2025 SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENTS...
LEADERSHIP PANEL:
Aiming high – building a successful business
The team at Bold Steps are delighted to announce the Leadership Panel for Bold Steps 2025 – Dame Ranjna Patel, Founder Tamaki Health and Gandhi Nivas, Sinead Boucher, Owner and Publisher Stuff Group, Cecilia Robinson, Founder and Co-CEO Tend and Jason Boyes, Chief Executive Infratil.
This group of successful business leaders will explore how they have followed their ambition, from founding new businesses, to leading with ambition and reimagining their business for the future. Facilitated by Jolie Hodson, come and listen to this impressive group of leaders.
Meet the Leaders returns
After the success of last year's Meet the Leaders session, the team at Bold Steps are delighted to announce its return – a unique opportunity to network with some of New Zealand’s most influential and successful leaders.
This is a fantastic networking opportunity for our Bold Steps community to chat and learn from some of New Zealand’s most high-profile leaders.
Leading through turbulence:
How to turn headwinds to tailwinds
The team at Bold Steps are delighted to announce Sarah Robb O'Hagan, most recently CEO of EXOS, currently on the Board of Jet Blue, and prior to this with Gatorade, Equinox, Nike and Virgin, as a speaker at Bold Steps 2025.
Sarah Robb O’Hagan is a high-energy combination of disruptive business leader, fitness fanatic, and cheerleading mom. She's been named among Fast Company’s “Most Creative People in Business” and Forbes "Most Powerful Women in Sports”.
Sarah is also the author of Extreme You: Step Up. Stand Out. Kick Ass. Repeat.
‘Leading through turbulence: How to turn headwinds to tailwinds’ – Sarah will share her experiences with huge business headwinds, lessons learnt about success in life and business and also giving some tactics on how to achieve high performance while reducing burnout in the workplace.
A journey with Anapela
The team at Bold Steps are delighted to announce Anapela Polata’ivao, ONZM, Actor, Director and Producer, as a speaker at Bold Steps 2025.
'A journey with Anapela' - Anapela will join Frances Valintine, Founder of academyEX, for a Q&A session. Anapela will share her upbringing in Samoa, creating the South Auckland theatre collective Kila Coconut Krew and her rise to become an internationally acclaimed actress. Her recent leading role in the feature film Tinā has garnered significant recognition.
Beam me up Scotty
The team at Bold Steps are delighted to announce Cathy Quinn, Chair of Tourism Holdings and Fertility Associates, Director of Fonterra, Fletcher Building and Rangatira, Pro-Chancellor Auckland University, as a speaker at Bold Steps 2025.
"Beam me up Scotty" – Cathy will share her experiences growing up in a small country town in a family of ten, her ambition to pursue a different path, and her successful career journey as a top corporate lawyer and current company director and chair of several major New Zealand companies. She will discuss the challenges she has faced throughout her life, including the joys of motherhood while balancing a demanding career.
Unleashing your potential
The team at Bold Steps are delighted to announce one of our founding members, Silvana Schenone, Managing Director and Co-Head Investment Banking NZ at Jarden, as a speaker at Bold Steps 2025.
Silvana’s presentation, Unleashing your Potential, will discuss the importance of seizing opportunities despite the challenges they often come with. How resilience and inspiration are all part of the road to success and the importance of owning your own career development and choices.
Announcing our MC
The team at Bold Steps are back for 2025 and we are have some exciting speaker announcements for the Bold Steps 2025 conference.
We are delighted that the fabulous Dame Therese Walsh, a key member of the OnBeingBold team, will be your MC again and she will set the scene for a fantastic day of speakers, summarise the key insights from these sessions and share her own thoughts for realising your ambition. Of course she will also have a few audience surprises to give away.
