Vanessa Liell
Vanessa Liell
Rethink Everything Partner & Co-founder
Vanessa is a strategic communications professional, CEO and entrepreneur with a 25 year career leading Australian creative communication agencies.
In 2022, she co-founded sustainability creative company Rethink Everything in 2023 and corporate advisory Orizontas to solve complex business problems by integrating creativity and imagination to create positive and sustainable change. This followed over a decade as shareholder and CEO of Herd MSL, one of Australia's largest and most awarded integrated communications agencies acquired by top five global advertising group Publicis in 2017.
Vanessa a member of Chief Executive Women, an active Non Executive Director and Casual Academic at UTS Sydney's School of Communications. She is the winner of B&T's Women in Media PR Leadership Award, a Fellow of the Public Relations Institute of Australia and an inaugural Walkley Foundation Women in Media mentor. Industry recognition for her agency's work include multiple Cannes PR Lions for Creativity, Australian Agency of the Year awards and 30+ campaign awards. Qualifications include Masters of Business Administration (MGSM), BA Communications (CSU-Mitchell).
In 2022, she co-founded sustainability creative company Rethink Everything in 2023 and corporate advisory Orizontas to solve complex business problems by integrating creativity and imagination to create positive and sustainable change. This followed over a decade as shareholder and CEO of Herd MSL, one of Australia's largest and most awarded integrated communications agencies acquired by top five global advertising group Publicis in 2017.
Vanessa a member of Chief Executive Women, an active Non Executive Director and Casual Academic at UTS Sydney's School of Communications. She is the winner of B&T's Women in Media PR Leadership Award, a Fellow of the Public Relations Institute of Australia and an inaugural Walkley Foundation Women in Media mentor. Industry recognition for her agency's work include multiple Cannes PR Lions for Creativity, Australian Agency of the Year awards and 30+ campaign awards. Qualifications include Masters of Business Administration (MGSM), BA Communications (CSU-Mitchell).
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The Mobile Revolution: Your Role in Powering Our Planet's Future
TUE, OCT 17, 11:30 AM
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Globally, 50 million tonnes of e-waste will be produced this year; equivalent to the weight of all the commercial airplanes ever made. Amongst this waste are 5.3 billion discarded mobile phones that still have years of life left in them.
In a world where there are more mobile phones than people, we explore the impact of a simple behaviour change that can make a difference to everyone, everywhere. You will hear from the founder of one of the world’s largest environmental movements about his next challenge, as well as key Australian industry leaders who are making a positive impact on the world.
Join us as we launch a game-changing industry movement that will tackle this addiction to disposability, shaking up the mobile industry and activating worldwide change.
