Ronni Kahn, Founder of OzHarvest, was awarded the Australian of the Year Local Hero award for her generous work. OzHarvest is a charitable organisation which has, over the last six years, delivered more than 5.3 million free meals to people in need.
Ronni, a long-time event organiser saw, on a regular basis, the waste of food that occurss daily at restaurants and hotels. She committed using her business and logistics experience to make a difference to those most in need of the very food that was being throw out by the truck-ful. In this interview Ronni shares her story and success strategies. We look at:
- How Ronni took her event management skills to relationship management and the production of a valuable outcome for Sydney’s hungry.
- The role of corporate social responsibility
- How being awarded Australian of the Year Local Hero has impacted OzHarvest
- The business lessons Ronni has learned in her years in business
- The role of passion in business success
