Grill The Champions of Change in Final Panel of 2025

Leigh Wood & Tess Palmyre - AdNews Champions of Change Powerlisters Front Final Grill The Marketer for 2025

Tess Palmyre: Champions of Change Join Final Grill Panel of 2025

Leigh Wood – Design Director of Nani Creative, PADC Co-President, Brand Lead WAMA

Leigh is no stranger to being the only woman in the room, but she doesn’t see it as a handicap - it’s her superpower. It’s what’s led her to work across many terrains of the design industry.

As Co-President of the Perth Advertising and Design Club (PADC), and Brand Lead of the WA Marketing Association (WAMA), she is a creative to her core and a communications powerhouse when it counts. Leigh’s expertise is grounded in more than two decades working at the intersection of government, training, and the creative industries. 

Leigh has been awarded throughout her career for her design work – but the award she is most proud of, is being inducted into the 2025 AdNews Champions of Change Power List - recognising individuals making significant strides in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) within the Australian media, marketing, and advertising industries. 

Tess Palmyre - Founder of Brandable, DEI Lead at WAMA

Founder of Brandable and DEI Lead for WAMA, Tess helps organisations cut the crap and build brands that connect – with purpose, with people, and with integrity. She shows businesses how to show up in a polarised world without faking it, fusing cultural intelligence, inclusive strategy, and honest storytelling to create real connection that actually matters.

A former teacher and proudly Seychellois foster mum to two Noongar girls, Tess brings lived experience, sharp strategy and zero tolerance for performative nonsense.

She was named on the 2025 AdNews Champions of Change Power List for driving real impact in the DEI space.

Tess & Leigh join host Carma Levene and event MC Jacqueline Baril for some hot takes and cool hangs - plus a photobooth, pizza, and more!

This will be our last GTM event for 2025, we'd love to see you there.

Read more about the Champions of Change here.

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