Travels From Victoria
Speaker Topics
Diversity and Inclusion
From the board room to cadets and the broader community, a need to cultivate diverse and inclusive environments and opportunities for those around us is an important goal for many. It's time to improve our practical understanding of how to create pathways and support for people from diverse communities.
Key Takeaways:
Diversity and inclusion as a process as well as an outcome.
How to interrogate your own knowledge gaps, biases and blind spots around diversity and inclusion.
How to navigate the infinite kinds of diversity and inclusion challenges, while bringing people together and improving access to opportunity and understanding.
Mental Health
A supportive environment for mental health is so much more than checking in one day a year, and requires an ever-evolving combination of learning and paying attention.
Combining expertise with lived experience to deliver relatable, practical and insightful keynotes tailored to your needs regarding mental health - you will learn;
Understanding what we mean when we say Mental Health.
How to create an environment that is supportive of good mental health.
How to cultivate relationships and pay attention to people around you to better recognise and support those struggling with mental health.
Social Impacts
We know that people want to have purpose in their lives and work, and overwhelmingly want to have a positive impact on the world. Josh teaches how to best educate and encourage people to understand what good social impact looks like. How to measure and achieve it, and the best way to create meaningful, purposeful impact in your life and business.
Key Takeaways:
What is good social impact?
How do we measure, implement and deliver good social impact outcomes?
How do cultivate purposeful work, and make our current work more purposeful?
Josh Reid Jones
Founder JBNProject - Just Be Nice.
An experienced speaker/educator, Josh has presented alongside CEO's of major companies, TV personalities and subject matter experts Australia wide. Speaking on a range of topics covering social entrepreneurship, purpose, business development and many other related topics. Rather than simply present the same things over and over again Josh tailors presentations and development sessions to the various audiences to whom he presents.
Josh Reid Jones is the founder of the JBNProject (Just Be Nice) which aims to move people to an equality of opportunity through three core streams: housing, employment and mental health. Having worked across the charitable and business sectors, Josh has recognised that the challenges faced by the charitable sector are systemic, and any solution that operates within the same system will be plagued by the same problems. Sustainability and financial security are as important to charities as they are to businesses, if not more so, irrespective of the "not for profit" tagline.
The JBNProject has been designed to amplify good will by utilising the skills, infrastructure, even geographical location of existing businesses for maximum scale and impact. By bringing together existing businesses with the most effective, transparent and efficient charitable organisations, the JBNProject drives complete outcomes across housing, employment and mental health, by creating a collaborative environment to deliver lasting change.
A non-executive director of one of Tasmania’s largest social service providers, an RUOK Day ambassador and recipient of a range of awards and scholarships for outstanding contributions to social impact and non-profit leadership, Josh has been involved in, and responsible for, improving the lives of many thousands of people across a remarkable career that continues to go from strength to strength.
Josh holds a Bachelor of Arts with a double major in Philosophy and Media & Communications, with an English Literature minor. He is also a qualified carpenter, with post-graduate qualifications in business - currently completing an MBA on a full scholarship for social impact and non-profit leadership.
He lives in Melbourne, balancing work with regularly undertaking physical challenges - including a 24hr run around Albert Park Lake and a 24hr Ski-Erg challenge - playing music and enjoying a laugh and casual drink with friends. He is a recipient of the Cranlana 2020 Scholarship for ethical leaders, offered to outstanding leaders from the not-for-profit, start-up, arts and culture, and community sectors who demonstrate excellence and courage in ethical leadership.