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Chyloe Kurdas, a former elite Australian rules footballer, television and radio sports commentator, spent a decade building the catalyst for the first-ever national women’s football competition, the AFLW, as AFL Victoria’s Female Football Development Manager. She credits being one of the first women to play football on the MCG as one of the best days of her life.
Current Work:
Chyloe is a sought after expert and prominent advocate for gender equity and cultural change. She is an Associate of the Melbourne Business School and her expertise is currently being used to present leadership programs to the Department of Defence.
Chyloe is currently the Inclusion and Diversity Manager for the Australian Red Cross. In this role she is charged with collaborating on the development and implementation of their Inclusion & Diversity strategy.
Previous Experience:
Golf Australia: Chyloe led the implementation of Vision 2025, Golf Australia’s long-term strategy to enhance the engagement of women and girls in golf. In this role Chyloe created a unified whole of industry commitment to gender equality through sensitive stakeholder management and coaching of executive leaders to facilitate and advocate for change.
AFL: Chyloe's time as AFL Victoria’s Female Football Development Manager saw the creation of multiple high performance sporting programs to help girls develop their leadership, football and wellbeing capacities. These programs, with their focus on enhancing the entire athlete, were the culmination of her studies in health promotion, education and psychology and served as a catalyst for the rapid growth in the female game that sparked the AFLW.
Talking Points
The Bottom Line of Diversity
Chyloe’s presentation will explore why diversity of experience is a high performance non-negotiable and how we can build diversity empowered leadership teams and organisations. Chyloe will unpack how organisations can reframe diversity of experience as a strategic advantage as well as what opportunities are lost if we fail to meaningfully engage diverse people within our decision-making spaces.The Bottom Line of Diversity
Chyloe will leverage experiences from her leadership journey in driving gender equality in Australian sport - particularly in Australian football and golf and share her frameworks from achieving progressive change in these institutions.
Video
The power and potential of the women’s game | Chyloe Kurdas | TEDxSydney
What if we could build a national competition? In this moving and inspiring talk, Australian Football League Women's (AFLW) Pioneer Chyloe Kurdas, details the barriers to success that she overcame to build the fastest-growing sporting participation movement in Australia.Chyloe Kurdas | TEDxSydney 2018 | Ideas of Note Speakers Series
This video takes you on a journey to uncover and share Chyloe's key turning points.Unfilted: Chyloe Kurdas | 'You don't stop coming out as a same-sex attracted person'
AFLW expert Chyloe Kurdas discusses her experiences growing up as part of the LGBTQIA+ community, all thanks to Telstra.Audio
Chyloe spent so much time and effort to ensure that her key note address complimented our evening and was relevant to the audience’s needs. Chyloe was incredibly easy to work with and discus ... keep reading Darebin City
Incredibly professional, timely and easy to work with. Chyloe’s message was powerful, tailored for the audience and resonated with all delegates in attendance. I too took great value out of what she had to say regarding engagement and building a community of supporters.
Chyloe responded to our brief and her delivery was fabulous. The audience loved her!
Chyloe brings a passion and powerful message based on her remarkable experience. It is an inspiring story that resonates with people of all ages.
