Telstra Best of Business Awards 2024
- Ingrid Bayer
- Nov 30, 2024
- 2 min read
After being named State Winners, we spent the week in Melbourne as we were judged on the national stage at the Telstra Best of Business Awards in the ‘Accelerating Women’ category.
What an absolute honour and privilege to stand shoulder to shoulder with Australia’s leading small businesses.
We were thrilled to represent VA Institute as a go-to resource for the emerging Virtual Assistant Industry in Australia, and to highlight in detail the amazing opportunity for women to utilise their skills and experience to build a business that not only delivers freedom, flexibility and choice, but provides a low-risk, low-cost pathway out of workplace toxicity, exclusion, adversity and gender bias into a solid and sustainable business that delivers real income and independence.
VA Institute isn’t just a business; it’s a movement creating a legacy of empowered women across Australia – one that is reshaping futures, one woman, one family, one community at a time.
While we didn’t bring home the national award, we did make some amazing new business connections that will ultimately feed into the future opportunities for growth and development of not only VA Institute, but our growing Virtual Industry as a whole.
Such a valuable experience full of ‘a-ha’ moments and opportunities to think ‘outside the square’ – total business gold for us.
Huge thanks go to:
Telstra for putting on these amazing awards!
Our wonderful judges – Matt Coates: Technology Lead - Accenture ANZ; Dr Zoe Condliffe: Founder & CEO - She's a Crowd / Director - Raise the Crowd Studio; Div Pillay: CEO - MindTribes / Co-Founder - Culturally Diverse Women. It was such a privilege to be in the same room with you all
Our fellow finalists – you’re all absolute champions, and we’ve loved getting to know you
Our husbands and families who are our greatest cheerleaders
Katrena Friel for believing in us and being our rock
Our amazing VA Institute Team – we love you!
Our industry supporters and wider community – you ROCK!
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