About
Letter from Louise
When I started in the trades at 15, I didn’t see many people who looked like me, sounded like me, or understood what it meant to be a woman on the tools. Despite women comprising approximately 28% of apprentices and trainees nationally, women represent less than 3% of qualified tradespeople. This is something I want to change!
This company, the services it provides and the vision it has for the future was born from lived experience in the field, and a genuine passion to see meaningful improvement in the sector. Our aim is to support qualified tradeswomen to succeed throughout their careers, and to support businesses to make their workplaces more inclusive and safe.
Through targeted strategies, determination and support from partners and allies, Louise Azzopardi Training and Development Solutions has experienced rapid growth. This impact report represents a collective four years of advocacy, podcast episodes, workshops, conference keynotes and coaching sessions.
I have had the opportunity to meet, connect with and support so many incredible and inspiring people. I’ve had the privilege of coaching women facing burnout, gaslighting and isolation, and watched them reclaim their voice, their goals and their pride. I’ve seen women go from doubting themselves to mentoring others. That’s the kind of ripple effect we’re here to create.
So, thank you to every woman who has applied, participated, shared her story or backed herself. Thank you to the sponsors, partners and allies who have believed in what we are building, your support has turned ideas into lasting change.
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Louise is passionate about giving tradespeople the tools they need to succeed and supporting business to create workplaces where tradespeople can succeed!
What we do
- Provide coaching, mentoring and development programs for women in qualified trades.
- Facilitate training and educational programs to build the capability of employers to create inclusive workplaces where tradeswomen are respected, valued and supported.
- Foster community networks and build public awareness of the barriers tradeswomen face in the workplace, and the inherent value they bring to the sector.
Social Enterprise Model
Louise Azzopardi Training and Development Solutions is a
cross-subsidy social enterprise, delivering accessible product and services to meet a community need. The company uses its profits to provide women in qualified trades with coaching, mentoring and support, and to work with their employers to enhance workplace safety and inclusion.
Global Standards of a Social Enterprise
- Exists to solve a social or environmental problem. The company exists to increase the retention rate of qualified women in trades through tailored, person-centred, accessible supports.
- Prioritises purpose, people and planet over profit. We put people and purpose first. meeting tradeswomen exactly where they are: on job sites, navigating toxic environments, juggling family demands and trying to build confidence in industries that weren’t design with them in mind.
- Has self-sustaining revenue model. The company uses a mixed revenue model, focused on working with businesses through sponsorships and partnerships.
- Reinvests the majority of any surplus towards its purpose. The company uses a mixed revenue model, focused on working with businesses through sponsorships and partnerships. Over 90% of revenue is reinvested towards the company’s vision and mission.
- Chooses legal structures and financing that protect and lock-in purpose long tem. The company has a ‘Private Company Pty Ltd’ legal structure, with governing documentation that lock in the vision and mission.