THE WORKSHOPS
Kapacity.org is delighted to offer Perfect Pitch – an innovative and intensive professional development workshop, delivered in partnership with Speech Pathology Tasmania.
Perfect Pitch helps participants transform their effective communication when speaking to groups.
Perfect Pitch breaks down anxiety, builds confidence and enhances poise.
Places are limited to 16 participants per workshop.
Who should attend? Women from any background or sector, who are motivated to improve their professional impact through better presentation.
ENDORSEMENTS:
‘We want to see more women enter – and indeed excel in – our parliaments, boardrooms and leadership roles across all sectors in Australia. I welcome Perfect Pitch as an innovative program that seeks to empower women to find their own, confident voice.’– The Hon Julie Bishop MP, Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs 2013-18, and Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia 2007-18
‘For years, we have had to explain why the unequal representation of women in leadership positions is an issue and why it makes economic and social sense to seek change. Now there is recognition that we have a serious problem and it affects all of us – women and men. Perfect Pitch is empowering women to voice their solutions, to the benefit of all society.’ – Natasha Stott Despoja AM, Australia’s former Ambassador for Women and Girls and Chair of Our Watch
‘The Women’s Leadership Institute Australia was set up to address the inequality of power and decisionmaking between men and women in Australia. Good leadership skills include, most importantly, the ability to communicate effectively and with clarity. Perfect Pitch provides the foundational skills to achieve this.’ – Carol Schwartz AM, Director of Stockland, Founding Chairman of Women’s Leadership Institute Australia, Chairman of Our Community
‘Australia has an enviable record of political and economic reform. But we continue to fall behind our peers on the most basic measures of equality — the rights of women. Our grand egalitarian project will remain incomplete while the better educated half of our population are denied a fair share of the leadership positions in parliament and business.’ – George Megalogenis, journalist, author of Australia’s Second Chance and recognised as Australia’s ‘best explainer’
‘Robust engagement with gender challenges is a top priority for anyone serious about Australia’s future. Perfect Pitch empowers a diverse range of women to learn to speak more effectively about what really matters to them – and in turn, to all of us. I strongly support this initiative.’ – Michael Cooney, National Director of the Australian Republican Movement, and former speechwriter to Australia’s first woman Prime Minister, Julia Gillard.
‘The under-representation of women in leadership positions in business and government detracts from Australia’s overall well-being, and from the success of individual organisations. That should concern men as well as women. Perfect Pitch is a program that helps women to be stronger advocates in their own cause – adding value to organisations and to our entire community.’ – Saul Eslake, former Chief Economist of Bank of America Merrill Lynch Australia and of the Australia & New Zealand Banking Group, Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Tasmania
Perfect Pitch is also delighted to receive this message of support from the Premier of Tasmania, The Hon Will Hodgman MP:
‘Perfect Pitch is clearly making a significant and positive difference in the lives of a number of women with unrealised leadership potential, by providing them with practical and accessible strategies for their personal development. Congratulations to you and Rosalie.’
THE PRESENTERS
Perfect Pitch is co-created and jointly facilitated by Natasha Cica and Rosalie Martin.
Natasha is a lawyer and executive adviser who founded Kapacity.org – which works globally with leaders, teams and organisations to enable change. She was recognised in 2013 by The Australian Financial Review and Westpac banking group as one of Australia’s 100 Women of Influence, in the category of innovation, and was an inaugural Sidney Myer Creative Fellow. Natasha has extensive experience as a professional communicator across corporate, public sector, community and educational sectors in Australia, Europe and the Western Balkans. In 2017-18 she was CEO of Heide Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne.
Rosalie is a speech pathologist and founder of Speech Pathology Tasmania, criminologist and Courage & Renewal facilitator. She is passionate about working with adults and children to improve and perfect their communication skills. Rosalie recently was recognised as Tasmania’s Australian of the Year for 2017, for her pro bono work supporting literacy in Tasmania’s prison population.
Natasha and Rosalie connect around a shared commitment to opening new opportunities, advancing social justice in practical ways – and enabling open and restorative dialogue across difficult divides.
PERFECT PITCH IN AUSTRALIA:
Perfect Pitch has been presented in Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart and Launceston – with the generous support of Heide Museum of Modern Art, Fairfax Media, La Trobe University, Avalon Retreats, Stillwater, and the Women’s Leadership Institute of Australia.
Special guests have included:Kate Warner – Tasmania’s first woman Governor Lara Giddings – Tasmania’s first woman Premier Elise Archer – Tasmania’s Attorney-General Minister for Justice, Corrections, Environment and the Arts, and the first woman Speaker of Tasmania’s House of Assembly Jacquie Petrusma – Tasmania’s Minister for Women, Aboriginal Affairs, Disability and Community Development, Sport and Recreation Alison Standen MP – Labor Member for Franklin and Perfect Pitch alumna Joanne Gray – Editor of AFR BOSS Lindley Edwards – Group CEO of AFG Venture Group Julianne Schultz – Founding Editor of Griffith Review Caro Llewellyn – Director, Experience & Engagement at Museums Victoria and Founding Director, 20 Square Feet Productions (New York and Paris) Rebecca Huntley – Social researcher and writer Clare Wright – historian and public intellectual Padma Raman – Executive Director of the Australian Human Rights Commission Kate Jenkins – Australia’s Sex Discrimination Commissioner and Board member of Carlton Football Club Robin Banks – Tasmania’s former Anti-Discrimination Commissioner 
Brett Torossi – Founder, Avalon Retreats Mary Massina – CEO of Macquarie Point Development Corporation Angela Driver – General Manager of Tasmanian Leaders Ruth Langford – Tasmanian Aboriginal community activist Jane Bennett – Managing Director/CEO ofTasFoods Ltd,former Board member of the Australia Broadcasting Corporation and Tasmanian Ports Corporation
Robyn Kronenberg – former president of the Alliance of Girls’ Schools Australasia Bernadette Alibrando – Founder, walk-to-art and Public Programs Manger, Heide Museum of Modern Art Emma Hope – communications professional, and The Mercury‘s former tourism reporter – click here to read Emma’s news story about Perfect Pitch Sue Jenkins – paediatrician Tori Hodgman – broadcaster, barrister and comedian Jan Davis – agribusiness and government relations consultant Catherine Hurley – former Head of Regional Content at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Julie Szego – freelance journalist and author Blanka Dudas – fashion industry leader and founder of I Came By Boat Lilly Brown – emerging Indigenous leader and Charlie Perkins Scholar Maria Tumarkin – cultural commentator and educator Emma Dawson – Executive Director of Per Capita Amanda Ducker – Associate Editor of The Mercury Sue Neales – national rural and regional affairs reporter at The Australian newspaper Janet Carding – Director of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Alison Stone – Tasmanian Aboriginal educator and advocate Jessica Manuela – dentist and Tasmania’s 2018 Young Australian of the Year
Pro bono places in the Perfect Pitch workshops have been provided by the Museum of Old + New Art, corporate adviser Narelle Hooper ( co-author of New Women New Men New Economy), Font PR, and lawyers Alec Leopold SC, Leanne Norman, Marcus Pesman SC and Dr Paul Vout.
TESTIMONIALS FROM PARTICIPANTS:
I really loved the time spent on this … looking at myself from a different angle. I found the exercises on the throat and voice projection very practical and helpful. The activities were gentle and well thought out, with a clear outcome.
I have to confess I had visions of the usual “stand here, say this, talk now, don’t talk now”, stage-between-us, standard presentation lecture. Having worked hard to escape from the corporate mold in my life, part of me was apprehensive. Perfect Pitch … was none of those things. It was intimate. Subtle. Big picture ideas and simple truths tied softly together with ribbons of practical information.
This is awesome, I really recommend this to anyone [wanting] to improve their public speaking.
Excellent practical wisdom and strategies. Strengths I can take back to my workplace to encourage women.
I have learnt so much from this workshop … It’s really empowering to be invited to contribute to a circle that has a shared respect and purpose.
Loved the diversity of the group, especially the Indigenous participation.
[I] was expecting the usual teaching of practical tools. Very pleasantly surprised about what the sessions delivered. Tools to support self reflection and the beginnings of learning how my behaviours are limiting my power to influence. Excellent workshop that I would highly recommend – thankyou for a thought provoking experience.
Very early on [this workshop] triggered quite an acute and personal response. Marrying tactics and skills with more abstract and open invitations to respond I think will provide shifts I can’t yet articulate. Having felt mute and voiceless it is encouraging to be given an opportunity to think about the context in which I operate as being more flexible and within my control.
I wasn’t sure what to expect and am thrilled at what the day turned out to be. Incredible opportunity to reflect on my inner self – I know I will come away with lifelong tools to be a better communicator via self awareness, self confidence and self respect. Thank you! P.S. What an AWESOME group of women!
Personally I have found the day: Challenging – as an opportunity for self reflection. Energising – in meeting ‘new’ women and sharing/listening to their exciting stories of struggles and success. Educational – in gaining new tools and skills for self-improvement.
I loved Perfect Pitch. It caused a chain reaction of actions from me post the day which sorted out a few inequities at work. So thank you.
I feel I have grown and experienced a lot since [participating], and navigated myself much closer to the place I want to be, and I think it comes down to perfecting my pitch – or close enough – in terms of articulating to myself and then to the powers that be my chosen direction and then making a good case for it!!
[Perfect Pitch] blew my mind and gave me insights I never knew I could get from an event like this. Highly, highly recommend you go.
