Zoë Sparks

Director – Spectacular Events Pty Ltd / Founder – SHINE Business Women

Zoë has over twenty-seven year’s experience within the travel industry, and after winning the prestigious “Traveland National Consultant of the Year” 1995/1996 award, she moved from Qld’s Sunshine Coast to Sydney to taken on the position of Conference Manager for Traveland Pty Ltd.

In 1998, Spectacular Events was launched, specialising in all aspects of Conference & Event Management and also corporate travel. This business was transferred to the Sunshine Coast in June 2000 and grew into three travel agency offices. The business went from strength to strength, being inducted into the Excellence Awards “Hall of Fame” after three award wins, a proven testament to the team’s dedication to the highest level of customer service, sales and commitment to delivering the ‘best itinerary at the right price.’

Zoë was recognised as the 2004 Sunshine Coast Outstanding Business Woman of the Year and a 2005 & 2006 Qld Finalist in the Telstra Business Women’s Awards. More recently, Zoë was a 2017 Regional Finalist in the IML Owner/Entrepreneur Leader of the Year awards.

Six years ago the business was completely re-structured to move with the times, and Spectacular Events now focuses exclusively on Conference & Event Management and group travel, primarily corporate, school, sport and special interest tours.

With a huge passion for small business, women in business and, reward and recognition, Zoë has also written two business books ‘Strive & Thrive’ and ‘Healthy & Wealthy’ which focus on tips to business success and ensuring that you and your business are performing at their best. ‘Award & Reward’ will complete the trilogy and will be released mid 2018.

So why SHINE Business Women?

In recent years, Zoë has mentored a number of business women and loves to ‘give back’ and share what she has learnt over the years. For a long time, Zoë has wanted to deliver education, tips and tricks, and to share stories of people’s success to high-level business professionals on a larger scale. Her books were the catalyst for this and have enabled her to reach a large number of people through her website, speaker events and workshops.

Having run conference events for major corporate, national companies for 20+ years, it makes sense to take the next step and offer conferences of a similar standard to all women, whether they are corporate, professional, small business owners, managers or employees. The same goes for education, inspiration and motivation.

“I’m so excited to launch SHINE Business Women as it has been a goal in the pipeline for a number of years. To see it finally coming to fruition is fantastic! We have an amazing speaker line-up and the Sunshine Coast (and then Australia) is set to host an explosion of inspiration, learning and motivation it has never experienced before.”