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Guest Speaker:
Sandra Sully – Journalist CH 10
Venue: Henry Bucks (Flagship Store)
Ground Floor, 320 Collins Street
Melbourne Victoria - Click here for map
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April Fool, Ambition, Assault & Terrorism:
A serendipitous journey that proves an April fool, who lacks ambition, can combine a strong work ethic with a little assault and bullying, and couple it with a terrorism turnaround to even surprise herself.
Sandra Sully
Sandra Sully has cemented herself as one of the most recognisable faces on Australian Television.
Sandra is enjoying her 16th year as the national anchor for Network Ten's Late News with Sports Tonight. As well as presenting, she is also the show's Senior Editor and plays an integral role in producing and compiling the bulletin.
Her extensive journalistic career is littered with highlights but perhaps none are more significant and poignant as the September, 11 terror attacks. With calm and poise,
Sandra was the first person to tell Australia about the tragic events unfolding before her eyes while delivering a professional news bulletin on the world's worst terrorist attack. Most recently, Sandra travelled to Borneo for the documentary, Sandakan – Sheer Bloody Murder. It tells the tragic story of overwhelming hardship and horror faced by Australian POWs, who were forced to march from their camps at Sandakan across the country of Sabah in one of the greatest atrocities of the World War Two.
Sandra also hosted COOL AID: the National Carbon Test which featured her exclusive interviews with Al Gore, former US vice president and creator of An Inconvenient Truth, and Australian of the Year Tim Flannery. In 2005, Sandra spoke with Douglas Wood in TEN's exclusive, world-first interview with the Australian hostage freed from his kidnappers in Iraq.
Sandra was also on air in 1997 during one of Australia’s worst natural disasters, the Thredbo Landslide. Like New York, this horrific piece of news was delivered professionally under difficult conditions.
She has subsequently covered the anniversary commemorations of both the Bali Bombings and September 11 tragedies.
Sandra's versatility has enabled her to cover numerous events for the network including becoming the first woman to co-host Australia's national iconic sporting event, The Melbourne Cup and was part of the coverage for seven years.
Sandra has also hosted the prestigious Australian of the Year Awards with Prime Minister John Howard for the last five years in Canberra.
Since joining Network Ten in 1991, Sandra has been an integral part of the news team, covering elite events such as reporting on the 1996 Atlanta Games and in 1994, covered the XV Commonwealth Games in Canada. Coupled with this, Sandra co-hosted Good Morning Australia in 1992 and was co-anchor for the FIRST AT FIVE news hour in 1993.
Sandra began her career with TEN in Canberra working at the parliamentary bureau. Her passion for politics led her to host the 1996 Federal Election.
In her spare time, Sandra is heavily involved in a number of charity organisations. She is on the Women's Advisory Board for the National Breast Cancer Centre, a position she has held for five years, is co-patron of Spinal Cure and is a member of the Carbine Club, an organisation that raises money for Kids Sport.
Sandra's passion for news has cemented her position as one of the finest newsreaders in the country, delivering the Ten Late News with integrity and credibility.
Caroline Aebersold - Chief Executive Officer, The Song Room
 Caroline Aebersold is a well respected leader in the not-for-profit sector having worked in leadership roles for over a decade. She has particular expertise in governance and organisational development, working with vulnerable and marginalised communities, education programs and suicide prevention. Having studied sociology and psychology, then qualifying as a Psychologist, Caroline worked in a range of areas including direct counselling work, teaching specialist skills to mental health professionals, managing community health services, as well as working as a strategic / management consultant to corporate and government clients on a number of large, national projects. She has also served on a number of not-for-profit boards, including The Song Room prior to her appointment as CEO and currently as the Vice Chair on the National Board of Suicide Prevention Australia.
Caroline is currently the CEO of The Song Room, who provide long-term intervention programs to over 200 disadvantaged and special-needs communities across Australia. Under her leadership, the organisation has had in excess of 10-fold growth in 4 years and has raised over $10million dollars to now deliver programs nationally to 20,000 children every week. The success of the organisation has come from a well designed, targeted strategic plan, exceptional organisational structure / governance and innovative program design. The unique program model is not only innovative, but rigorous, sustainable and thoroughly evaluated, and is managed and delivered by a talented team of national staff.
Caroline is recognised for her expertise in strategic policy and program development and in working collaboratively towards meaningful community outcomes with various Government Departments and Community Organisations. Caroline also has an active interest in the relationship between community programs, social justice and Law. She is currently completing a Master of Laws at Monash University and has worked on a range of projects in this field through her career, such as national consulting projects with the Family Court and in Family Law reform and she also established and Chairs the National Committee for Standardised Reporting of Suicide working with the Coroners Courts and other stakeholders.
In her spare time Caroline trained and competed in martial arts for the past 15 years, was the Australian Women's Wushu (Kung Fu) Champion in 2000, was ranked number 4 in Australia as a fighter in Muay Thai (Kickboxing) and won an inter-continental title in 2004. She remains involved in the sport as the Vice Chair of the Women's Board for the International Federation of Muay Thai.
ABOUT THE TIPPING POINT SERIES:
This event is the result of conversations with Australia's most admired entrepreneurs and business leaders. Their experiences during their careers in both prosperous and challenging times has amounted to unrivaled wisdom. Is it wisdom alone which constitutes the fabric of leadership?
The common thread lies in a specific event which was the change agent in each of their careers - The Tipping Point.
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