance.

She is a thought provoking speaker and a published author.

Recap on September Session

On the 27^th September over 60 CPA Australia members enjoyed the panel discussion on Career Management at the NSW Women in Business Discussion Group. In attendance at the meeting was NSW Divisional Councillors Amy Wong.

The panellist included Dr. Margaret Drever, NSW Divisional President, Jen Dalitz, Founder of sphinxx, and Wai-Yee Chen, author of OptionsWise and options adviser with RBS Morgans, facilitated by Stella Petrou Concha, Co-Founder and Recruitment Director of REO Recruitment. They contributed to a collective shift in a handful of female members. Members went home with tangible examples of how to manage their career and what the attitude they need to stand out from the crowd.

Reignite Your Passion at Work and Home

The keynote by Shivani Gupa will be fun, interactive and thought provoking.  Bring an open mind to come and listen to hear Shivani speak and become more passionate about your work and home. 

Shivani is the CEO of Passionate People Institute, a company dedicated to creating more passionate people across the globe.  She is an expert at putting passion into work, life and organisations. 

She believes that in order to stay connected to your passion you have to overcome obstacles. Shivani has overcome her own obstacles including:  moving to Australia at age 11 and encountering racism; working in a male dominated environment at senior management. She gave up a highly successful career to dedicate it to helping others find their passion.

Prepare to Secure Your Perfect Role

Sally-Anne Blanshard returns to the "CPA Women in Business" networking group to present on the topic of Interview Skills. Some of you may be considering a change in career in 2012 and this presentation will give you the tools you need to prepare well in advance in order to secure the perfect role. Sally-Anne brings over 15 years consulting experience specifically in the areas of recruitment, talent management and coaching and always offers a session that is engaging, high energy and focused.

Sally-Anne's passion for helping people accelerate their job search is rewarded by an abundance of testimonials. Previously Career Coach for myambition.com and she now 'practiced what she preaches' by managing her own Career Coaching Consultancy - Nourish Coaching.

Connect to Sally-Anne in advance of the presentation and email suggestion of questions you find hard to answer. These will be covered off one by one on the night.

Stella Petrou Concha

Stella Petrou Concha is Co-Founder and Recruitment Director REO Recruitment.

Stella’s mission and purpose in life is to help others succeed. Initially starting a successful career in medicine, she quickly realised that the healthcare sector was not her true passion and soon found her love in recruitment. She started her recruitment career in a global finance and accounting recruitment agency. Stella quickly rose to the top in her field and became the recognised number 1 recruiter in the Asia Pacific district. With a large and loyal blue chip network Stella branched out on her own and became the co-founder and brain power behind the fast growing brand REO Recruitment.

REO Recruitment’s mission is to build teams, and build careers. It’s simply not enough for Stella to do business with you once. Stella’s true success has come from playing an integral role in developing organisational teams and opening doors for constant career laddering. With a proven track record in building the finance and accounting teams for many global blue-chip organisations, Stella has differentiated herself and REO Recruitment as a leading human capital management brand in the Sydney business arena.

Stella’s mantra is “When you succeed, I succeed”.

Wai-Yee Chen

Wai-Yee Chen is a CNBC and SKY Business Channel options presenter, author of OptionsWise and an options adviser with RBS Morgans.  Wai-Yee regularly contributes to magazines, blogs and speaks with investors at conferences, seminars and lectures. Wai-Yee is an advocate of using options to “arm you and not to harm you”.

Her experience in the Australian stock market started in 1996. In 2000, Wai-Yee joined Credit Suisse First Boston as a private client adviser before moving on to RBS Morgans in 2004 in a similar role. In January of 2011, Wai-Yee had the privilege of being a co-principal of Sydney Grosvenor office, one of RBS Morgans’ 55 managed offices across Australia. She is the Derivatives Head of the Sydney Grosvenor office, operating under the Financial Services License of RBS Morgans Limited.

Having advised for 14 years in the Australian equities market and lived through some significant troughs and peaks; Wai-Yee shares her learned knowledge including warts and all, and valuable options experiences with investors and clients through her book, lectures, articles and blogs. Wai-Yee is a CPA, a qualified financial planner with a Masters in Applied Finance from Macquarie University and is ASX Level 2 Derivatives Accredited.
If you would like to know Wai-Yee better, you are invited to visit her blog at www.optionswise.wordpress.com.