The Southern Highlands Business Women's Network will host a lunch for International Women's Day on March 10.
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This year's theme is Challenge to Change.
The panel will be Kirstine McKay, Valentina Borbone, Caroline Marsden and Lisa Shepherd.
Kirstine McKay will also host the event and will interview three inspirational women and share their stories and ask for their advice on how everyone can play a positive role in a gender inclusive world.
Ms McKay is an international award winning journalist with more than 12 years experience as a television reporter and producer for Channel Nine.
Ms McKay also runs gardening and sustainability workshops through her business Life At Greenlaw, is one of the founders of WinZero - Wingecarribee Net Zero Emissions and is passionate about ensuring a vibrant future for all.
Panelist Valentina Borbone is the owner of local marketing group Banter Group. Ms Borbone helps businesses to achieve success by offering marketing support.
Ms Borbone the volunteer Chair for STaR Association and has recently joined the volunteer board of Pop In, a locally-based friendly drop-in and online service that empowers women and children to solve the problem of domestic violence, control and abuse.
Caroline Marsden will also be on the panel. Ms Marsden is the owner and director of Mt Gibraltar Pre School, where she is passionate about children's learning and development to establish skills for life.
The preschool has an outdoor / bushwalking / cooking experience philosophy which provides a sustainable environment for children's learning.
Ms Marsden has transformed what was once a struggling preschool into a successful business that employs 14 educators and is at maximum student capacity.
In 1975, at age four, Ms Marsden fled Vietnam after the fall of Saigon on a small and very crowded fishing boat. Rescued by a passing ship and then transported to a refugee camp, she spent the next six years awaiting a new home.
At age 10 she was finally given refuge in Australia, and was raised by her siblings until her father was able to escape Vietnam two years later and join them.
Lisa Shephard rounds off the panel.
Ms Shephard has lived her life in the fast lane. At age 22 she raced cars and went on to become a specialist in IT business solutions. Ms Shepard joined the family business which was heavily involved the aerospace and defence industries.
She then became a consultant for business software company which supported a wide variety of businesses from small to large organisations.
Ms Shephard really stepped on the accelerator when moto racing legend Wayne Gardner became a client and is now her business partner, for the past 12 years.
When she is not in the Highlands she may be found in Barcelona, Monaco or somewhere in Europe. She manages all of Wayne Gardner's personal and business activities, plus with Wayne runs a MotoRacing events business in the UK, is the business manager for Remy Gardner a MotoGP rider, is overseeing a large industrial complex development, was a researcher for the movie 'Wayne' and recently created a new business in Germany in the electric vehicle arena.
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