Death Deaths

Molly Carlile AM has worked in the palliative care sector as a specialist clinician, leader and senior manager for over thirty years. She has received multiple national and international awards, is a published author, international speaker and advocate for improving community death literacy in order to build compassionate and supportive communities for people living with a terminal illness or grieving the loss of someone they love. Her latest book The Death Talker has been used widely as a source of information and inspiration. Molly is Chief Executive Officer of Palliative Care South East Ltd. and sits on a number of DHHS advisory and policy committees.

Fabian comes from a well known Australian family, and is the founding partner of Dattner Grant, one of Australia’s best known specialist leadership consultancies.

Fabian’s insights into leadership and her fearlessness in challenging leaders to consider more inclusive, and indeed more profitable, forms of leadership are well acknowledged. She is widely recognised as a highly effective speaker, creative strategist, facilitator, teacher and social entrepreneur.

Fabian has a considerable number of both commercial and community achievements to her credit. She, she has twice been a runner-up in the state Telstra Businesswomen’s Awards, she is an Australia Day Ambassador, regularly contributes to various media around Australia on leadership issues, and was a monthly guest on the ABC’s Nightlife program with Tony Delroy for many years. She has also penned three books on leadership and has been included in many others.

Down-to-earth, informed, entertaining and provocative, Fabian has contributed as a speaker in over 500 organisations throughout Australia, South-East Asia and Europe and has run long-range leadership initiatives for hundreds more.

Larin Sullivan is a film writer and director. Her 2013 documentary, Soul, explores death and metaphysics through sustainable burial garment design with artist and celebrant Pia Interlandi. Soul aired on the ABC in March as part of the award-winning Anatomy Arts series produced by Matchbox Pictures, and is currently nominated for an ATOM Award for Best Experimental Film.

Larin moved to Australia from New York City after earning her masters degree at Columbia University School of Arts Film Division. However, she began her career in Los Angeles, where she worked on the Sundance Film Festival programming team from 2002-2005, and in the writing and editing rooms of the drama series Mad Men and The L Word.

Larin currently works as a producer of short-form documentary and arts related content. Her next long-form project, an Australian biographical political drama, is currently in development.

George McEncroe is the CEO and founder of Shebah, Australia's ridesharing service for women. While trying to safely get her four kids where they needed to go and support her family as a single mum, she came up with an idea for a business: ridesharing that allowed an all-women fleet of drivers to earn income whenever suited them, and that provided worry-free transport for women and children. Now that she's turned her idea into a reality, she's added CEO to the list of roles on her resumé, which include stand-up comedian, breakfast radio host, ABC producer and more.

George started her career in comedy after becoming a Victorian Finalist for Raw Comedy. Her debut one-woman show for Melbourne International Comedy Festival won her a Best New-Comer nomination. George has appeared on Spicks and Specks, Can of Worms and is a regular guest co-host on The Circle. She can be heard on 3AW, 774 and Radio Australia as well as occasionally popping up on Triple R.