We’re empowering girls in years 7-12 across Australia.
The Future is Bright was created to provide high school girls with the guidance, support and resources they need to realise their full potential. We’re ensuring that girls in Australia have the opportunity to pursue a career in their area of choice and reap the social and economic benefits as they grow into women.
Our Impact
50+ schools engaged
Featured in the Australian Financial Review, the Australian, ABC National Radio & more
400+ girls participated
97% participants would recommend to their friends
Our Team
Meet the speakers and facilitators bringing you workshops on Confidence, Speaking, Financial Literacy, Job Readiness, Entrepreneurship, AI Awareness and more.
Amanda Rose
Founder & Workshop Facilitator
Amanda Rose (#BossLady) is an advocate for women in business, a media commentator, keynote speaker and entrepreneur. She appears regularly on Sunrise, Weekend Today and 2GB, and features in national media including the Australian Financial Review, the Daily Telegraph and SmartCompany, applying compassionate critical thinking to unpack complex issues affecting everyday Australians.
Amanda is the Founder and CEO of Entrepreneurial & Small Business Women Australia (ESBWA) and Western Sydney Women, and Co-founder and Director of Women in AI Australia. She also founded and sold Business Women Media, the first platform of its kind dedicated to advocating for small business women. As a mentor and advisor to women in executive roles and SMEs, Amanda is known for her strategic, practical approach to leadership and business.
A passionate keynote speaker, professional development trainer and workshop facilitator, Amanda Rose has worked with the Australian Defence Force, CPA Australia, Law Institute, UTS, the Pharmacy Guild of Australia, ANZ, Deloitte, the Royal Australian Navy and local government in the areas of confident leadership, conflict resolution and relationship building.
Working with John Holland, Laing O’Rourke, Downer, EG Funds and all levels of government on policy creation and stakeholder engagement, Amanda has been described as the “glue connecting communities, government and business” on critical infrastructure and social impact initiatives.
Amanda holds a Master of Communication Management from UTS, a Graduate Certificate in Educational Leadership and a Bachelor of Business Administration (Marketing & Psychology) from Macquarie University. She is currently completing a Master of Business Law at the University of Sydney.
Tiz Porreca
Workshop Facilitator
Whether your target market is B2C or B2B, it’s H2H – human to human – connections that convert. As Founder and Director of AMONGST Marketing, Tiz knows it also takes strategy, not a ‘scatter-gun’ approach. Tiz gets amongst a business to create strategies that make authentic, meaningful connections amongst their audience, while optimising existing assets to deliver tangible results, without breaking the bank.
Tiz brings 20-plus years’ experience, having worked in companies of all sizes, including high level branding projects in advertising, before establishing AMONGST.
In 2018, she was instrumental in developing Inner West Council’s Women in Business Mentoring program, also serving as its marketing mentor. She’s collaborated with Western Sydney Women since it began in 2015 and served as President and in other leadership roles in prominent business referrals groups.
Tiz has collaborated with a diversity in sport organisation, Team Sydney on their 2017 Mardi Gras campaign. One of their best campaigns, it attracted participation from international sporting celebrities and received coverage on SBS TV.
Giving back is important to her, and she’s assisted in fundraising for numerous health charities, including $150,000 towards the Charlie Teo Foundation’s Million $ Mission for brain cancer.
When you work with Tiz you get a ‘straight shooter’ who asks lots of questions, to deliver customised, not cookie cutter marketing solutions. And she’ll challenge you to shift how you think about marketing, so you can grow your business.
Nikki Meller
Workshop Facilitator
Nikki Meller is a strong advocate for inclusive innovation, based in Western Sydney and leading at the intersection of learning, technology, and impact. As the founder and CEO of CREDuED, she designs accessible, human first learning experiences that bridge the digital divide and empower people with the skills needed for a future ready workforce, with a strong focus on equity, sustainability, and economic opportunity.
Her work helps organisations upskill teams, transform cultures, and embed capability at scale. She is also the creator of DocuCRED.Ai, an AI powered compliance tool she built to transform document comparison from a manual burden into a strategic advantage. Beyond entrepreneurship, Nikki is a recognised voice on AI ethics, governance, and responsible innovation, ensuring that technology adoption aligns with fairness, accountability, and trust. She contributes to national conversations on the future of technology as a member of the Tech Council of Australia, Women in Leadership (WIL), and SECNA, bringing a female tech founder perspective to complex challenges at the intersection of regulation, innovation, and social impact.
An award winning leader and speaker, Nikki sees AI not as a threat to human potential but as a catalyst to unlock it. She champions AI as a productivity partner, freeing people from repetitive tasks, amplifying critical thinking, and enabling smarter, faster, and fairer decisions. Her perspective challenges outdated narratives with a provocative question: What if AI didn’t replace us but revealed our best selves?
Her mission is clear, to create a future where innovation is inclusive, learning is a right, and technology serves people, not the other way around.
Dr Juliana Peloche
Workshop Facilitator
Dr Juliana Peloche works in the university space, where she leads initiatives in AI literacy and educational innovation. With a Master’s in the U.S. on Teacher Leadership, a PhD in Artificial Intelligence in Education from the University of Wollongong and over two decades of teaching experience across Brazil, Chile, and Australia, Juliana brings a global perspective to the intersection of technology and inclusive pedagogy.
Her work focuses on empowering educators and students to navigate the ethical, cultural, and practical dimensions of AI in education. She is particularly passionate about integrating the missing voices into AI-driven curricula, fostering dialogue between technologists and the minority groups to ensure more equitable and culturally responsive learning environments.
Juliana's commitment to knowledge dissemination extends beyond the classroom. She regularly contributes to podcasts exploring AI in education and delivers presentations on generative AI to diverse audiences - from academic researchers to school communities and student groups. Her research has been recognised at national and international conferences, and she has received multiple awards and grants supporting her work in training educators about AI integration.
During her doctoral studies, Juliana was named NSW Student of the Year finalist in recognition of her community support initiatives throughout the COVID-19 pandemic - work that exemplified her belief that education extends beyond institutional boundaries.
Beyond her academic work, Juliana is a vocal advocate for women's participation in cycling, demonstrating her broader commitment to challenging barriers and creating inclusive spaces across different domains of public life.