Alanna Bastin-Byrne

Director, Femeconomy.com

Alanna Bastin-Byrne has over 19 years’ experience in Marketing, Communications and Community Development leadership in the UK and Australia. She is the Director of Femeconomy, a national membership organisation that educates how purchasing decisions can create gender equality. Femeconomy’s approved companies have at least 30% women on the Board of Directors or 50% female ownership, they believe companies with female leaders are more likely to have workplace flexibility and less likely to have a gender pay gap, which could help creating gender equality for their employees and communities.

Alanna’s experience spans a wide range of industries including Health, Arts, Events, Education, Social Housing and Tourism. In 2018 Alanna was announced as one of 80 Women2Watch in Business Disruption in US, Canada, Australia, and Europe. In 2020 Alanna was a Telstra Businesswoman of the Year finalist in Queensland and Griffith University Entrepreneur-in-Residence.

Alanna was born on the land of the Giabal people at Toowoomba, and now lives and works on Bundjalung Country. 

Web: femeconomy.com
LinkedIn: Alanna Bastin-Byrne