
Mentors in Melbourne
Div Pillay
CEO
MindTribes
Div Pillay is a diversity and inclusion practitioner, leader, researcher and advocate with over 20 years of experience in gender, race and cultural equity. She leads a multidisciplinary team of intersectional specialists with lived experience as First Nations people, people from LGBTIQA+ communities and people with disability. Born, raised and educated in South Africa, Div brings lived experience of racial segregation. For more than 12 years, she has researched the covert nature of negative behaviours at work as experienced by women, migrants, refugees and asylum seeker professionals. Backed by her behavioural science and economics background, Div has worked with boards and executive teams in large private and public sector organisations as a trusted advisor into decision making affecting social cohesion and workplace safety. Div leads award-winning diversity and inclusion consultancy MindTribes, and the not-for-profit arm, The MindTribes Foundation, committed to research, communities and young people.
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Content Marketer at Mentor Walks, Tess’s professional life is shaped by a desire to drive gender equality and build an inclusive society. Her passion and experience saw her lead the social media arm of the Teach Us Consent campaign, pulling mandatory consent education for Australian students over the line in March 2022.
She is currently completing her Bachelor of Communications (Social and Political Science) at UTS and is most energised and inspired when surrounded with powerhouse women.
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