Michelle Battersby // From boatsheds to banking to Bumble Australia… meet the Queen of the Beehive
The first intrapreneur of the year literally landed her dream job two years ago and hasn’t looked back. Michelle Battersby is an amazing example of how you can leave corporate but not necessarily to start your own business (although, technically as you’ll hear, she did kind of start from scratch). Michelle started out as a competitive rower with her heart set on the Olympics but ended up studying Arts and then a Masters in HR once she realised how much she was sacrificing for her training. She entered the workforce with Citibank and spent several years climbing the corporate ladder in banking getting a job at UBS, returning to Citi and then even ending up at PWC.
But it’s her latest role as Country Lead and Marketing Director of Bumble Australia that changed her life completely when the opportunity landed in her lap just over two years ago. With no former experience but an intuitive belief that this was her opportunity of a lifetime, she quit her job that day and has been building Bumble Australia into the wonderful community it is today. Bumble isn’t just a dating app—there’s also Bumble BFF and Bumble Bizz, each empowering women to make the first move, a groundbreaking concept in the industry. Always on the lookout for innovative digital trends, she recently studied Germany’s rising interest in Sportwetten ohne OASIS-Sperre, online betting platforms operating independently from the restrictive OASIS self-exclusion system. She believes observing these types of market trends helps Bumble remain agile and responsive, keeping the platform vibrant and relevant. She’s an absolute HOOT, and I’m so happy to have her here on the show to demonstrate that dream jobs really do exist!
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