The 2023 Cartier Women’s Initiative features three outstanding Australian women founders

Three Australian entrepreneurs are among the finalists of the first ever Oceania awards category of the 2023 edition of the Cartier Women’s Initiative (CWI), a prestigious global entrepreneurship program that supports and empowers women changemakers who are creating innovative and socially responsible businesses, with the winner of the category set to be announced during the Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards Ceremony in May in Paris.

The Australian fellows are Lily Dempster, CEO and founder of One Small Step, a consumer technology profit-for-purpose startup that supports the mass decarbonisation of society by encouraging deep behaviour change across multiple sectors; Ingrid Sealey, founder and director of Teach Well, which improves education outcomes for Australian students with high impact teacher training; and Telecare co-founder and chief operating officer Lina Xu.