A passion for change

CEO and co-founder of The Social Deck Kate Bowmaker has been announced as the latest guest speaker at the Ripple Effect Women’s Summit.
Kate runs an agency that helps organisations engage with people and communities in actions that have a positive impact on society and the environment.
Currently, Kate is working with the Department of Social Services to manage media and communications for the government’s intake of 12,000 refugees fleeing conflicts in Syria and Iraq.
Throughout her vibrant career, Kate’s spent time bringing together governments with not-for-profit and community organisations on issues such as refugee settlement in Australia, violence against women and their children, Closing the Gap in Indigenous disadvantage and World Heritage recognition and protection for some of Australia’s most iconic places.
After working for more than 15 years as a communications adviser and director across different levels of government and the diplomatic corps in Australia, Kate and her partner traveled to New York in 2011 and co-founded The Social Deck.
They worked and volunteered with social enterprises and innovators seeing first hand new ideas, enterprises and ways of working to tackle global and local issues. This set the focus for The Social Deck’s establishment in Australia in 2013.
Today, Kate’s an advocate of driving local solutions, believing that communities should be better supported (and funded) to enable change within their own communities.
She’s working both locally in Noosa, and at the federal level in Canberra, to improve collaborations between organisations and individuals who can and want to enable positive change.
Kate will join fellow speakers Noosa resident Wendy Wilson and keynote speaker Julia Baker, at the Ripple Effect Women’s Summit, Noosa’s first major International Women’s Day event that will be held at The Big House in Pomona on Wednesday 8 March.
The day aims to bring together women from the community to learn more about business, share their wants and needs and develop networks.
There are two sessions on offer; the Dream it, You Can Achieve it seminar from 9am to 1pm followed by the Creating a Thriving and Vibrant Community workshop from 1.30pm to 3.30pm.
Tickets are just $35 per person for the morning session and $10 per person for the afternoon session. Tickets can be bought online at register.canbook.me/windos-event