Building a Best Workplace: Insights from Small & Medium Businesses

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Australia’s small and medium businesses are at the heart of workplace innovation — often leading the way with agility, creativity, and people-first leadership.

In this 45-minute session, you’ll hear directly from leaders of organisations recognised on the Best Workplaces™ in Australia 2025 List. They’ll share what’s worked for them, the challenges they’ve faced, and the practical steps they’ve taken to build trust, strengthen culture, and keep employees engaged.

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About the speakers

Tamara Turner

Co-Founder and General Manager of Axon Property Group

Tamara Turner is the Co-Founder and General Manager of Axon Property Group, proudly recognised as one of Australia’s Best Places to Work. Since launching the business with her husband, a veteran, Tamara has played a hands-on role in building not just a successful company, but a workplace where people genuinely love showing up every day.

Driven by her values of family, trust, and integrity, Tamara leads the people and culture strategy with intention and heart. From introducing paid half-day Fridays to encourage work-life balance, to championing professional development, team wellbeing, and open communication, her leadership has created a strong culture of belonging, accountability, and shared purpose. Tamara’s proudest achievement isn’t just building an award-winning workplace, it’s creating a culture where people feel seen, supported, and inspired to do their best work.

Ray Sweeney

Chief Commercial Officer at Sensible Business Solutions

Ray Sweeney is the Chief Commercial Officer at Sensible Business Solutions, a leading managed IT service provider for small to medium businesses. Throughout his career which spans across operations, sales, and consulting, Ray has held leadership positions in several fast-growing technology companies. Witnessing first hand the successes and failures, Ray can attribute almost all of them to the strength of culture.

Ray firmly believes that people are more likely to contribute to something they feel connected to, highlighting the importance of clear and transparent communication about an organisation's purpose and vision. Having witnessed the significant impact of a positive culture on a company's success, Ray has developed a deep passion for open book management and the leader-leader model.Sensible Business Solutions has been recognised as one of Australia's Best Workplaces in 2023, 2024 & 2025, an achievement made possible by an incredible team of people, all connected in values and united in purpose.

Daniel Williams

HR Advisor The Man Cave

Daniel Williams is the People & Culture Advisor at The Man Cave, a leading preventative mental health charity for young men and their communities. In his role, Daniel focuses on strengthening organisational culture, embedding best-practice people-first initiatives, and partners with leaders to build engaged, resilient and high-performing teams.

Daniel is passionate about the role culture plays in driving both wellbeing and impact, and believes the most successful organisations are those that invest in their people, prioritise emotional intelligence, and deliver operational excellence with authenticity.

The Host

Valentina Lwin Bailey

Senior Consultant – Great Place To Work® ANZ & ASEAN

Valentina is a senior HR professional with over 25 years of experience across higher education, government, and corporate sectors in Australia and Myanmar. For the past 15 years, she has led organisational design, talent management, engagement, and workplace culture initiatives. She first encountered Great Place To Work while leading HR at a telecommunications multinational in Myanmar, where she guided the organisation to become Certified™ for consecutive years.

Today, as a Senior Consultant at Great Place To Work, she coaches People & Culture leaders, senior teams, and C-Suite executives on building trust-based, high-performing cultures. Passionate about education and leadership, Valentina also mentors young professionals and has taught management and HR at undergraduate level.

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