Keynote: Mia Handshin, LeadersHP
Host: Miranda McDonald, Executive Director: People, Talent & Culture
Facilitator: Rachel Randall, Senior Consultant: Learning & Development
Target group: Senior women staff (HEO8+ and Level C+)
Date: Thursday 7 March 2024
Duration: 2 hours (10:30am - 12:30pm)
As part of our committment to creating an environment in which talent thrives and difference is valued, and in recognition of International Women’s Day the University’s Enterprising Women’s Development Program is proud to invite senior women staff to attend a senior women’s networking event to kick-off the year by coming together, recalibrating and reminding ourselves of what’s important.
To help us do that, we look forward to hearing from accomplished keynote and South Australian leader Mia Handshin for her thought provoking and thoroughly human keynote ‘Leadership Kintsugi – highlighting the cracks with gold’
Inspired by Kintsugi, the ancient Japanese art and process of mending broken pottery with lacquer and gold, Mia gets breathtakingly real as she shares the behind-the-scenes story of how she broke down, cracked open and eventually broke through to find the “gold” in some intriguing leadership situations.
Mia Handshin is an engaging facilitator, insightful coach or mentor, an experienced and compelling speaker and an aspiring author. A lawyer by training, Mia spent the first decade of her career writing a weekly column and blog for ‘The Advertiser’ newspaper in SA. She worked in the law in South Australia and spent time at the International Crisis Group (ICG) in Brussels.
In 2007 she was a candidate for Federal Parliament, went on to work as a policy adviser to a Federal Minister for Sport and then as an Associate Director at a national Government Relations and Strategic Advisory firm.
Between 2012 and 2016 Mia chaired the Board of the Environment Protection Authority in addition to working for The Leaders Institute for SA.
Mia has experience as a Trainer in Wellbeing and Resilience at the SA Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) and is an accredited practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP).
She is also a single mother to three children, a meditator, avid bush walker and loves to sweat-it-out doing hot yoga.