About
Nambucca Valley
Women’s Business
Network
At NVWBN, we are committed to creating a non-competitive, supportive environment where women can share skills, access mentoring, and overcome challenges together. Our dedicated committee, made up of of local women passionate about community and professional growth, works tirelessly to provide valuable resources and opportunities for our members.
Over the past seven years, NVWBN has become a cherished cornerstone of support and connection for working women across the valley. We believe in empowering women to not only meet but rise above their daily challenges, helping them to live their best lives while achieving their professional goals. Join us and be part of a thriving network that celebrates and uplifts women in business throughout the Nambucca Valley.
NVWBN Committee
Libby Foster
President
Libby is the President and a founding member of the Nambucca Valley Women’s Business Network. She has over 20 years marketing, communications and engagement experience in Australia and Asia in the private and government sectors across tourism, retail, finance, education, the environment and waste.
Libby is a strong advocate for small business in particular local businesses facing the growing challenge of competing within a global economy. She also has a keen interest in behaviour change and community based social marketing programs that strive to deliver better outcomes for the environment.
She loves to travel, usually has a book on the go and a true crime podcast, dabbles in interior design and spends time gardening in between taking road trips to visit her family.
Sara Runciman
Vice-President
Sara Runciman is the Vice-President of the Nambucca Valley Women’s Business Network (NVWBN), a role she has embraced since 2022 as one of the founding members. With a background in communications, Sara is known for her directness, honesty and infectious laughter. Her talent lies in clear communication and building strong relationships, driven by a strong purpose and sense of meaning.
Outside of her professional life, Sara enjoys practicing yoga, reading, singing, and spending quality time with friends and family. She is deeply passionate about personal growth, the transformative power of education, and empowering women in her community.
Diana Wilkinson
Treasurer
I am book keeper who loves what I do, so I am a great fit for being the treasurer for this Committee. I am passionate about supporting women in business while staying connected to my community.
I love finding easy to implement and easy to maintain solutions for my book keeping clients so they can do what they do best! Working across many different industries has given me a greater insight into what makes people tick and how important it is to have trustworthy people on your team.
I try to balance family life, work, and my role in the network and love reading and spending time at the beach and making the most of the beautiful Nambucca Valley that we call home.
Kim Thomson
Committee Member
Have you ever needed to change something in your life and change it fast? I spent nearly 20 years working my way up the career ladder in a Government Department. For a while I thought I was living my dream life, but it was stressful and my health and my family life suffered. I woke up one day and realised I was living to work, not working to live. Even worse, I was fulfilling someone else’s plans on someone else’s schedule.
I’m definitely passionate about natural health and well-being so my next career move was an easy one. While on maternity leave, I studied to become an aromatherapist and set up my Hot Oily Mumma business. I feel like this is my true calling. I LOVE helping other women discover natural alternatives for hormone health, stress, emotions, skin care, low-tox cleaning and their children’s well-being.
Nicole Cisterne
Committee Member
Nicole is a small-scale farmer, passionate about growing vegetables. She loves growing healthy food, making it available locally and caring for the earth that it is grown in; whilst ensuring the business is financially viable and that the well-being of everyone involved is supported.
Collaborating with local farmers has been key for her, and her partner, to building strong relationships in the community, and providing Dolly’s Run (their farming business) with the framework to provide a living income.
She believes that local food systems and transparent farming practices are how we build connections between farmers and consumers, and the healthier both will be.
Outside of farming, Nicole strives to live a healthy and frugal life. She enjoys being physically active, loves yoga. She loves music and reading. She enjoys growing, making, and sharing food. She is continually learning new skills and is curious about everything!
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Join us at the next networking meeting! Connect with industry professionals, share insights, and build valuable relationships that can help grow your business.
