Emma Sharley and Dominika Gac Travels from Sydney, NSW

Emma and Dominika work in the branding, marketing, digital and customer experience space. As an extension of their consulting work, they also regularly present and host workshops together, with complementary skill-sets and speaking styles.

Emma Sharley, is a warm and engaging speaker, who is able to speak about brand and marketing concepts at both a topline and detailed level. She has the ability to connect with each audience member individually in her group presentations, and has the ability to open dialogue and prompt conversation around key topics.

She is a marketing consultant specialising in brand, strategy and digital. She consults to corporates, SMEs and start-ups to develop or strengthen their brand, and grow business through strategic and creative marketing. She is currently consulting to clients within the retail, lifestyle, property and technology sectors.

With over 11 years’ experience, she has led marketing for iconic brands including Westfield, Diane Von Fürstenberg, Westpac and T-Mobile, both in Australia and overseas.

She partners closely with clients to understand their vision and develop tailored brand, marketing and digital strategies accordingly. Always with a focus on business objectives, strategic planning, creative marketing initiatives and engaging content to drive brand awareness, customer engagement, revenue and other key areas. Helping businesses transform into a customer-centric approach is a specialty.

She has a strong track record in business, winning multiple industry awards and consistently delivering above expectations. In addition to her passion for building brands, the common thread throughout her career has been a strong interest in innovative thinking, creative collaboration and forging new ground.

She is also the Co-Founder of retail tech start-up Shopof.u, regularly speaks at General Assembly, corporate organisations, fashion schools, and is the Sydney Ambassador for the League of Extraordinary Women.

Marketing Director, Dominika Gac, is a confident and relaxed communicator with a dynamic approach to her presentation style. She had the ability to deliver engaging content with a high level of technical knowledge that is easy for her audience to understand. She loves involving her audience for conversational feedback during the presentation and opens up the content for dialogue which creates high engagement and interest from the audience.

She has held a number of senior positions in marketing for high profile brands working for L’Oreal Luxury Products, Pernod Ricard, Tiger Air, SKYCITY group, Nuance Watson over the last 16 years.

This award winning marketing professional has also been a contributor to AdNews, Mumbrella, guest speaker at keynote events such a Sound Business Plan (ARN), and a guest speaker Melbourne University.

Dom is a highly sought after specialist consultant focusing on strategy, growth and brand development working primarily alongside private equity firms, mergers, acquisitions and commercial IPO listing.

Dom was the youngest female Marketing Manager in aviation when she worked on the Tiger Air brand, repositioning, website - seeing the company through their first ever grounding. She then worked on the major brand repositioning piece which saw the brand rebuilt and ready to gear for a successful IPO listing on the SGX.

Her recent work has seen two of her clients sell part equity of their business in excess of $500M. She truly focuses on the connected customer experience throughout their entire path to purchase. With a background in Commerce, she is commercially savvy, always connecting marketing objective with the business fundamental KPI’s to
drive results.