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 – Doing Good for the Not-for-Profit Sector

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Hosted by HerBusiness

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25 June 2010

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Amy Lyden, CEO of the Australian Scholarships Foundation is a multi-award winning business woman who is known for her expertise in online strategy and innovation.

 

Listen to this herBusiness interview with Amy Lyden to learn:

  • The role that innovation should play in any business
  • How education in the not-for-profit sector is set to benefit the rest of the business community
  • Why advocacy for women in business is important

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About the host

Suzi Dafnis

Hi there. I’m Suzi Dafnis, CEO at HerBusiness. My BIG passion is helping women business owners to grow and scale their business, so that they can create their ideal lifestyle and make a difference in the world. Every day I am inspired by the more than 30,000 amazing women (and men!) in our community and I love finding the best education, mentors, and resources from around the globe, to help them get the skills, knowledge, and support they need to succeed. It’s been my privilege to lead HerBusiness (formerly The Australian Businesswomen’s Network) for the past 23 years (two+ decades – WOW!) because, whilst I’ve enjoyed success in business, I’ve also experienced the highs and the lows – sometimes you can feel on top of the world and in control and other times you can feel isolated, exhausted and stuck. What has made the biggest difference for me has always been having great people around me and having a lifelong commitment to learning. That’s why I am so passionate about the work we do here at HerBusiness – providing a Connection Network for women in business to get the mentors, contacts, referrals, knowledge, and skills they need to grow their confidence, make more money, build their businesses, expand their network and create the lives they love. My entrepreneurial journey started in the spare room of my Sydney apartment in 1994 when my business partner and I started a boutique events company that represented speakers and authors from the USA, here in Australia. Over the years I’ve grown multiple multi-million dollar businesses in the events, publishing and education niches – with teams in Australia, New Zealand, and the USA. Not everything has worked and there has been a degree of trial and error, and a lot of bumps in the road. But I have always had a strong commitment to always surrounding myself with great mentors and like-minded peers – a Connection Network that I can depend on and who can depend on me to be there for them too. I truly do what I love, every day.  

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Amy Lyden

Amy Lyden

Amy has over 25 years of experience across small business, not-for-profit and corporate foundation sectors as a senior manager, founder and CEO in Australia and North America. She is currently Scholarship Program Director at Westpac Scholars Trust, which she joined five years ago during the setup of the Trust, a $100m gift from Westpac which now supports 100 Westpac Scholars a year, forever, across five scholarship programs. Amy has overall responsibility for the Future Leaders Scholarship and Research Fellowship programs, which award over $3m annually. From 2009 to 2015, Amy was the inaugural CEO of Australian Scholarships Foundation (ASF), an organisation dedicated to strengthening the not-for-profit sector by providing education opportunities. Prior to this, Amy took her own company, a pet products company, from concept to commercial success over 12 years. After growing the business to 2000 distribution outlets throughout Australia, NZ and Asia and online sales to 80 countries worldwide she sold in 2007.

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