BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA October 10 2011: Local students and budding
entrepreneurs, Zeenat Omar and Jessica Bryan from John Paul College, won
the ‘Tomorrow’s Entrepreneurs’ opportunity this year.
These Year 11 students were rewarded with tickets to the red carpet
gala ‘Telstra Business Woman of the Year Awards’ at the Sofitel,
Brisbane on Tuesday 11 October 2011.
They were joined by other students from across Queensland, including
Girls Grammar, State High and the Good Shepherd Lutheran College.
The girls will be accompanied by teacher, Mrs Jodie McLaren.
‘Tomorrow’s Entrepreneurs’ was been organized by Nicole Lander,
co-Founder of Battlefield Sports and winner of 2009 Telstra Queensland
Business Women’s Awards (Innovation).
“As a past Telstra winner, I wanted to share the excitement and
inspiration of the Awards with young students who could well be
‘tomorrow’s entrepreneurs’ – it is not every day that students get the
opportunity to network with, the most successful business women in
Queensland,” Ms. Lander said.
By attending the Telstra Business Woman of the Year Awards, the students
were exposed to successful business women who come from all walks of
life and who have achieved success in a wide variety of businesses.
Last year the JPC students also had the honor of meeting the Minister
for Climate Change and Sustainability, Hon Kate Jones MP [pictured below
with Nicole and the girls].
The winners are unified by characteristics such as vision, leadership,
integrity and generosity.
The winning students were introduced to the latest and previous
Business Women of the Year winners.
The students gained insight into the importance of building a network
of relationships; a network based on willingness to share, rather than
an expectation to gain.
Both students recognized that women can excel in business; men and women
can work together in the business world as equal partners.
