Lisa Cox

Lisa Cox

Greater Brisbane Area
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Multiple Full-Service Advertising Agencies

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    Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership Development, Public Speaking, Brand Consulting, Business Consulting, Public Relations, Advertising, Brand Marketing, Marketing Consulting, and Corporate Events

About

I aid businesses and industries in comprehending and incorporating disability inclusion into their practices and content. My intimate understanding of the challenges that lie within this path fuels my dedication.

Motivated by a fierce aspiration to revolutionize disability representation in popular culture, I integrate my professional expertise in advertising, marketing, media, branding, and communications with my lived experiences of disability.

Being an impassioned advocate for change, my focus is always on finding practical solutions. To this end, I have partnered with leading organizations, both nationally and internationally, and like-minded individuals, within the disability community, to effect tangible change.

My mission to challenge stereotypes, shift societal attitudes, and reshape the narrative surrounding disability is the driving force behind my commitment to motivate, educate, provoke thought, and engender palpable change in disability portrayal in mainstream culture.

As part of Media Diversity Australia, I also collaborate with journalists and communication professionals to ensure that the media is a true reflection of the diverse community it represents. My work has been featured both nationally and internationally, with publications such as The Sydney Morning Herald, FOX, Vogue, CBS, and Huff Post among my contributions.

Given my strong business acumen, I understand that embracing inclusion and diversity is not only ethically right but also yields substantial financial and economic benefits – a concept I expanded on in my TEDx talk.

I invite all change-makers to join me in my endeavour to ensure that the content created across various media more accurately mirrors the audience it serves. I'm represented by Saxton Speakers Bureau and to send all enquiries there: https://www.saxton.com.au/speakers/lisa-cox

💬 “Every female needs to hear Lisa Cox present. Her story, optimism, and unwavering determination are truly inspiring. Lisa is helping to create a new culture of women confident, capable, and courageous!” Sophee Southall, Editor & Travel Blogger, Happiness Hunter

🏆 2021 Gold Stevie, International Business Awards, Comms Professional

2022 Achievements:
✨Thought Leader of the Year by an international panel of jurors
✨ 1st recipient of Australian Awards, Excellence in Leadership (QLD), individual identified as having a disability
✨ Top 50 Small Business Leaders, Inside Small Business

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Experience

  • Multiple Full-Service Advertising Agencies

    Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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    Australia

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      International (Australian base)

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    Australia

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    Brisbane, Australia

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    Australian agencies

Education

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Publications

  • ‘My legs don’t work but my credit card does’: The huge demo marketers are ignoring

    Mumbrella

    Lisa Cox was a few years into her advertising career when in 2005 she collapsed at Melbourne Airport having suffered a massive brain haemorrhage.

    After multiple surgeries, extensive rehabilitation and months in and out of hospital, Cox got back to work – but with a very different focus.

    “I knew I couldn’t change my disability, but I could help to change the industry that was such a big part of telling me that my life was now worthless.”

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  • Why disability inclusion costs MUCH less than you think

    Kochie's Business Builders

    One thing you will notice when discussing the inclusion of people with disabilities in the workforce is that business leaders always think it will cost more money to be inclusive than it actually does. In fact, in most cases, changes in the workplace are so minor that they might as well be free, writes disability advocate Lisa Cox.

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  • Viewing life from both sides of the wheelchair

    Sydney Morning Herald

    The senior journalist scanned me with scepticism and momentarily dropped her professional poker-face.

    With raised eyebrows and poorly concealed disbelief, she ushered me into the studio for filming.

    But my excitement was dulled somewhat by the fact that the studio in which we were filming had no wheelchair accessible toilet.

    While I'm used to such inconveniences, upon reflection of this seemingly trivial matter, I later realised that this was a glaring metaphor for how the…

    The senior journalist scanned me with scepticism and momentarily dropped her professional poker-face.

    With raised eyebrows and poorly concealed disbelief, she ushered me into the studio for filming.

    But my excitement was dulled somewhat by the fact that the studio in which we were filming had no wheelchair accessible toilet.

    While I'm used to such inconveniences, upon reflection of this seemingly trivial matter, I later realised that this was a glaring metaphor for how the greater Australian media industry consider the wider disability community.

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Courses

  • Diploma of Business (Entrepreneurship)

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  • Integrative Nutrition

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  • News Limited Award School

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  • Swinbourne University - School pf Design and Computer Science - Photoshop & Illustrator

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  • Bachelor of Arts (Media)

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  • Bachelor of Business (Communications)

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Honors & Awards

  • Changemaker of the Year (Finalist)

    Woman of The Year - Marie Claire

  • Female Thought Leader of the Year (Silver)

    Stevie Awards for Women in Business

  • Top 50 Small Business Leaders

    Inside Small Business

  • 2021 GOLD STEVIE® WINNER - Communications Professional of the Year

    @TheStevieAwards

  • QLD Winner - Australian Awards for Excellence in Women’s Leadership

    Australian Women in Leadership

  • Most Innovative Woman of the Year - Government or Non-Profit (Silver)

    Stevie Awards for Women in Business

  • Social Changemaker of the Year (Silver)

    International Stevie Business Awards

  • Paul Harris Fellow

    The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International

    Awarded "in appreciation of tangible and significant assistance given for the furtherance of better understanding and and friendly relations among people of the world".

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