COURSE FACILITATORS
Justine Baker
Coming from a family heavily involved in the wine industry, Director and Hospitality Consultant and former Solotel CEO, Justine Baker, believes women play a vital part in the future success of hospitality businesses.
Creating opportunities for women to develop and succeed in hospitality remains at the forefront of her approach to business.
Justine operates a boutique consulting business focused on the hospitality industry, sits on the Advisory Board for Quantaco and is the Non-Executive Director for Yalumba/S Smith & Sons.
Justine is a strategic leader with a proven ability to innovate and break down complex problems to create strategies that drive evolution and ongoing business success.
She is a champion of women in business, leading the evolution of workplace culture driven by shared values, a clear purpose with direct link into performance.
At the Board level, Justine brings a unique mix of experience in customer centricity, leading strong culture, diversity & inclusion and the use of data & insights to enable decision making. Having led business through digital transformation of systems architecture and customer innovation projects, she understands where the value lies and which risks to prioritise.
Gill McLaren
Gill is the Founder & CEO of Syntegrate Consulting, Strategy and Coaching. She is also the author of Think.Plan.Live, an Executive Coach and a Keynote Speaker & Facilitator.
Gill is a passionate about individuals and teams discovering their uniqueness to amplify their strengths. She translates that into individual coaching, authentic leadership and women in leadership programs.
Gill has adapted strategic planning approaches from the business world and applied them to create a unique coaching and personal consultancy approach that enables her clients to achieve success in all aspects of their life.
Gill is the Founder & CEO of Syntegrate Consulting, Strategy and Coaching. She is also the author of Think.Plan.Live, an Executive Coach and a Keynote Speaker & Facilitator.
Gill is a passionate about individuals and teams discovering their uniqueness to amplify their strengths. She translates that into individual coaching, authentic leadership and women in leadership programs.
Gill has adapted strategic planning approaches from the business world and applied them to create a unique coaching and personal consultancy approach that enables her clients to achieve success in all aspects of their life.
For the 20 years, before starting Syntegrate, Gill worked in executive leadership roles across the UK, Australia, Malaysia and Singapore in the areas of General Management, Strategic Planning, Commercial, Customer and Marketing at Coca-Cola.
Her career journey has provided deep experiences of different functions, different countries and cultures and enabled Gill to work with a highly diverse range of colleagues and friends from all over the world.
In her practical coaching and personal consultancy, she brings this experience to her clients through pragmatic, practical and real-life examples.