All posts tagged: Rural Communities

Julia Spicer - Engage & Create Consulting

#25 | Change-maker for Regional Business Futures with Julia Spicer

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Julia Spicer is a vibrant rural woman, a real Change-maker for Regional Business Futures. Growing up in a small rural community, Julia learnt from an early age the value of everybody contributing. Julia was named in the Top 100 most influential women in 2018 by the Australian Financial Review, has completed the Australian institute of Company Directors course and has held many roles and positions on boards at a local, regional, state and federal level. Founder of two regional businesses based in Goondiwindi, Qld – Engage & Create Consulting and the Goondiwindi Business Hub; Julia’s mission is to contribute to the vibrancy and viability of rural and regional Australia by helping businesses grow. She founded Engage & Create Consulting upon these principles – that by helping to achieve something much greater than ourselves and contributing our unique skills and leveraging our community, we bring together diversity and empower people to create their destiny. Engage & Create consulting helps rural, regional and remote businesses and nonprofits to grow! We do this by facilitating strategic planning sessions, …

Sarah Prime

#22 | Champion of revitalisation in rural communities with Sarah Prime

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Sarah Prime is an award winning social entrepreneur, speaker and change agent. In 2015 when she returned to her roots in Eyre Peninsula to find many communities had reached a tipping point of no return. This spurred her into action to establish the Champions Academy – an initiative to champion change in rural communities at the grassroots level. Her flagship program which was initially delivered through sporting clubs, is now a social enterprise in its own right, with programs and events for schools, government and a range of business and community groups. Champions Academy’s mission is to teach people how to recognise their human potential and show them how to apply it to a cause greater than themselves to catalyse positive change on the people and communities around them. Sarah is an authority on rural contraction, decline and exodus, and is widely regarded for her experience in community resilience, revitalisation and next generation empowerment. Sarah has also recently launched The Global Rural Community, this will be a place where visitors are able to connect directly …