Nominees Category: Diversity

Tracy is a tenacious and driven marketer at Informatica with over 20 years of experience in tech. She believes in using integrated data across business applications to align marketing strategy with the buyer’s journey, for the main purpose of spurring business success.

To Tracy, inclusive leadership should include:
– Commitment to improve diversity and inclusion and treating all team members with fairness and respect.
– Courage to admit that you don’t have all the answers on what needs to change or how to change it.
– Awareness of bias as an individual and as an organisation and having an understanding of different kinds of personal biases and learning to self-regulate.
– Curiosity and openness to different ideas and perspectives to continuously learn and improve.
– Cultural intelligence and confidence to lead cross-cultural teams.
– Collaboration and building trust so everyone feels comfortable speaking up and empowering teams to handle difficult situations.

Leading a collective of over 80 creative production specialists from all over the world and walks of life, Joanne is truly passionate about diversity and inclusion because her agency lives it every single day. She believes that building a rich, inclusive and strong culture helps any agency create a better work environment. Employees who are accepted for who they are regardless of race, age, gender, sexual orientation, religion or disability feel valued and respected, which leads to greater collaboration and creativity. Her policy is simple – leave your egos, preconceptions and biases at the door. We are a safe place for people to thrive.

Our mission is to “shape the next era of media and make advertising work better for people”. For us ‘People’ means our clients, our partners, the community, but most importantly it starts with our people and ensuring that our differences and diversity make us stronger. We want to be the group that is most representative of the rich diversity of the Australian population – where everyone belongs.

In Australia our industry is underrepresented when it comes to diversity. To help tackle this, we developed ‘Better for All’ – a multi-year Diversity, Equity and Inclusion strategy designed to ensure that we are living our mission and delivering tangible impacts. Our DEI approach goes beyond gender equity, and covers 6 dimensions of diversity: First Nations (indigenous), LGBTIQ+, Gender Equity, Disability, Cultural diversity and Generational diversity (age).