Planning for International Women’s Day 2026 starts now—and so does securing the voices that will move your audience. The theme Balancing the Scales calls for bold storytellers, change-makers, and innovators who push for a fairer, more equitable world.
Jacinta Tynan is an Australian journalist, author, presenter, and life coach with a career spanning over 25 years.She has anchored for Sky News Australia and reported for ABC TV.Jacinta contributes columns to publications like Sunday Life Magazine and Body+Soul, focusing on motherhood and spirituality.She has authored several books, including 'The Single Mother's Social Club.'
Jacqueline Cornaby is an international speaker, life coach, and former lead coach with Anthony Robbins’ organisation. Known for her empowering mantra “Get to Good,” she inspires audiences to live boldly and align with their highest potential. Her bestselling book and dynamic presence make her a powerful voice for personal transformation.
Jacqui Cooper, a five-time Winter Olympian and World Champion aerial skier, is renowned for her resilience, world records, and extraordinary comebacks. Now an inspiring keynote speaker, she empowers audiences to embrace bold goals, resilience, and fearless mindsets. With authenticity and high energy, Jacqui's transformational message challenges people to reimagine their potential and take bold action.
Janine Allis is founder of Boost Juice Bars, which has more outlets in more countries than any other juice bar in the world. Janine is amongst Australia's most respected business women, having been presented numerous retail, franchise and business awards. In 2014, business magazine BRW named her one of fifteen people that changed the way Australia does business in the last 35 years. Her vision was to ?do retailing differently?, delivering a unique customer experience based on the ?love life? philosophy. In 2000, the first Boost Juice opened its doors in Adelaide, South Australia. Five years later, Janine and her husband Jeff wanted to expand the Australian business. They knew the solid platform they created for Boost could support new brands because it enabled maximum growth potential. The first acquisition was in 2007, a four-store Mexican food business, Salsa's Fresh Mex Grill, which has grown to 49 stores Australia wide. Boost's holding company, Retail Zoo, acquired CIBO Espresso in December 2012. This Italian espresso bar franchise has 24 stores with expansion plans in place for the west coast of Australia. In 2014, Retail Zoo launched Hatch, chicken concept stores. There are almost 7000 people working across the four businesses under the holding company Retail Zoo of which Janine is executive director. Retail Zoo turned over $230 million in the last 12 months. Based in Melbourne, Janine is a working mother of four. Janine is an advocate for a healthy lifestyle ? she maintains a five-day-a-week yoga practice and she is a very average surfer and tennis player...but loves both. Janine is actively involved in the continued growth of Boost, its international expansion and other special projects such as writing a book The Secrets of My Success and the story of Boost Juice ? Juicy Bits and All (2013).
Jessica Rowe is an accomplished journalist, television presenter and three-time best selling author. Jessica's credits include co-hosting Studio 10, Weekend Sunrise and the Today Show. She was also the anchor on Network Ten's First at Five News for 10 years.
A self confessed 'crap housewife', Jess has gathered a strong and loyal following with her #craphousewife movement, uniting and celebrating other mothers who, like Jess, sometimes feel like they are not the perfect mother, wife or cook. With humour and honesty, Jess shares her amusing misadventures on Crap Housewife.
Jess has teamed up with her best friend and TV icon, Denise Drysdale, for a new weekly podcast titled One Fat Lady and One Thin Lady. Recorded live at Jess? dining room table, Jess and Denise compare their very personal, hilarious and candid tales of family, work, relationships and all the bits in between that we call ?life.?
Jess is also a passionate advocate for mental health awareness, having herself experienced post natal depression. Jess is an ambassador for beyondblue and a patron of Mental Health Australia. In 2015 Jess was honoured as a Member of the Order of Australia for her mental health advocacy work and her contribution to Australian media.
A dynamic and engaging young speaker, Jodie Fox is a new breed of entrepreneur for the social media age, an authentic voice that your business can't afford to ignore! Having gained global recognition for co-founding Shoes of Prey it might come as a surprise that "Fashion Designer" isn't her first career (finance lawyer), or her second (advertising account manager)...and she did it all before 30.
Julia Ross is the founding Managing Director of Australia's largest independent recruitment company. The company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange in September 2000 and at that time was the largest ever female-owned company to float on the ASX. She remains the majority controlling shareholder. Julia opened her first office in Sydney in 1988, with a staff of one. Today Julia Ross Recruitment is successfully represented in all Australian states and territories and the United Kingdom, with eleven branches.
An internationally sought after speaker and author, Kath has worked with and consulted to some of the biggest and most well-known companies and brands in the world to help them achieve perspective, resilience, good culture, wellbeing and of course, kindness. Through her company Kind GroupTM she has built and designed tools that assist organisations and individuals to capture and understand their personal and collective strengths. Kath develops custom keynote messages, programs, and coaching programs to inspire your organisation and create lasting impact.
In September 2013 my husband Ralph and I, co-founded ?The Thomas Kelly Youth Foundation? (TKYF) a charity that was formed following the murder of our 18-year- old son, on his first night out in Kings Cross on a Saturday in July 2012. Making that awful decision to switch off Thomas? life support, to donating his organs ? the media called us the ?epitome of courage upon courage?.
Dazed and raw from losing our first child, we were then confronted by a lack of justice in our courtrooms. We were told, ?never to expect justice? along with 25 other families in the room that night who also had experienced
murder. From the Supreme Court to the Court of Criminal Appeal to finally the High Court ? we knew that amendments had to be made for victims. Advocating to three Attorney General's over 3 years, amendments and
new laws were introduced.
