MEET OUR FOUNDER

Megan Dalla-Camina is the Founder and CEO of Women Rising, an award-winning leadership development company advancing women’s leadership, career development and gender equity in organisations around the world.

Megan brings more than 30 years of experience spanning corporate leadership, strategy, organisational change, entrepreneurship, research and women’s leadership development. Before founding her own business, she spent 18 years in senior corporate roles with organisations including IBM, GE and PwC, working across marketing, business strategy, leadership and organisational transformation.

During her corporate career, Megan was also a founding implementation leader in the Male Champions of Change initiative, now the Change Champions Coalition, working alongside the Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner and senior business leaders to advance gender equality in the workplace. This experience has deeply informed her work with women, men and organisations, and her understanding of the personal, cultural and systemic factors that shape women’s experiences of work and leadership.

For more than a decade, Megan has worked at the intersection of women’s leadership, gender equity, behavioural science and wellbeing, translating research into practical frameworks that support meaningful and sustainable change.

Through Women Rising, Megan and her team have supported more than 10,500 women across 76 countries and partnered with hundreds of organisations, including Microsoft, ANZ, Telstra, EY and Fujitsu. The Women Rising ecosystem also includes the Male Allies program, supporting thousands of men to better understand gender inequality and take practical action to create more inclusive workplaces.

Megan is a four-time bestselling author whose work explores the questions so many women find themselves navigating: how to build confidence, trust themselves, make courageous career choices, lead authentically and create lives and careers that genuinely work for them. Her book Women Rising: The Forces That Hold Us Back and the Tools to Help Us Rise brings together research, lived experience and practical tools to examine both the personal and systemic forces that can hold women back, and what helps them move forward.

Her work and thought leadership have been featured in Forbes, Fortune, Fast Company, Psychology Today, CNN, NBC, Elle and Marie Claire, and she has spoken on stages around the world. Megan was named Woman of the Year and Mentor of the Year at the 2023 B&T Women Leading Tech Awards and was recognised at #20 on the 2024 B&T Women Leading Tech Power List. Under her leadership, Women Rising was named the 2024 Telstra Best of Business Awards NSW winner in the Accelerating Women category.

Megan holds Master’s degrees in Business Management from Macquarie Business School and Wellness & Positive Psychology from RMIT. She is currently a PhD researcher in Philosophy at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where her research explores women’s spirituality, feminine wisdom, leadership, patriarchy and power.

Across her corporate career, research, writing and work with organisations globally, Megan has remained focused on one central question: what enables women to lead, work and live with greater confidence, agency and self-determination, and what needs to change in our organisations and systems to make that possible?

Today, Megan’s work brings together decades of leadership experience, rigorous research and a deep understanding of women’s lived experience to help create meaningful change for women, leaders and the organisations they work within.