Sally Browne Travels from VIC
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Sally Browne's Biography
Sally Browne has
lived life to the full… Hers is a fascinating story.
From humble
beginnings, to designing high fashion, and on to high altitude adventures, from
taking to the stage as a washboard player with a jazz band to strutting the
stage as a Keynote Speaker, from being a stressed out working mum of four to
developing the first heart rate monitor to measure stress, and from community
worker and philanthropist to mentor and nurturer for young business people.
Sally is a walking example of ‘don’t just dream it, do it (and go for it!!!)’.
Perhaps Sally’s fashion career started at 13 when she began
playing the washboard with the Red Onion Jazz Band and made a new ‘frock’ each
Saturday to wear on stage later that night. She was proud to be beatnik and a
jazzer in this era. Sally completed her schooling and went to work at the Lucas
Factory on Flinders Lane sewing French designer labels under license for elite
and elegant boutiques in Melbourne. She was taught her skills by the wonderful
Kitty La Haive.
Sally is committed to
encouraging and mentoring the next wave of business leaders. She personally
mentors a number of young business people and she was the founder of the
Business World Young Heroes Awards. At a business level she is involved with
‘Community Capitalism’: converting corner milk bars into hip organic cafés and
unused buildings into creative spaces for young people.
Sally is also
committed to living sustainably and she enjoys cultivating her own edible
patchwork vegetable garden. She loves the sensory pleasure of combining flowers
and vegetables, the joy of toiling in an organic garden, the meditation of
planting, the thrill of harvesting, the responsibility of collecting her own
water and recycling vegetable waste through a worm farm. The delicious delight
of home-grown food is often shared with Sally’s friends over dinner!
Also close to her
heart is the time spent with a special group of young women known as Girls
Without Mummies. (Young women whose mothers have died). They meet regularly to
chat, laugh, cry and share over dinner at Sally's home. The women, in their
20’s and 30’s, talk informally with Sally about careers, relationships,
weddings and babies. Sally is working on expanding this precious network.
Sally is an Australia
Day Ambassador, serves on a number of committees and boards and is involved in
fund-raising for many charities and in giving back to the community via her
philanthropic work and charitable trusts.
Sally Browne has been
hailed as an energetic, enthusiastic and entertaining speaker. Her keynote
addresses are filled with earthy humour, personal experiences, pertinent
anecdotes and different perspectives. Sally’s broad and diverse experiences, in
life, in business and in outdoor adventures have created a spectacular career
for her in public speaking. Her presentations focus on “Living and Working to
your Full Potential in an era of Challenge and Change”.
Sally believes we
will never achieve what we are capable of achieving if we are stuck in our
comfort zone. She challenges ‘the wee small voice’ that holds us back and, in
fact, sabotages us. She confronts fear of failure, self-doubt, and limiting
self-talk and inspires us to reach beyond our tipping point, freeing us to jump
into a bigger, brighter, better, more positive and productive life. Her
understanding of embracing and celebrating challenge, her grip on the
unpredictable world we live in, her belief in developing resilience (the
capacity to bounce back) and her strategies to be a victor of change, not a
victim of change, make her a thrilling and inspiring speaker. She has
empowered, entertained and encouraged women in business, business leaders,
educators, community, retail, local business people and attendees of corporate
conferences.
Overall, Sally’s
greatest delight and luxury is hanging out with her partner, her four children
and their partners, and her young grandchildren: enjoying family dinners,
gatherings and the occasional holiday together. More recently in 2015, Sally
has been studying 3D printing, with a focus on printing food and shoes for her
grandchildren.