Megan Dalla-Camina
Megan Dalla-Camina is an Australian female author, Women’s advocate and entrepreneur. She is the Founder and CEO of Women Rising, a women’s leadership and empowerment platform with a mission to support women in their career, leadership journey and life.
Known around the world for her ‘brave’ and ‘refreshing’ approach to women’s leadership, empowerment, and wellbeing, Megan Dalla-Camina is forging a new path for women to own their power, embrace their sovereignty and rise.
A celebrated coach, influential writer, committed researcher and compelling advocate for change, Megan draws on over a decade as an award-winning entrepreneur, a 20 year corporate career and a distinctive fusion of science, spirit, and experience.
Passionate about philanthropy, Megan’s Women Rising Foundation is proud to support key charitable partners UN Women, Dress for Success and Northern Beaches Women’s Shelter.
Early life and education
Megan Dalla-Camina grew up as a creative; a dancer, actress, writer, poet, singer, music producer. She was always creating and performing, right through until she was in her early twenties. A car accident then changed her course, and she ended up in the corporate world, which saw her working for big global companies like GE, PwC and IBM for the best part of 20 years.
Megan worked in marketing, business development, business strategy, gender diversity, organisational change and leadership development, in senior roles within Australia, Asia and the US. Her final corporate role was Head of Strategy for IBM, a 5 billion dollar business. During that time she also completed two Masters degrees; Business Management from Macquarie Business School and Wellness & Positive Psychology from RMIT University. Just before she landed her first big Director role, she fell pregnant with her son. Megan is currently studying her PHD in Women’s Spirituality and Leadership at California Institute of Integral Studies in the USA.
Career
Megan’s corporate leadership journey was grounded in two decades as an award-winning marketing director and multibillion-dollar strategist for corporate heavyweights including IBM, GE, and PwC. During this time, she was a founding implementation leader with the Human Rights Commissioner in the Male Champions of Change (now Change Champions Coalition); an initiative considered one of the most potent global change efforts for gender diversity.
Megan has long been passionate about how women can succeed and thrive personally and professionally. Her experience as a female leader in male dominated environments, together with her journey of juggling it all (single mother, exec roles, post graduate study, life) left her burnout and searching for the answers to how women could authentically combine fulfilling careers, leadership and the thriving wellbeing that had alluded her. This, combined with her passion for all things women’s leadership, gender diversity, wellness, and positive psychology, inspired Megan to launch Women Rising.
The Women Rising holistic leadership framework is the next evolution of empowering women to lead with confidence, show up as their most authentic selves, and live with levels of wellbeing that can sustain them both personally and professionally. To date, the company and its cutting-edge programs have supported more than 9000 women in 65 countries, and partnered with many of the world’s leading organisations including Microsoft, ANZ Bank, Telstra, EY and PwC to name only a few.
With an international reputation as being the ‘voice of now’, Megan has appeared as a speaker on high profile stages all over the world including the Women’s Economic Forum where she was an award honouree for her contribution to women’s empowerment[1]; and been featured in Forbes, Fortune, Elle, Marie Claire, Fast Company, Well + Good, Thrive Global, CNN, NBC and as a columnist for Psychology Today.
Publications
Megan's thought leadership aims to provoke conversation and shape a new leadership paradigm for women[2], as do her four bestselling books including her latest Women Rising: The Forces That Hold Us Back. The Tools to Help Us Rise, Simple Soulful Sacred: A Woman’s Guide to Clarity, Comfort and Coming Home to Herself. Lead Like A Woman: Your essential guide for true confidence, career clarity, vibrant wellbeing and leadership success. Getting Real About Having it All: Be Your Best, Love Your Career and Bring Back Your Sparkle. Megan is regularly sort out by the media to offer her perspective on women's issues, gender and diversity and has been interviewed on reputable radio shows such as the ABC's Evening's with Indira Naidoo Podcasts such as Life Uncut and Kicpod. Megan has also written several motivating articles which have been published on notable media platforms.
Awards and recognition
In 2023, Megan was named by B&T’s Women Leading Tech Awards, as Woman and Mentor of the year in recognition of her impact as an innovator in women’s leadership and empowerment across the globe.
In 2024, Megan’s company Women Rising was a NSW finalist for the Telstra Business Award winning the NSW award for the Accelerating Women category.
References
- Megan Dalla-Camina,"Are You Rejecting Your Feminine Traits?"
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