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Business Breakfast Chat with Bec Johnson
Join Stirling Business Association for our quarterly business breakfast event. We are looking forward to welcoming Bec Johnson, CEO of the Type 1 Diabetes Family Centre as our speaker. Bec’s life has certainly been one of living with no limits. Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at 17 Bec has never let that stop her in her quest to fundamentally change diabetes care in Australia and live her life to the fullest.
Bec will be sharing her anecdotes that include establishing the Type 1 Diabetes Family Centre in Stirling, her Rottnest swims and sharing some of the challenges (and wins) she’s had along the way. So come along to hear Bec’s inspiring journey and network with the SBA community over a delicious hot breakfast & coffee at our favourite coastal spot, The Sandbar.
About out guest speaker:
Diagnosed with the life-threatening chronic disease type 1 diabetes in 2001, Bec Johnson is the CEO of the Type 1 Diabetes Family Centre, a non-profit in Stirling that is the first centre of its kind in Australia. Bec’s mission is to fundamentally change diabetes care in Australia for the better.
Winner of the 2020 Business News 40 under 40 People’s Choice and HBF Community/Non-Profit/Social Enterprise Awards for her leadership at the Family Centre, Bec holds qualifications in Law and Arts, a Masters in Public Health, and a Diploma of Business (Governance). She is an Associate Fellow of the Australasian College of Health Services Management, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Community Directors, a Fellow of Leadership WA and the only Australian to have been selected as one of the 100 Fellows of the global Facebook Community Leadership Program.
Beyond her professional achievements, Bec has swum solo across the 19.7-kilometre Rottnest Channel four times, sailed across the Atlantic, and become a SCUBA dive guide to show the community at large that a life with type 1 diabetes can be a life without limits.