Emeli Paulo

Co-Founder at Collective Potential

Emeli is a five-time social entrepreneur, fierce DE&I advocate, L&D trainer & multidisciplinary HCD designer. With two decades of facilitation, she has reached over 1 million people through 15,000 motivational & codesign workshops in social innovation & tech ventures.

Emeli is also the Founder of SoCo, Neuro Care & PowerBias. Diversity Equity & Inclusion programs that teach emotional agility to VC’s, founders, leaders and teams to become aware of, and present with power bias (in the self and others).

Currently studying Masters of Design Future to redesign many of the social, cultural, political and professional structures that support Australian communities that have remained static and unchallenged for generations.

Emeli’s mission is to continue to empower people to speak their truth, build socially inclusive workplaces and connected communities.

Title: Why we don't ask for help? (and why that's a problem)

Synopsis: In this workshop we will look at the barriers that stop us from asking for help so we can reach our potential in starting or scaling our enterprises and our careers.

If you haven't been taught how to ask for help, you don't do it. Asking for help is a skill you have to practice. It takes practice and discipline to learn how to ask for it and then even more practice on accepting the feedback you get.

We'll also address how we create safer spaces for people to ask for help.