International Women’s Day: Get to know the women behind CORE Innovation
As an organisation we believe strongly in supporting women, especially in the largely male-dominated industries that we work across. We choose to challenge the norms in our industry by supporting women in the workplace, ensuring we provide platforms for female founders and by providing more opportunities in general for women in mining, energy and resources.
We are very proud to say that 80% of CORE staff are in fact female! Working across all levels of our business, including leadership, we thought we would take a moment to introduce the fantastic women who make CORE Innovation Hub the vibrant business it is today.
Tamyrn Barker, Co-Founder & CORE Skills Lead
Tamryn is a co-founder of CORE Innovation Hub and now heads up the CORE Skills program, helping big businesses understand and better embed data science best practice within their organisations.
Her impressive career spans international development, diplomacy and technical experience and knowledge of business and innovation strategy from working on complex and multi-stakeholder projects across industries on four continents over 15 years.
Tamyrn is passionate about and committed to finding new ways to link established business with the talented entrepreneur community in Australia. She co-founded and built CORE Innovation to help foster an open, collaborative and problem-solving community to support the resources and energy sector power the enterprises of tomorrow.
Renee describes herself as a business growth leader and communications wizard with a master of storytelling and has marathon-level stamina for creating, improving, implementing and monitoring operations.
Renee is the manager of CORE Innovation Hub overseeing all the day-to-day operations and running of our business and helping to power the human enterprises of tomorrow in the mining and energy sectors.
Renee is a well-rounded professional with an impressive career spanning marketing, HR and innovation. Her broad background spans multiple industries including automotive and academia, with specialist expertise in managing research and innovation hubs. Renee is helping to take CORE Innovation to new heights in 2021 and beyond.
I see IWD as an opportunity to celebrate the women I look up to and let them know how important their leadership is today and in the future. So I #choosetochallenge you to send out kudos to a determined female leader in your life today.
Renee Hakendorf, National Innovation Hub Lead
Anna Golubkina, Financial & Management Accountant
Anna is the woman that keeps the light on at CORE Innovation Hub - literally. Anna is a highly experienced ASA CPA with more than 10 years of Australian and International experience.
Passionate about innovation and efficiency, Anna looks after CORE’s end-to-end finance function from accounts receivable and payables to statutory reporting and forecasting, budgeting and reporting - there isn’t a spreadsheet without Anna’s name on it!
Libby describes herself as a middle(wo)man, a person who acts as a strategic intermediary to ensure CORE and our partner organisations are being talked about within the marketplace.
A self-prescribed marketing geek, Libby has a passion for creative branding and storytelling. She brings to the table experience across all marketing functions from content production to events, digital communication and branding. Libby’s diverse marketing career spans more than 10 years working across not-for-profit and corporate sectors with experience in fashion, youth homelessness, wellbeing and telecommunications.
She is a creative individual who loves helping to bring CORE to life through the development and delivery of our marketing and communications strategy.
For me, International Women’ Day is a time of reflection, not just on how far we have come, but how much more we can do to achieve gender diversity in society as a whole. I choose to challenge gender roles and stereotypes, today and everyday.
Libby McMichael, Marketing & Communications Lead
CORE Innovation Hub are champions of women across our industries. Alongside our proud female-led business, we have been lucky enough to support the advancement of women through initiatives such as our Core Sprint Female Founders Program in 2020 which featured seven up-and-coming women-led businesses and hosting events and masterclasses with inspiring female leaders such as Dr Carla Boehl. We are also proud to partner with the likes of Alex Blood, Executive Director of Mineral Resources with the South Australian Department of Energy and Mining, leading the way for women across the resources sector and Foundation Partner of CORE Innovation Hub in Adelaide.
As a team, we look forward to continuing to showcase women and making sure their work is recognised and amplified because a diverse industry is better for us all.