Women in Business Luncheon 2025
Our 16th annual Women in Business Luncheon is back this May 2025! Grab your diary and lock in Friday, 30 May for our beloved event, featuring special guest Maz Farrelly and host Alicia Loxley.
Celebrate our 16th year anniversary of our Women in Business Luncheon. This event is proudly brought to you by the Moonee Valley Business team.
Network with like-minded businesswomen over a delicious two-course lunch and drinks at Essendon Fields' Hyatt Place. Hear from media consultant and TV show producer, Maz Farrelly in conversation with our MC Alicia Loxley. This event is your chance to network with like-minded business entrepreneurs, celebrate women in business and hear from our esteemed speakers.
Women in Business Luncheon 2025 event details
Date: Friday, 30 May 2025
Time: 11.30am – 3pm
Location: Hyatt Place, Essendon Fields
Guest speaker: Maz Farrelly
Host: Alicia Loxley
Attire: Business Corporate/Semi-Formal with a splash of colour
Your ticket includes a premium beverage package at the beautiful Australian Events Centre, Hyatt Place, with doors opening from 11am.
About your speakers
Maz Farrelly
Maz is a highly regarded media consultant, leadership coach, and entrepreneur. She built her reputation as a savvy producer within the realm of reality TV, and has gone on to use these same strategies to help businesses tell their story and stand out from the crowd.
Her history in production is unmatched: she’s won awards for every ratings juggernaut in recent history. From Big Brother to Dancing With The Stars, The X Factor and The Celebrity Apprentice, all the way The Farmer Wants A Wife and the long running current affairs show, Q&A on ABC. From all her years on set, Maz now firmly believes in the three E’s: entertainment, engagement, and emotion.
Turning her tricks of the trade into a successful media consultancy, Maz now runs Absolutely Farrelly, a company that specialises in creative content, training, and building strategies to boost engagement. There’s nothing she loves more than helping businesses unlock their full potential.
Maz holds a special interest in leadership, self-confidence, and motivating women to break through barriers to pursue their ambitions and make a lasting impact in their industries. As a leadership coach, Maz provides practical insights into developing a successful business venture. She covers emotional intelligence, resilience, and strategic thinking, and how to manage the inevitable setbacks that almost every business faces in their early years. She’s also passionate about advocating for work-life balance and ensuring that professional success is matched with personal well-being. There’s no business without the individual at the center of the story, and Maz knows that better than most.
Alicia Loxley
Maz will be joined on stage by host Alicia Loxley, an esteemed journalist and the current host of Nine News Melbourne. Alicia is no stranger to the camera herself, and has been at the frontline of breaking stories across the last two decades, including the Black Saturday bushfires, the London Olympics, and multiple State and Federal election specials. She has appeared on programs from the Today Show, Inside Story, 3AW and ABC Radio.