Costa Group celebrated National Diversity Week, or Harmony Week, as its
known in WA by providing each and every one of its 5000 staff to lunch. All Western Australian employees of Australia’s leading horticultural group joined together for lunch to celebrate its diverse workforce. The 11 different nationalities came together at Casuarina’s Mushroom Exchange and were treated to a video announcement by its Chairman Frank Costa and COO George Haggar which celebrated the team’s diversity. The workforce at the Casuarina mushroom farm is made up of people
from many and varied backgrounds, including Chinese, New Zealanders, Thais,
South Africans, English, Indian, Pakistani, Vietnamese and even Venezuelan. Their lunch was captured by the local Community Newspaper with a full page pictorial.
Sally Carbon
Founder, Director and Principal Consultant
Sally Carbon is the founder of G11 Teams – setting up the business late in 2011 in response to serving a distribution company based in Melbourne which designed high fashion clothes in Paris – it was a fun way to kick start her own business. Her diverse client list grew, covering all sectors, and various organisational sizes and scales. Sally is a business strategist, helping companies to grow, finding their competitive advantage, and driving high organisational performance through leading-practice strategy. Sally has consulted for 15 years, specialises in strategic growth, across all sectors from financial services, not for profit, resources, agriculture, education, and private sector. She was formerly the Director of Docklands Authority in Melbourne, a large scale urban renewal the size of Melbourne’s CBD. Sally is also a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and was first placed on a government board when she was 22 years of age. She is an Olympic and World Cup gold medallist, and has released nine books. Sally loves to work with like-minded high performance thinkers who enjoy feeling ‘uncomfortable’