Welcome to Episode 6 of Black Business with Dixie Crawford. In this episode Dixie introduces you to Rachelle Towart OAM, Managing Director of Pipeline Talent.

Rachelle is a Medal of the Order of Australia recipient, was named an Australian Financial Review Woman of Influence, and in 2020 was named Canberra’s Indigenous Business Woman of the Year.

Rachelle is a proud Wonnarua woman. She has elevated awareness and the importance of Indigenous leadership and governance capacity to the national stage, through her business Pipeline Talent.

In 2016, Rachelle formed Pipeline Talent to build support for emerging Indigenous leaders after recognising the need for an improved range of tailored support programs for Indigenous executives. She’d met with hundreds of employers who were looking for Indigenous managers and thousands of Indigenous leaders who wanted new career opportunities.

Pipeline brings the two together—providing Australia's leading corporations, not-for-profit organisations and government departments with the opportunity to consider highly qualified, Indigenous candidates for management and executive roles. Pipeline Talent is Australia's first Indigenous executive search company.

With Rachelle at its helm, Pipeline Talent has cemented itself as a highly regarded and respected Indigenous recruitment company. Rachelle’s vision for the company was, and still is, to be recognised nationally and internationally as a catalyst for unlocking the talent and career potential of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

In her chat with Dixie in this episode Rachelle speaks from the heart about the need for corporate Australia to learn, trust and collaborate with Indigenous Australians.

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