Professor Susan Moloney is Director of Paediatrics at Gold Coast University Hospital.

Susan left Bowen in 1981, studied Medicine at UQ and attended The Women’s College for three years, where she was Student Club Vice President (1983) and on the UQ Student Council. She trained in Paediatrics in Brisbane.

Susan has achieved many leadership roles. She was involved in the commencement of new medical schools at Griffith University and Bond University, the development of tertiary children’s services at the Gold Coast, and has national and international leadership roles in child health.

Susan was President, Paediatric and Child Health Division, Royal Australasian College of Physicians, an International Examiner for the Indonesian College of Pediatrics, and has been on several Commonwealth Advisory Groups, including appointment to the Independent Health Advisory Committee ‘Medivac Panel’ assessing the medical response to offshore detainees in PNG and Nauru. She is an Operation Smile international volunteer.

Susan received the RACP College Medal and Queensland Health Pre-Eminent Specialist status.

Jacqueline Schultz has crafted a career in law that has seen her excel in legal roles in Australia, the United Kingdom and Mexico City.

In Australia, Jacqui worked for a national law firm in their construction team, but after being invited to undertake a secondment with Virgin, she realised that she wanted to be in a big business rather than in a big law firm and it wasn’t long until she accepted a role as an in-house lawyer with a major mining company. Jacqui rose through the ranks and was soon running a national legal portfolio.

It is through her work as a Director on the Board of Brisbane Women’s Club – one of Queensland’s oldest clubs – where Jacqui has made an enormous contribution to the women of Brisbane. She works tirelessly at the grass roots level to raise funds, coordinate goods drives and provide educational and networking opportunities to help women come together.

More recently, she was nominated for the QLD Day Awards for rallying together a group of  local people to support a flood victim in distress.

Leigh McCready pivots daily between her roles as a mum and wife, business leader and, what she refers to tongue-in-cheek as, her work as a ‘professional volunteer’. Leigh is the Head of Fundraising and Partnerships at Katie Rose Cottage Hospice and has previously worked for Sheraton Noosa, Altum Property Group, BP, Telstra, and HeliMods. She has also started her own HR consulting business. Leigh has a Master’s degree in Human Resource Management from Monash and undergraduate degrees in Commerce and Arts from UQ.

In her volunteer roles, Leigh was elected to lead the revival of the Peregian Beach Surf Life Saving Club and for this work won the 2022 Volunteer of the Year award. In 2021, Leigh was elected to Chair the LNP Noosa Branch, the first female to hold this position in Noosa’s history. Leigh is also a Director of the Sunshine Coast 2032 Olympics board, local peak body Tourism Noosa, the President of the Tewantin-Noosa CWA, and founder and President of Peregian Family & Friends, Peregian’s resident’s association.

Charmaine Chalmers is a Partner at PwC and currently leads PwC’s Enterprise Digital business, where industry and subject matter expertise is combined with leading coding capability, delivering custom machine learning, robotics and platform solutions to automate data normalisation, calculations, visualisations and outputs. She sits on the PwC Financial Advisory Leadership Team and leads the Digital Transformation program, which involves comprehensive digital upskilling across the organisation, creating capability and igniting a culture of citizen-led automation.

Charmaine has held the role of Diversity and Inclusion leader for PwC’s Tax and Legal business. She is passionate about women, their education and workforce inclusion. Charmaine is a member of the UQ Senate, a Director of UQ Holdings and a Director of Tradeswomen Australia.

People, cultures, and the little things in life that make a big impact are the three driving forces behind Laine Kapetanakos’ commitment to embracing community and creating opportunity.

Throughout her schooling years, Laine has been involved in volunteering, leadership, and mentoring roles across the Asia-Pacific. From leading student-run industry societies to participating in, and mentoring, innovation and educational programs, Laine’s dedication to fostering and furthering her broader community has never wavered.

In 2021, Laine’s was recognised as a UQ Future Leader, sitting in the top 5% of all graduates, and received the UQ Employability Award.

Laine’s love of storytelling and creating unity continues through her work as an Executive Eminence and Communications Consultant at Deloitte.

Laine sits as a board member on the International Association of Business Communicators Queensland Chapter and on The University of Queensland’s Young Alumni Advisory Board – ensuring every young professional has the space and the connections to envision the impact they will have.