Women in Business WA Woman of the Month
Woman of the Month - September 2010 
Name: Vicki Laws
Business: Spider Developments
Website: www.spiderdevelopments.com.au
Our September Woman of the Month is Vicki Laws from Spider Developments.
Spider Developments is a web design & software development company that Vicki launched after becoming disillusioned trying to find a company to develop a website to a clients specification, rather than the web designers specifications.
Find out more about Spider Developments & Vicki's secrets to being a successful business woman in today's society.
Woman of the Month - August 2010
Name: Michelle Farnan
Business: Momentum Wealth
Website: www.momentumwealth.com.au
Our August Woman of the Month is Michelle Farnan, a Buyers' Agent with Momentum Wealth. Momentum Wealth is a full service property investment consultancy dedicated to helping people accelerate their wealth through property investment. Michelle's aim is to provide clients the passion & desire to succeed in property to help them create long term wealth.
Find out more about Momentum Wealth & what makes Michelle an inspirational Woman in Business in WA. More...
Woman of the Month - July 2010 
Name: Mary Ann Pinto
Business: Lips that WOW®
Website: www.lipsthatwow.com
Our July Woman of the Month is Mary Ann Pinto, a SeneGence® Distributor trading as Lips that WOW®. Lips that WOW® offers a fabulous range of semi permanent & waterproof makeup that provide all you need to give your skin the finishing touches to enhance your beautiful skin. Mary Ann has worked her way up to become the Consulting Director of Distributor Development & Training for SeneGence® Australia.
Find out more about Lips that WOW® & what makes Mary Ann an inspirational Woman in Business in WA. Read more
Woman of the Month - June 2010 
Name: Rochelle Orr
Business: Hello Babe WA
Website: www.hellobabewa.com.au
Our June Woman of the Month is Rochelle Orr from Hello Babe WA. Hello Babe is an advertising tool for businesses who target new & expectant mum’s. The distribution of the Hello Babe WA Bag is through hospitals, clinics & doctors across Perth. In August we will be launching our Hello Babe WA Book at the PBC Expo, this book is full of hints, tips, articles, editorials & businesses for new & expectant mums.
Find out more about Hello Babe WA & what makes Rochelle an inspirational Woman in Business in WA. Read more
Woman of the Month - May 2010
Name: Dianne Fisher
Business: Allen Carr
Website: www.allencarr.com.au
Our May Woman of the Month is Dianne Fisher from Allen Carr. The Allen Carr clinics are the most successful smoking cessation clinics in the world and Dianne runs the West Australian and South Australian franchises.
Find out more about Dianne, Allen Carr & what makes her an inspirational Woman in Business in WA. Read more
Woman of the Month - March 2010
Name: Sophie Tedeschi 
Business: Quickmail
Website: www.quickmail.com.au
Our March Woman of the Month is Sophie Tedeschi from Quickmail. Quickmail is a family business specialising in direct mail solutions for WA businesses, where Sophie is the Marketing & Administration Manager.
Find out more about Sohpie, Quickmail & what makes her an inspirational Woman in Business in WA. Read more
Woman of the Month - January 2010
Name: Geraldine Henshaw
Business: Amies Divorce Settlement Solutions
Geraldine is passionate about helping people find their way through the legal maze without the expense & pressure of the legal system.
Find out more about Geraldine & Amies Divorce Settlement Solutions. Read more
Woman of the Month - December 2009 
Name: Bridget Standen
Business: Lock it Down
Website: www.lockitdown.com.au
Bridget Standen from Lock it Down is our December Woman of the Month. Lock it Down is a Perth company specialising in IT physical security kits.
Bridget is a great example of an inspiring, driven business woman. Find out more about Bridget & Lock it Down. Read more
Woman of the Month - October 2009
Name: Jane Willis
Business: Flourish Magazine
Website: www.flourishmagazine.com.au
Jane Willis is Editor/Publisher of Flourish Magazine as well as a family oriented mother to three wonderful girls.
Publishing WA’s most comprehensive lifestyle magazine for women over 25 Jane knows the importance of a healthy work-life balance. Juggling staff, deadlines, contributors and advertisers, Jane makes scheduling uninterrupted family time a priority.
Jane launched Flourish nearly five years ago. She had been looking for a quality local magazine offering fashion, food and lifestyle articles specifically for Perth and WA women and felt bombarded instead by global gossip and American fashion. And so Flourish was begun - offering a fresh approach to healthy, positive living and featuring local writers, businesses and flourishing women.
Woman of the Month - September 2009
Name: Kris Kern
Business: Kris Kern Naturopathy
Website: http://www.hormonehelpnow.com
Kris Kern is our September Woman of the Month. Kris runs a successful naturopathic practice in Mount Hawthorn where she helps many women to restore their health, happiness and sanity naturally, without drugs or hormones.
Kris's expertise is not limited to these areas because restoring the balance requires a holistic approach where all the causes need to be addressed including nutrition and lifestyle.
To find out more about the fantastic services Kris can provide simply click here.
Woman of the Month - August 2009
Name: Fleur Allen
Business: Interactive Arts
Website: http://www.interactivearts.com.au
Fleur Allen from Internactive Arts is our August Woman of the Month and Guest Speaker at our upcoming Cocktail Event. Fleur is an amazing woman, she is vibrant, creative, professional, energetic and determined. Fleur's business enables you to make having your own art collection a reality. If you live or work in an environment of blank walls and wish to portray your own personality or atmosphere, call Interactive Arts now.
Whether you have an existing art collection or not Fleur can help you find the artwork right for you. Interactive Arts has access to a diverse range of artists and a unique selection of art.
Woman of the Month - July 2009
Name: Sandra Foote
Business: Relish Gourmet Hampers
Website: http://www.relishgourmet.com.au
Relish Gourmet is Perth’s only Gourmet Gift and Experience Company. They have over 4 years experience delivering amazing gifts to Australian businesses. Not only can you buy a gourmet hamper online but soon they will be adding experiences online. These include:
• Winemaker for a day at a famous Swan Valley winery;
• Flight simulation;
• Cooking classes;
• Pamper packages at Perth’s leading Day Spas.
Woman of the Month - June 2009
Name: Concetta Sultan
Business: Admin Express Book-keeping & Administration Service
Website: http://www.adminexpress.com.au
Now celebrating her 10th year in business, Concetta Sultan founder of Admin Express Book-keeping & Administration Service proudly continues providing small to medium size businesses with useful and accurate financial information through MYOB book-keeping tools, systems and expertise needed to run a successful business.
Through her own vast business experience, book-keeping skills and organisational skills, Concetta and her team now assist her clients reach their full potential by providing accurate, reliable, on time, every time, efficient book-keeping and admin services. Her services and her ability to understand business owners and their needs, helps make running her clients business much easier for them.
Over the years she obtained a wealth of knowledge and practical know how and with this and additional training, she set out in 1999 to help other business owners to implement efficient procedures and systems that would not only carry out all the book-keeping obligations and requirements of a business, provide accurate reports for business planning and development, but also to set up easy to understand accounting systems.
Woman of the Month - May 2009
Name: Lizzie Skesteris
Business: Bang! Online Marketing
Website: www.bangonline.com.au
Lizzie started at Bang! Online Marketing in January 2008, with no prior experience in online marketing, has flourished into a skilled and knowledgable online marketer. In her time at Bang! Online Lizzie has acquired her Google Advertising Professional qualification and travelled to New York for Ad:Tech, a worldwide online marketing convention.
Bang! Online provides online/digital marketing services and products that help businesses of all industries realise their online objectives and deliver measurable results. Bang! Online does this by using technologies and techniques such as search engine optimisation (SEO), search engine marketing (Google Adwords), email marketing, online marketing consulting, online strategy development, conversion improvement and banner advertising.
Woman of the Month - April 2009
Name: Ava Lucanus
Business: Edge Telephone Training
Website: www.edgetelephone.com.au
Ava has always felt a strong passion for customer service and people skills and was naturally drawn to training, after three decades of working in customer service roles in the banking, retail and travel industries, as well as her own business in direct marketing and promotions.
Ava started training in 1999 to service the telecommunications industry, and by 2006, recognising the vast need for businesses to up-skill their staff in communicating effectively with their customers, had evolved the business to its current form.
Edge Telephone Training specialises in training businesses around people skills, whether it be over the phone or face to face. Ava has helped many Perth businesses to achieve their customer service standards, developing more profitable and rewarding businesses.
Edge is continually evolving, as good communication skills benefit so many areas in business - not only reception, but will enhance sales, despatch, accounts and the list goes on. Anyone who deals with customers in any area of the business will benefit from improving their skills, to maintain consistency, ensuring that every customer gets treated with the same positive attitude.
Woman of the Month - March 2009
Name: Karen Kotze
Business: The Bodhi Tree
Website: www.bodhitree.net.au
The seeds of The Bodhi Tree were planted in Karen's mind in 2003, and the last five years have seen the business grow slowly and steadily, from a glass cabinet full of books on the office wall in 2006, to an online bookstore in 2008, and finally maturing into a magnificent book café to open in Mt Hawthorn on 1st April this year.
Karen is passionate about the philosophy of The Bodhi Tree, with her core focus being to fill a need that exists in our community for a more purposeful and conscious way of life. So the book café is all about becoming more mindful of why we do things the way we do and questioning whether there is a better way - a way that can help others at the same time, care for the planet and contribute to our overall wellbeing.
Woman of the Month - February 2009
Name: Debra Webb
Business: Dictatum Transcription Services
Website: www.dictatum.com.au
Debra Webb operates Dictatum Transcriptions Services from her home in the northern suburbs. Deb started the business as she wanted the flexibility to work and to be available to care for her twin sons. What started as a small secretarial service, servicing local clients in 2007, has now blossomed into a national transcription service.
Dictatum offers an outsourcing solution to save businesses time and money as outsourcing your typing is a cost effective alternative to hiring permanent or temporary staff. We assist with small one off jobs, overflow typing or regular transcription services. Clients then only pay for our time, there are no costly staff fees or overheads.
Woman of the Month - January 2009
Name: Sharon Brown
Business: The International House of Feng Shui
Website: www.completefengshui.com
Sharon Brown was first introduced to Feng Shui in the mid 1990's, and after winning a trip to Singapore through a radio show, made the decision to take on Feng Shui as a career. Sharon's formal education into Feng Shui commenced with Master Raymond Lo of Hong Kong at the beginning of 2001.
Feng Shui is about improving and enhancing different aspects of a home or business, such as health, wealth and prosperity and to weaken negative influences; creating balance and harmony within the living and working environments.
Sharon's passion is Feng Shui and making a difference in other people's lives, homes and businesses. Her down-to-earth approach to Feng Shui is very realistic and practical, with the natural ability to simplify and bring about optimum results for her clients.
The International House of Feng Shui has grown enormously since its humble beginnings and continues to thrive, at the same time being creative and diverse. Sharon conducts seminars, courses and consultations with residential, business, commercial and corporate clients Australia wide with enormous success; 95% of her work comes from referrals.
Woman of the Month - December 2008
Name: Toni Richards
Business: Imagine You
Website: www.imagineyou.com.au
Toni's passion is helping women blossom to their full potential. Image is so important today professionally and socially since people make value judgements in less then 30 seconds. We have all learned to do this through the electronic media.
Her services include Total Makeover, Colour Analysis, Figure and Style assessment, Makeup application, Antiageing programme, Wardrobe audit, Personal shopping, Seminars and Workshops. Helping her clients develop their own unique style, that suits their face, body shape and lifestyle is what Toni loves to do with a passion. Her greatest pleasure is hearing them say, "I wish I had this done years ago!"
Woman of the Month - November 2008
Name: Christina Cabrera
Business: Blue Edge Financial Planning
Website: www.blueedge.net.au
Christina has been involved in investment planning since 1985 having worked as co-administrator of an international estate, where she was responsible for the management of estate funds for some years involving the analysis and evaluation of optimal investment options and taxation considerations spanning several countries.
Since 1991 Christina has worked as financial planner for the Challenge Bank and eventually TrustWest (BankWest), where she was responsible for giving comprehensive advice on all financial matters for clients of both banks and is now managing director of her on practice - Blue Edge Financial Planning.
Christina has a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Western Australia and holds a Diploma in Financial Planning from Deakin University. In 1991, Christina became one of the first 100 financial planners in Australia to be granted the designation of "CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNERTM" by the Financial Planning Association of Australia, which is the highest professional designation in financial planning, recognized world wide. The CFP certification is based on independently established standards designed to benefit the public.
Woman of the Month - September 2008
Name: Sara Hall
Business: Finer Details Personal Concierge Services
Website: www.finerdetails.com.au
Sara went into business in February 2007. "I started Finer Details Personal Concierge Services (Finer Details) because my own life/work balance was out of sync. I never had enough time to manage my personal affairs - what I call ‘life admin'. I realised there were many others like me out there and there was a real need for support and assistance. People are working longer hours nowadays, making it harder to successfully manage day-to-day living and still have a social life."
When Sara started Finer Details, she anticipated the majority of her clients would be Fly In Fly Out workers and busy individuals needing help to reduce their domestic workload. However, she has found the demand in today's marketplace to be much higher from businesses. Most of Finer Details' clients are small to medium sized businesses wanting help in their business and personal arenas.
"Amongst other things," Sara says, "we've helped with organising events and marketing material, purchasing gifts (in December we helped several clients to source, gift wrap and deliver Christmas presents for their clients in and around Perth) we've organised gifts for new mothers, booking and waiting for trades people, customised house-sitting while clients have gone away on business or holidays, and we ran personal and business-related errands for another business client who had undergone an operation which left her immobile for several weeks."
Woman of the Month - August 2008
Name: Sherryn McBride
Business: Marketing Talk
Website: http://www.marketingtalk.com.au/
Sherryn loves the variety of freelancing and the flexibility of working as a soloist. Since establishing her consultancy Marketing Talk in 2001, she enjoys reviewing how a business presents and tailors marketing materials to create or better promote a company image. As a copywriter she finds that a peak and tweak of marketing materials will instantly sorts the jewels from the junk, and often just planning a brainstorming session will get an owner's creative juices flowing again.
As proof that not all marketing is rocket science and not all marketing ideas are expensive, she conducts workshops and marketing tips presentations for industry groups. To help small biz owners promote themselves, she prepares a free monthly newsletter packed with simple practical and proven ideas that any business owner can replicate; and for the time poor business owner she is creating a series of marketing e-books, CD's and a DIY marketing tips book.
Woman of the Month - July 2008
Name: Anthea Moffat
Business: Business Fusion
Website: www.businessfusion.com.au
Anthea is the founder of Business Fusion, a training, coaching and coaching business that specialises in the needs of small to medium sized businesses.
Through workshops, coaching and consulting service she has helped hundreds of business owners to improve the performance and profits of their business and she won't be satisfied until she has helped thousands more.
In 2007 Business Fusion launched The Business Masters Club, a learning and networking club designed for motivated and passionate business owners who want to take their business to the next level. The Business Masters Club is growing fast, as is The Business Masters Program - a series of six one day workshops specifically designed to teach business owners how to take their business to the next level of success.
Her passion means Anthea sets herself a punishing schedule, presenting new workshops every month. In addition she also sits on the board of the Stirling Business Centre and is an active mentor to start up businesses. 
Woman of the Month - June 2008
Name: Helen Potter
Business: In Touch Physiotherapy
Website: http://www.intouchphysio.com/
Helen Potter is a Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist and owner of In Touch Physiotherapy in West Leederville. The business was launched formally in 2001 - having grown from a small part time clinic opened several years earlier to complement Helen's teaching and research commitments. Helen has advanced knowledge, extra qualifications and extensive experience.
In Touch Physiotherapy is now a dynamic centre of excellence for the diagnosis, treatment and management of complex and persistent spinal pain and headaches. In Touch Physiotherapy is known in WA for its high level of specific diagnosis, quality hands on treatment, information provision and consistent individual care. Longer consultation times and a friendly empathetic approach empower clients to become active partners in their recovery - reflecting Helen's passion to provide "more ways to help clients move well faster and stay well longer".
Woman of the Month - May 2008
Name: Anna Zammit
Business: Xsell
Website: www.xsell.net.au
Anna is the Managing Director of Xsell, a company that provides training and coaching. Xsell employs a team of sales specialists, coaches and trainers who cater for the corporate market. Over the past 8 years Anna has assisted many organisations grow their business by working with Management in the area of Persuasion and Influence to increase sales. Her excellent communication skills have allowed her to bring out the best in people. Anna is currently utilising these skills via a regular segment on breakfast TV in WA, which reaches in excess of 65,000 viewers daily.
Woman of the Month - April 2008
Name: Catherine Groppoli
Business: mini eco
Website: www.minieco.com.au
Launched in March 2008, mini eco takes organic fashion beyond its traditional hippy cliché of saggy, itchy and boring and finally brings to Australia gorgeously colourful and beautifully designed organic and fair trade baby and children's fashion from France, London, New York and more.
mini eco is an online retailer of high quality products that are made from organic fibres or other ecologically friendly fibres such as bamboo and hemp; and/or using fair trade principles. mini eco stocks baby and children's clothing (newborn upto size 12), bedding, toiletries and toys, as well as fantastic gift ideas and products for ladies (and even a few for guys).
mini eco invites you to challenge your perceptions about organic products. You will be amazed by the softness of the fabrics, their long lasting, easy washing nature and the range of fashionable, fun and funky designs available. To the already converted, you will enjoy discovering some new brands of organic products that you may have not seen before.
Woman of the Month - February 2008
Name: Sarah O'Leary
Business: The Brilliant Gift Box Company
Website: www.brilliantgiftbox.com.au
Launched in August 2007, the Brilliant Gift Box Company was created by Sarah O'Leary to provide online gift solutions for busy parents and professionals. Sarah recognised that many people like herself, due to work and family commitments, preferred to shop online rather than endure a mad dash to shops with kids in tow. She was, however disappointed with the quality and range of gifts available on line. Sarah has a passion to offer premium quality gifts designed to surprise and impress both the recipient and the buyer.
The Brilliant Gift Box offers a great range of gifts for new babies, children, women and men and all occasions. A fantastic bonus on the website is the free date reminder service that emails you when an important date is coming up. It's quick and easy to set up so you'll never forget those important dates again.