Sonya Lennon
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A country agency because they think in different scale to us, you know.
So we broke away from them, called it work equal and also dress for success.
Men were allergic to it because they felt it was a kind of a woman's thing.
Whereas now we've had so much more men involved in it.
in both funding and service delivery.
Our board is 50-50, all of that kind of stuff.
And so now we get out into the regions, we hit town with a truck full of clothing, a gang of HR volunteers and career guides, and we can serve up to 200 women.
in a sitting, individually bespoke to their needs.
Well, we won two, actually.
We won our category, which was inclusive workplaces, and then nobody was more surprised than us to win the overall award because our team is tiny.
And, you know, I'm not operationally involved.
I founded it, I was on the board.
There's a team of four that create an infrastructure for
We've served almost 10,000 women back into work at this stage since we began.
And those numbers are growing year on year.
I'm so incredibly happy for the team and proud of what they've achieved.
So there's that part of you, the social entrepreneur, but then you keep the design side alive as well, don't you?
Well, I do, but how I frame design now in my life has very much changed.
So I suppose about three years ago, I realised with a bit of an epiphany that I was much more interested in concepts, positive impact and social change than I was in stuff.
So where I keep my design alive now is...