Grace and Viarnne continue the conversation with the 2025 Empowered Women in Trades Award Winners, and welcome back Service Stream’s Senior Manager of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, James Smith, alongside Service Stream’s Chief People Officer, Sarah Bottomley. Service Stream took out the 2025 EWIT Award for an organization with the Most Innovative DE&I Program or Initiative for their brilliant in-house School Holiday Program.

The Award for Most Innovative DE&I Program or Initiative recognises a company or organisation that is creating meaningful pathways for underrepresented groups in trades, by embedding diversity, equity, and inclusion into its culture, partnerships, and workforce strategy – leading by example, they are making DE&I a measurable part of how they grow, lead, and build the future of work.

This great discussion highlights how successful Service Stream's School Holiday Program is for increasing productivity and team wellbeing overall. Plus Sarah gives an overview of how apprenticeships work at Service Stream, the variety of fields they are offered in, and how Service Stream is working towards building a pipeline of roles for women in trades.

Service Stream is one of EWIT’s highly valued Alliance Member Organisations. Find out more about the EWIT Alliance ⁠⁠⁠HERE⁠⁠.

The 4th Season of the Empowered Women in Trades Podcast is proudly sponsored by the ⁠⁠⁠Mazzei Group⁠⁠⁠ - award-winning builders of exceptional homes since 2015.

Follow us!

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠INSTAGRAM⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LINKEDIN⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TIK TOK⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FACEBOOK⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Grace, Harriet and Viarnne speak with EWIT Champion 2025, Renee Briggs-Gorgon, APM Apprenticeships National Manager. In her role at APM, Renee leads national strategies focused on connecting people with meaningful career pathways through vocational education and training. Her career spans workforce development, community engagement, and business growth, and she is such a passionate advocate for inclusive employment and lifelong learning.

APM is a global health, employment, disability and workplace services provider that supports more than 2.1 million people across 11 countries each year. APM assists people to find employment, improve their health and wellbeing, and participate in their community. As a major Australian provider, APM is dedicated to making a positive and lasting social impact and enabling better lives every day.

APM Apprenticeships is one of EWIT’s highly valued Alliance Founding Member Organisations. Find out more about the EWIT Alliance ⁠⁠HERE⁠.

The 4th Season of the Empowered Women in Trades Podcast is proudly sponsored by the ⁠⁠Mazzei Group⁠⁠ - award-winning builders of exceptional homes since 2015.

Follow us!

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠INSTAGRAM⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LINKEDIN⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TIK TOK⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FACEBOOK⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

In this episode Grace, Harriet and Viarnne continue to shinethe spotlight on the 2025 EWIT Award Winners in a great discussion with Executive General Manager of Field Services at nbn, Keven Allan – winner of EWIT’s Johnny Award. Keven’s career spans over 30 years of experience as a leader within the telecommunications sector. In his current role at nbn, Keven is responsible for delivering reliable, fast, resilient and secure broadband, which is enabled by delivering appropriately skilled technical resources at the right location, time and cost. Before joining nbn, Keven worked in several notable roles, including at Telstra as an Executive of Field Workflow Services, and as Program Director of the Strategic Work Management Ecosystem.

Keven is certainly passionate about customer experience,transformational change, diversity and capability development, particularly within Field Service operations. He is a dedicated change-leader who places a strong emphasis on understanding the strengths of individuals, teams andsupport systems to ensure they are engaged in goal development, service culture, and objective delivery.

EWIT is proud to welcome nbn as a new Alliance Member in 2026. Find out more about the EWIT Alliance ⁠HERE.

The 4th Season of the Empowered Women in Trades Podcast is proudly sponsored by the ⁠Mazzei Group⁠ - award-winning builders of exceptional homes since 2015.

Follow us!

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠INSTAGRAM⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LINKEDIN⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TIK TOK⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FACEBOOK⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠